Santa Marta, where he led a meeting with mayors and governors of the Caribbean Region, Defense Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón Bueno announced the deployment throughout the country of 400 thousand soldiers and police to provide security and transparency in the electoral debate 30th October. Rapid Details Concerning Barranquilla ·Barranquilla is Colombia’s 4th largest city. ·Barranquilla [...]
A Unesco fellowship will allow a young Italian researcher in Europe to know the complete works of the late Alvaro Cepeda Samudio Caribbean writer. “It seems illogical for a Master as Cepeda Samudio not read in a language different from yours,” said Federica Arnoldi, born 29 years ago, a fellow at the University of Bergamo [...]
Despite high levels of satisfaction that barranquilleros presented at the last public perception survey conducted by ‘Barranquilla how we’, issues such as employment, health, education and security deal an important place in the concerns of residents. This is set to the same survey that included a new module called ‘model city’, which consulted on the [...]
Barranquilla has declared 3 days of mourning after the death of the legendary musician Joe Arroyo on 26th July 2011, as well as renaming a transmetro station in his honour. Born in Cartagena, “El Joe” died at the age of 55 after a month long battle with various medical conditions in Barranquilla. He was [...]
King of heavy metal Ozzy Osbourne to perform in Parque Simon Bolivar in Bogota on April 16, in his first-ever show in Colombia. More details about Ozzy Osbourne in Bogota on inBogotaColombia.com Brief Facts About Barranquilla ·Distributed across the city there are in the region of 1.6 million people that inhabit in Barranquilla. ·Barranquilla is found not [...]
The group-Taca Avianca aircraft made a public offering of its shares worth 500 billion pesos. The Financial Supervisory Authority approved the registration in, the National Registry of Securities and Issuers, Rnve, the sale of the shares. The minimum preferential dividend corresponds to one percent per annum on the subscription price offered for each preferred [...]
A 17-year-old fan of the local Colombian side Cucuta Deportivo was killed while playing in a neighborhood park on Saturday. The following day, his friends and other fans took him to one last game in his coffin. After his funeral, friends paraded the coffin around and then took it to the stadium in honor of [...]
Don’t forget….. Turn off the lights tonight. (Just for an hour!) from 20:30 to 21:30 local time. Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos supports the call for Colombians to turn off the lights for one hour on March 26 and join the global campaign of “Earth Hour” to demonstrate support of the environmental campaign, which is [...]
Colombia is hosting the U20 World Cup and the two main cities of the Colombian Caribbean, Barranquilla and Cartagena, are preparing to be headquarters of the World Cup U-20, which will run from 29 July. “We´ve completed 85 percent of the work, after adjustments requested by FIFA. The stadium, as anyone can see, is about,” said [...]
After 30 years of neglect the new Plaza de San Nicolas is expected to be completed before the end of March 2010 and will hopefully herald a rebirth of the Centro Histórico de Barranquilla. Located adjacent to the church San Nicolas which is considered the first cathedral was Barranquilla and an important element in the [...]