NEWS: A three-day demonstration paralyzed development work at the BioTepp plant in Cap-Chat. Protesters denounce the fact that a company in Saint-Nicolas, near Quebec, has won the development contract estimated at nearly two million dollars. The spokesperson for Gaspé workers, Constant Lepage, deplores the economic losses for the region “What are these people doing in the background? Local entrepreneurs need this money to survive and they have the capacity to do this work. “
Meningitis strikes Haute-Gaspésie when a two-year-old baby is urgently transferred to the Laval University Hospital Center to treat a virulent infection. Since the risk of contagion is rather low, we rule out mass vaccination but we promise to put in place all the health measures necessary to protect the population.
Gaspé Cosmétiques ceases its activities in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts for lack of profitability, even after having received $ 500,000 in loans and grants. Twenty people are losing their jobs.
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