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Cozumel News June 7th, 2014: Trashy Little Group “World Ocean Day, United Against Dengue Campaign starts June 9th, The Cozumel Planetarium is breaking ground this week, The project of promoting Cozumel is making strides, and Borden Milk is removed from Cozumel store shelves.

WORLD OCEANS DAY THIS SUNDAY June 8th – Recognized by the United Nations in 2008, June 8 is the official day for people around the world to celebrate and honor the ocean. The Trashy Little Group is hosting a beach clean up tomorrow. We will meet at the RASTA BAR at 9:00am and head just north of there to the clean up site. Please come out and join us for as little or as long as you like! We have bags, gloves, ice water, and prizes for volunteers! Subject to change if we have bad weather, but here’s hoping it will be a nice morning. See you there! – Kathy Watts

La Rumba Cozumel

    United Against Dengue

To avoid spreading dengue cases on the island during this rainy season, the municipal government will launch  the First “Descacharrización” Campaign called “United Against Dengue”,  which is planned to start in Colonia Emiliano Zapata this June 9th.

The Director General of Social Development, Marilyn Rodriguez Marrufo said that this campaign will cover the 30 colonies that make up the urban part of the island to collect all kinds of unwanted appliances, furnishings and  gadgets. They ask that citizens  get these items outside of their homes.  In addition to this, vector staff of the State Secretariat of Health (SESA) will enter every house to fumigate and sprinkle abate in places that need it.

The Work team:

A total of 63 people integrated into seven teams of nine that include 15 members of the Military Garrison and 15 from the Naval sector.  He explained that the program will last about two months from June 9th to  July  30th.  They will work the hours 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.  Monday to Friday.  The gadgets, appliances, pottery and other items collected will be transported to the Municipal landfill.

Cozumel Planetarium

The laying of the foundation stone of the Cozumel Planetarium should take place this week. The Cozumel Planetarium will be made possible by an investment of  about 60 million pesos from the State  Government  and the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). The project will be located on one hectare of land on Claudio Canto Avenue between Rafael E. Melgar Avenue and October 8, better known as the 65th Avenue.In the later part of May, Victor Manuel Alcérreca Sánchez, head of Quintanarroense Council for Science and Technology (CQCyT) visited   Cozumel, to meet with Mayor, Fredy Marrufo Martin, who explained that certain aspects of the planetarium is included in the Annual Investment Program 2014 (PIA 2014) of the current administration. This Friday,  staff was observed performing logging and clearing of land. This is so exciting for Cozumel, as this will open up a whole new world to the children and youth of the island.

Playa Azul Hotel Restaurant:

Savia Spa at Playa Azul Resort Hotel

Promoting Cozumel

The private sector and Municipal Government are seeking ways to promote the island of Cozumel.Councilman Cesar Trejo Vazquez, who chairs the Committee on Tourism and Ecology, revealed that a request will be made ​​to the Council of Solidarity, to allocate space on Fifth Avenue for the installation of an information module and for billboards  along an area located on the Federal Highway in Solidarity, Cancun, These are some of the ideas that grew out of the Mexico Tourism Tianguis 2014, that took place in Cancun last month.

The information booth that exists now at the Ferry terminal will stay at the same site; they are seeking to have an extra booth at a location with  high tourist traffic, to promote the brand “Cozumel” with printed materials of the island, electronic displays and highly trained people. The module would include more projection screens or monitors in which real images of beaches and reefs are projected, seeking to capture a larger market of visitors to the island. The plan is to have four employees in the booth trained by Cozumel Tourism Department to counteract negative publicity by Playa del Carmen merchants. Cesar Trejo Vazquez indicated the project of installing the billboards on the Federal Highways was also making strides. He will meet with , Luis Alcérreca Balmes, the President of the Employers Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) in Cozumel, who is also promoting the installation of billboards promoting Cozumel.

Borden Milk Removed

(Reported in Por Esto on June 6th, 2014)Cozumel self-service stores removed the Borden Milk from shelves, after learning that they could have been punished for selling it. According to the standards set in the NOM 051, the Federal Government must take measures to make sure that the products traded in the country, meet the requirement  of having necessary information  displayed on the label or container, for the  consumer’s  protection.   Borden, originated in the United States and has for 150 years been used by  American families and select stores in the Mexican market. Sources reported that Borden milk was acquired by Lala and allegedly is produced, packaged  and distribute more in the United States.  The brand was withdrawn from the shelves, mostly because the label  information was  in English and lacked nutritional information and the  number of millimeters in Spanish. In removing the product from their shelves, stores avoided  fines of $650 pesos and penalties of about $3.5 million pesos, had they been caught with excessive quantities of the dairy product.

Playa Azul Beach Club:

  Costa Brava Restaurant