FORTHCOMING

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

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

24 July Goa Musical Society Open Meeting. Mitcham. Contact Paulo Colaco Dias 0181-764 8348 or PauloD@iname.com

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

1 Aug Goan Exhibition & Festival. White Hart Lane School, N 22. Contact Diego Pinto, Darryl Remedios Irene De Mello or Melvyn Fernandes

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

USEFUL INFORMATION

1. Portuguese Nationality. Many Indian Passport holders appear to be unaware that:
a. anyone born in Goa prior to 1962 and/or
b. those with a parent, grandparent or great-grandparent who was born in Goa prior to 1962 are eligible to apply for Portuguese nationality. Paulo Colaco Dias, 0181-764 8348 PauloD@iname.com has done the Portuguese to English translation of the Portuguese Nationality law, which can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/8537/PortNatLaw.htm
Portugal allows their nationals to hold dual nationality though the India currently does not.

2. The Civil Service Careers fair for Ethnic Communities was held at Westminster Central Hall on 5 July. British or EC nationals who are graduates have been invited to apply for senior positions in the quota
reserved for the ethnic communities. Applicants have to be graduates and qualifications gained overseas are recognised. Aires Rodrigues, 0181-520 4295, aires@mcmail.com has agreed to provide further information.

DEATHS

Sangolda-Guirim: COSMO FLORENCIO D'SOUZA (Ex-Uganda), husband of Julie, father of Celly/Zelie, Brian/Jasmine (Dubai), Carmel, Carl/Jocylyn and Anthony, expired on July 1.

Mapusa: LENNY PINTO (Manager-Sita World Travel, Goa), husband of Xavita, father of Lovell, Warren, Dr Gretchen and Calen, expired on July 4.

MESSAGES

I am a Goan journalist based in Hyderabad, India, anxious to get in touch with my Goan High School mates in Mombasa. I studied there from std VI till my Sr. Cambridge in 1967. LIONEL MESSIAS. leo.hyd@gnhyd.globalnet.ems.vsnl.net.in

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

1. The Goa Assembly session started on 7 July. Some of the measures announced:
a. The tourism policy aims at shifting the emphasis from `quantity' tourism to `quality' tourism to attract `high value' tourists to the state.
b. The virtual ban on creating any new posts in the public sector
c. The reduction of retirement age to 58.
d The vigilance department is to weed out corruption in government departments and the anti-corruption bureau in the police department is being re-activated and strengthened
2. Luizinho Faleiro battles for survival in Goa 1 From Deccan Herald.com--- Thursday July 8 1999 Faleiro battles for survival By Devika Sequeira
The new Congress Government completes a month in office on July 9 But the mood is far from celebratory in Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro s camp …
3. The strength of the Congress Legislature party has gone up to 23 with both the UGDP MLAs--Suresh Parulekar (Calangute) and Jose Phillip D'Souza (Vasco da Gama)--joining the Congress on July
4. From August 1, 1999, the telephone code for accessing all places in Goa from outside India will be 00 91 832. The old code for South Goa (834) will be discontinued after 15 August 1999.
5. Antonio Jorge Jacob de Carvalho, Portuguese Consul General, Bombay, states that Goa could attract large investments from Portuguese investors in infrastructure development, provided the state is promoted abroad as a trade destination.
6. The Reliance-Salgaocar Power Limited's Sancoale plant went operational on 5 July. The naphta-based plant will sell 40 mega watts of electricity to the Goa government, from its total capacity of 48 mega watts.

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

5990 and 5873. Reviews of BBC 2 programme Paradise Lost?

5989 Report of the Edgar Fernandes Campaign vigil.

5923 Philip Stewart on backpackers and his daughters plight in Goa.

5922 Details of the Civil Services Careers fair at Westminster Central Hall

5792 Luizinho Faleiro's smoke screen

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

1. Leander Paes won both the mens and mixed doubles final at Wimbeldon on the same day, Sunday 4 July.

2. The Edgar Fernandes Campaign attracted wide media attention on radio and TV with live coverage of the vigil outside the Maltese High Commission on 7July. Imran Khan, the lawyer in the Stephen Lawrence case has agreed to act in the case and there have been immediate developments. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Paul Condon and Foreign Secretary Robin Cook have separately agreed to meet to discuss the issues of the Campaign.

3. BBC East TV broadcast, Paradise Lost focussed on the environmental aspects of tourism in Goa. To express your opinion, visit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/forums/cgi?fid=3&pg=forum You will need to register (free) to use the site.

4. From The Herald (Goa) 6 July. Goans in London are preparing for a round of celebrations--village feasts, Goan socials, pilgrimages and even events for single Goans, according to a newsletter put out in London …