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Puerto Rican industry not in disadvantage

Submitted on 31 August 2007 - 11:18am

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Contradicting the results of a report published by Business Monitor Internacional, Edgardo Fábregas, president of the Puerto Rico Industrials Association, says that “Puerto Rico is not in disadvantage with other countries. I can say that because I know all those jurisdictions”. Some of Puerto Rico’s advantages: - The Andean free trade treaty covers a zone that is still developing for the kind of technologies and drugs being produced today. - Puerto Rico has a regulatory environment better than in any other part of the World. - The local pharmaceutical industry is very sophisticated in the validation, qualification, engineering and laboratory areas. - The industrial infrastructure has a lot of experience.

Unknown source of a fuel spill

Submitted on 31 August 2007 - 11:08am

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Over the waters off the coast of Guayanilla and Guanica floats an undetermined amount of petroleum-based fuel that has started to affect marine life and threatened to cause severe environmental damages to the beaches and the Guanica Dry Forest. The spill, discovered in the early hours yesterday by a Guanica fisherman, covered approximately 3 miles of length and was 500 feet wide; it occurred about 1 ½ mile off the coast. The secretary of Natural and Environmental Resources, Javier Velez Arocho said that the spill is suspected to have occurred Wednesday afternoon.

More funds to fight dengue

Submitted on 31 August 2007 - 10:59am

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The Government activated the Emergency Fund yesterday, to help in the fight against the dengue epidemic affecting the country. At the same time the Department of Health said that it will reinforce the disease watching system in hospitals and emergency rooms. Both measures were announced while the worry for the advancement of the disease keeps growing, and the suspicion, expressed on Monday by federal officials, that seven people might have died of dengue in the past months.

CDC investigates possible hemorrhagic dengue cases

Submitted on 31 August 2007 - 10:53am

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Investigators from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Puerto Rico suspect that seven recent deaths in the Island are due to hemorrhagic dengue fever and they sent the autopsy results to their headquarters in Atlanta to confirm this. The investigators are extremely worried about the epidemic in the Island and said that, if the current tendency continues, it could reach historic numbers.

Puerto Rican shrew

Submitted on 31 August 2007 - 10:45am

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Shrews are small mammals, similar to mice, that live today in North America and Europe, and that populated the Antilles during the Quaternary period (1.8 million years ago until today). The Island Puerto Rican shrew (Nesopontes edithae), according to the book “Biodiversity of Puerto Rico, edited by biologist Rafael L. Joglar, “was a giant among shrews, with the approximate size of a well fed rat”.

System that could end the controversy

Submitted on 29 August 2007 - 10:25am

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Javier Vélez Arocho, secretary of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, proponed the used of the “turbo sail” technology as an alternative to end the controversy between the government, industry and community and environmental groups that oppose the eolic park to be located in Punta Verraco in Guayanilla.

A bat's kingdom

Submitted on 29 August 2007 - 10:23am

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Puerto Rico has 13 of the almost 1,000 of bat species known in the World. These 13 species make up all the non-extinct native land mammals in the Island.

"No guarantees" for pharmaceuticals

Submitted on 29 August 2007 - 10:21am

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Puerto Rico’s position as an important global center for drug manufacture keeps eroding, according to a report published by a London-based consulting firm, Business Monitor International. Although it recognizes the Island’s efforts to strengthen added value activities in the biotechnology sector, it points out that there are no guarantees for pharmaceutical activity in the long term.

En route to association

Submitted on 29 August 2007 - 10:18am

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A group of biologists and scientists met this past weekend to approve the basic principles that create the path for the future creation of a professional association. During the meeting, these professionals in biology and environmental sciences approved rules and chose a committee to work on the process of creating an association.

A scary sign

Submitted on 29 August 2007 - 10:15am

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This 2007 hurricane season is expected to produce, at least, two Category 4 or 5 hurricanes. Puerto Rico should keep an eye on formations coming off the coast of Cape Verde, which are usually the ones that pose a threat to the Island. The most active 45 days of the season started last week and they are expected to go well into September.

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