Tag: Punta del Este

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 21:04 UTC

  Punta Shopping mall waiting for technical reviews to decide when to reopen

  

  Managers at the Punta del Este shopping mall (Punta Shopping) that went down in flames over the weekend said they were waiting for a technical assessment before deciding when to reopen and which parts.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Punta del Este shopping mall gripped by devastating fire

  

  A shopping mall in the most exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este caught fire Saturday in what Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber dubbed “a disgrace.”

• Saturday, April 30th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Uruguay confirms promising cruise season ahead

  

  Uruguayan tourism authorities have confirmed 143 calls in Montevideo and 40 in Punta del Este for the upcoming cruise season after meetings between a delegation led by Undersecretary Remo Monzeglio with representatives of the cruise industry and authorities of the Port of Buenos Aires, it was reported Friday.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay takes action as climate change threatens waters will advance on coastline

  

  Uruguay's Environment Ministry has launched the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Coastal Zone (PAN Costas) to increase resilience to a rise in the level of the sea, resulting from climate change.

• Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 21:16 UTC

  Putin needs someone to stand up to him, Uruguayan President says

  

  Uruguay's President Luis Lacalle Pou Thursday said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was nostalgic about the USSR and stressed that neither Cuba nor Venezuela was key players in the ongoing armed conflict. Lacalle was also critical of the role the United States was playing, which was not that of a “counterweight”.

• Wednesday, March 23rd 2022 - 09:04 UTC

  Punta del Este needs more schools to accommodate new residents

  

  The exclusive Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este is experiencing an increase in the development and establishment of schools, as migrating inflows of Argentines and also of people from other parts of the country to become permanent residents have put pressure on the demand.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 13:51 UTC

  Argentine boat owners trapped in Punta del Este

  

  Dozens of Argentine-flagged private boats have been left stranded after mooring at the Uruguayan most exclusive port of Punta del Este because there is no COVID-19 corridor for their voyage back home, it was reported.

• Saturday, January 15th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  The most luxurious vacation properties in Uruguay: Up to US$ 250,000 per fortnight

  

  For some years now, luxury vacationers are increasingly enjoying Eastern Uruguay's coastline. Beach towns such as José Ignacio, Manantiales or Miamesque Punta del Este are hosts to thousands of tourists that are giving an air of increasing exclusivity to these places.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 19:54 UTC

  Chilean carriers bound for River Plate skies

  

  LATAM Airlines is to resume services to the Uruguayan beach resort of Punta del Este, in addition to increasing its services between Montevideo and Santiago, it was announced.

• Monday, December 6th 2021 - 09:00 UTC

  Unexpected call of Viking Jupiter to Uruguay; she's scheduled to visit the Falkland Islands

  

  The Atlantic coast resort Punta del Este received on Saturday the first cruise vessel since the start of the pandemic. The expedition cruise Viking Jupiter was scheduled to travel to Buenos Aires, but since it had stopped at Cape Verde islands in Africa, Argentina is demanding a fourteen day quarantine before letting anybody in the country.