Businesses and industries in Jalisco are loosing between 200 and 250 million pesos a day as a result of the gasoline shortage, according to Daniel Curiel, the president of the state’s Council of Industrial Chambers.

Confirmed dengue cases in Jalisco quintupled in 2018 compared with 2017, according to the Epidemiology Department of the Jalisco Health Secretariat (SSJ).

The state government has confirmed that the Instituto Jalisciense de la Mujer (Jalisco Institute for Women of IJM) will be incorporated into a new agency with more teeth, able to deal with a wider range of gender issues thanks to a bigger budget.

Christine Walker, who was the “story lady” at Sandi Bookstore before it closed last year, will reopen her popular story and song time in English for young children at the American Society (Amsoc) on the last Saturday of each month.

Filling up one’s tank with precious gasoline isn’t the only reason to wait in line this January.

BOOK CLUB: The next English Book Club meeting will be Thursday, January 24, 10 a.m. at the American Society (Amsoc). Under discussion will be “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer”  by German author Patrick Suskind.