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Dozens of fishes founded dead in the artificial Lake Ecological Park Zazil of Chetumal. Municipal authorities attribute this to the intense heat.

Because of the health risk caused by the presence of the human influenza virus AH1N1 in the state and for the purpose of maintaining the workforce of our organization and encouraging the sustainability of our economic activity, various grants, tax incentives and benefits of all citizens and taxpayers of the State will be awarded, informed the State Secretary of Finance, Fredy Marrufo Martin.

This is based on the decree published in the Periódico Oficial del Estado No. 37 Extraordinario, which came into force on May 8 this year, which among others, provides that taxpayers who have to pay the payroll tax there will be be a stimulus consisting of a tax allowance of 30 per cent tax for May, June and July 2009.

Taxpayers forced to pay the payroll tax will have the option to defer the payment of this contribution for April, May and June 2009, and can settle each in 5 equal parts during August to December of this year.

The Municipality of Othon P. l White joined the effort by the Ministry of Education of Quintana Roo to thoroughly cleanse the schools of this city, prior to the return to classes of about 50 thousand students from the basic levels.

To avoid job losses in the northern zone of the entity arising from the healthcare contingency, the president of the Mexican Caribbean Tour Operators, Doris Mingüer Alcocer, proposed to the Municipality of Othon P. Blanco and the State Secretariat of Tourism (Sedetur) that they create scholarships for experts in the tourism and restaurant industry in the north to come to Chetumal to train their counterparts in the south of Quintana Roo.

The Othón P. Blanco City Cemetery is ready for some 2,500 visitors this Mother's Day, the date on which families gather to visit the final resting place of the one who gave them life.

Juan de Dios Buenfil Durán, cemetery manager, said that because of the influenza virus, the chapel where mass has been celebrated for some years was closed, but the facilities are ready for the occasion.