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FORTHCOMING

2 July 19:30 Meditation + Mass. Asian Chaplaincy.

4 July 13:00-20:00 Goan Connextion (Singles) Social. Tooting, SW17. Contact Jude Lobo jjlobo@clara.net 0181-770 3541 or Raymond Lobo 0181-654 0268 asap.

4 July 15:00 Mass at St Anselms, Southall

5 July BBC2. 19:30-20:00. In-depth look at "the devastating effects of tourism on Goa."

7 July Westminster Central Hall. First Civil Service Fair aimed at the Ethnic minority.

7 July 16:30-17:30 Edgar Fernandes Campaign. Vigil/Demonstration. Maltese High Commission , 36-38 Piccadilly, London W1 (Tube: Green Park). Contact: Karl Lewis 0171-267 0823. See Supplement

18 July Tivimnenses Association Feast. Contact Norma Menezes 0181-771 4457

18 July Bakuli Reunion (Uganda Goans) Contact Tony Lobo 0181-542 0528 or Edmund Dias: edias@northwilts.gov.uk

25 July Parra Social. Contact Raymond Lobo 0181-654 0268

1 Aug Goan Exhibition & Festival. White Hart Lane School, N 22. Contact Diego Pinto (tel. 0181-767 0663), Irene De Mello or Flavio Gracias (tel. 0181-723 1322)

27 Aug Asian Chaplaincy. Lourdes Pilgrimage. Contact Derek Gomes 0171-263 5203

29 Aug G.O.A. Sports Day. White Hart Lane School. N 22. Contact Peter Rodrigues 0181-399 4883

COMMUNITY NEWS

Goan Association (UK)
The new Committee, elected on 23 May 1999 is as follows: President: Flavio Gracias, 76 Middleton Avenue, Greenford, Middlesex UB6 8BS, Tel 0181 -723-1322, Fax 0181-578-7548 Vice President: Diego Pinto Asst. Finance Dir: Felix Pereira. Social Dir: Irene De Mello. Welfare Dir: Frank Carvalho. Property Dir: Claude Rapose. Asst. Property Dir: Cyril Rapose. Public Rel. Dir: Melvyn Fernandes. Planning Dir: Darryl Remedios. Company Secretary: Bernie Gracias

SCOGO has been wound up. Its responsibilities have been assumed by the Goan Association (UK).

DEATHS

Majorda: MARIA NATALINA MORAES (Ex-Nairobi), relict of Francisco, expired on June 19.

Porvorim: ESMERIA PINTO E CORREIA, (B 3-6-1906), wife of late Gaspar Condilaco, mother of late Apolin, Domnic/Brenda (UK), Anthony/Bridget (Kenya), Cursin/Maria (Kenya). Expired June 21

Anjuna: VENANCIO LUIS FRANCIS D'SOUZA (Ex-Mitchell Cotts, Kenya), Expired June 24

Assagao ANA GRACIA DITOSA D'SILVA NOBAY (Ex-Mombasa) Relict of late Theodore Nobay. Mother of Napolean, Rudolf and Romeo (Bob), expired June 27

NEWS HEADLINES
( mainly from Joel D'Souza in Goa, courtesy of GOACOM, e-mail: goanow@sancharnet.in )

Assembly elections took place on June 4. Congress won 21 of the 40 seats and have formed the Government. Luizhino Faleiro is CM. Dr Wilfred D'Souza won the Saligao seat for the Goa Rajiv Congress Party. However, the expectation is that this Government will collapse within months.

CM Faleiro has stripped the Chief Secretary of most of his powers and requested the Central Government to replace him.

A BBC journalist filed a complaint with the Police of being raped by two men whilst on holiday in Goa. The accused were arrested but the victim is too traumatised to visit Goa for the trial. The culprits are therefore likely to freed.

GOANET
(www.goacom.com/goanet. Some of the highlights)

5547 Milton Rodrigues (UK) elected President of Goans International.

5520 Direct Portugal to Goa air links awaited.

5499 Sunday Observer, Dar es Salaam features Dr Willie Magno De Mello Trust founded by an American Hospital in honour of the Dr from Dar who died in the US in 1997.

5379 UK TV series Holidays from Hell features Calangute hotel.

5272 SCOGO (UK) provides new life to Goan villages. Goa newspaper report.

5199,5197,5108,5100,5099 Invaluable information on tracing family roots in Goa.

5164 Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupati make Grand Slam history by winning the French Tennis Doubles.

5025 Text of Independent front page article on Claude Moraes regarding the Euro elections.

4936 Andreas Reichmanis, now in Germany and having attended Goan High School, Mombasa, 1962-66 as the only white pupil, would like to contact his school friends. pacificocean@tourism.de

4935. BJP's party millennium blueprint for Goa includes developing Goa as an international shopping centre on par with Dubai and making it a plastic-free state.

4905 Looking for an unusual gift? From a list of old books on Goa, Eastern Books of London SW16 are offering an 1878 edition of book by Jose Fonseca for UKP 250.

4882 Goan Institute - San Francisco launch an e-mail list for the bay area Goans.

4826 Reprint of article by Keith Vaz in the Guardian highlighting the lack of Asian senior managers in British industry. Also, Tom and Melba Correia are at 50th place in the Eastern Eye's list of Britain's Richest Asians.

IN THE NEWS
(e-mail eddie@fernandes.u-net.com for the full text of items marked *) .

Alexyz, cartoonist and caricaturist, whose work features widely in the Goan press, is currently visiting UK from Goa. He exhibited at the Siolim Social, the Jubilee room at the House of Commons and the Shell Centre and expects to be in London for another week. He may be contacted at 0181-314 1185.

Independent 26 May. Keith Vaz made Parliamentary history as the first Asian to speak from the Government front bench in the Commons. He was welcomed by MPs on all sides.

The Independent 1 June. Front Page. Headline: One black MP for all Europe. By Colin Brown, Chief Political Correspondent. Excerpt: CLAUDE MORAES could be a lone voice in the European Parliament if he wins a seat in the European elections on 10 June. He is Asian and the European Parliament will be almost wholly white… (Claude Moraes traces his roots to Majorda, Goa) He won!

Evening Standard 29 June: Charles Campion's restaurant review of Cucina, 45a South End Road, NW3 "an eclectic mixture of Mediterranean, British and Asian." Photograph shows the owner, Vernon Mascarenhas (ex-Mombasa).

The Guardian 30 June: Full page colour photograph of bar in Goa. Quotes Lonely Planet guide on Goa "A landmark... thanks to its cheap accommodation, the easy availability of drugs and the over-rated opportunity of getting back to nature by frolicking stark bollock naked on the beach."

Kenya has abolished visa requirements (and fees) from nationals of several European countries inc. UK