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07-24-2008, 04:40 PM
Education Minister Alejandrina German has admitted that though the Ministry of Education contracts with milk suppliers stipulates that protein levels in the milk should be 3.3% or higher the Ministry doesn't adhere to this parameter. According to German, the suppliers are now following the lower protein level of 2.64% supposedly authorized by the Innovation in Biotechnology and Industry Institute. Hoy reports that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Fund (FAO) sets the minimum standard at 3.3%.
In related news, yesterday the Ministry of Education inaugurated six new schools in Santo Domingo that were built with an RD$193 million investment. The schools were built in the communities of Los Garcias, La Guayiga, Los Alcarizos, La Victoria, El Almirante and San Luis. German said that six new schools were part of the 73 schools that would be inaugurated between 2008 and 2009. The schools will serve a total of 5,000 children.
TV investigative journalist Nuria Piera had revealed that the company the Ministry awarded 40% of school breakfast drink supplies had protein levels much lower than even the 2.64% level now indicated by the Ministry as acceptable for the school breakfast drink. Piera earlier had published a report on the luxury vacation home the minister has built in Jarabacoa mountain recreational area.
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In related news, yesterday the Ministry of Education inaugurated six new schools in Santo Domingo that were built with an RD$193 million investment. The schools were built in the communities of Los Garcias, La Guayiga, Los Alcarizos, La Victoria, El Almirante and San Luis. German said that six new schools were part of the 73 schools that would be inaugurated between 2008 and 2009. The schools will serve a total of 5,000 children.
TV investigative journalist Nuria Piera had revealed that the company the Ministry awarded 40% of school breakfast drink supplies had protein levels much lower than even the 2.64% level now indicated by the Ministry as acceptable for the school breakfast drink. Piera earlier had published a report on the luxury vacation home the minister has built in Jarabacoa mountain recreational area.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#11)