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

22 July 20:00-22:00 St Paul's Church, 92 Station Road, London N22. Liturgical music concert conducted by Oboe Noronha. Collection in aid of the Church building appeal. Tel. Oboe 0181-340 0439

24 July 17:45- Goa Musical Society Open Meeting . India Club, 143 The Strand, London WC2.
Contact Paulo Colaco Dias 0181-764 8348 or PauloD@iname.com Details: see below

25 July 15:00 Konkanim Mass + get-together. Asian Chaplaincy

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

1 Aug 12:00- Goan Exhibition & Festival. White Hart Lane School, N 22. Contact Diego Pinto, 0181-767 0663 or Bernie Gracias, 0181-723 1322.

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

29 Aug. 11:15- Goan Association (UK). Sports Day. White Hart Lane School. N 22. Contact Peter Rodrigues 0181-399 4883

Goan Musical Society needs Dancers, Musicians and members for the Choir. We need your commitment to at least one or two practices a month for about 10 months of the year. You are most welcome to join. We also need help with organising events. GMS is already preparing for the next Goan Cultural Celebration, as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival Nov.1999. Updates will be posted in this newsletter. Website: http://www.geocities.com/Broadway/Alley/3387/ e-mail: g.m.s@iname.com

Goan Overseas Digest Issue 7.3, July-Sept 1999. Some of the features: Profile of Eddie Pereira of Kenya (1915-95); The Goan Plot of 1787; Review of a book, Victor Rangel-Ribeiro's, Tivolem and Dr Giese of Fr Joseph Vaz Institute, California on Saint Making. Subscription £6 p.a. or £10 for two years. Wrute to Goan Welfare Association, 6F South Park Road, Wimbeldon, SW16 8ST. godigest@talk21.com

DEATHS

London. 28 June. THOMAS VICTOR CARVALHO (Ex GI, Nairobi, aged 74 years. He is dearly missed by wife Cassy and daughters Cynthia and Susan, sons-in-law Ulric and Ian and 6 granddaughters.

Duler, Goa.4 July. EVARISTO LOURENCO CORREA (Ex Nairobi) Loving husband of Rose, father/ father in law of Reyner/ Barbara and Marcia/John, loving grand father of Vanessa, Deidre, Jeffery and Derrick.

Mapusa. 11 July. MARIA D'SOUZA, wife of Jose Luis, mother of Leslie, Tereza/Paulino (London), Joanita, Lavina/Seby, Zelia (Kuwait).

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

Pope John Paul II is eager to visit India in Oct. or Nov. but the Vatican is uncertain if the Indian Govt. will consent. A formal request is believed to have been made.

Former Union Minister, Eduardo Faleiro, is the Congress candidate for the lone Rajya Sabha (upper House) Goa seat Polling takes place on July 26. He is expected to win.

Concern was expressed in the Assembly at the apparent lack of enforcement of the ban on fishing during the monsoon, devised to give fish the opportunity to spawn. Fisheries minister Churchill Alemao, (a trawler owner) declined to take action and claimed that "the sea is not a lake for fish to remain in".

The Times of India. 14 July. Ruparelia Dhanesh (18), a British citizen was arrested for overstaying in Bombay. The Police said that they would launch a drive to identify other foreigners staying illegally.

Rediff 15 July. Monsoon lashes Goa. Heavy rains are likely in Goa during the next 48 hours. The Southwest monsoon has been vigorous in Konkan and Goa, and active in Madhya Pradesh

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

6131, 6130, 6129, 6117, 6104. Discussion - who is a Ghanti

6127 All-Goa SCOGO cycle race

6122 Konkani goes hi-tech with computerised programme of 3 million words and spell-check facility.

6106 Allow Indian Passport Holders On Charter Flights To Goa Campaign

6115, 6091 Ration cards scheme in Goa

6105, 6092, 6068 Young Goans of North America plan Millennium Party in Goa.

6070, 6044, 6007 Reactions to the Edgar Fernandes Campaign - Malta House Vigil

6045, 6046, 6047 Article by David Futers and Malcolm Muir on the Computers for Goa Schools Project and the involvement of SCOGO

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

The Sunday Telegraph, 11 Jul. 1175 words. Headline: Going, Going, Goa. Byline: Has tourism really ruined Goa? After 16 years, former backpacker Paul Gogarty returns to his favourite corner of India and finds that, amid the mayhem, much of the old magic has survived.
Quotes: I recovered from the shock of Bombay only when I arrived at Colva, a sleepy Goan village with a smattering of guest-houses dwarfed by an endless white sand beach ...
But most disturbing of all was Goa's continuing unwillingness to tackle the litter problem. I don't think I saw one rubbish bin on, or near a beach in my travels along the coast…
It does not take long to be reminded of what, despite all the changes, makes Goa special.
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The Sunday Telegraph, 4 Jul. 816 words. Patricia Rozario talks to Frances Welch. Extract: the Indian-born soprano Patricia Rozario is the muse of the composer John Tavener, who wrote Song for Athene for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, and who has now written a second tribute, Eternity's Sunrise 1, specially for Rozario to sing. Rozario is devoutly religious. She was raised by Roman Catholic parents in Bombay. Her family was originally from Goa… [e-mail eddie@fernandes.u-net.com for the full text]
She also featured in The Independent 9 Jul; Irish Times, 6 Jul, 2 Jul, 30 Jun, 26 Jun, etc.

London Evening Standard 5 Jul. Get to Goa in good company. Everybody should take a trip to India. No other country assaults all the senses at once in quite the same way: dizzying clashing colours, engulfing wafts of jasmine and dried cow dung…

Financial Times ; 26 Jun. 1558 words. A hedonist haven that seems to strike at random: Visitors go in search of paradise but some end up emaciated by a harsh prison regime.Amy Louise Kazmin finds a stay in Goa can be 10 years for the unlucky few
[e-mail eddie@fernandes.u-net.com for the full text]

Guardian, 25 June. Mario Pereira, 26, of Edmonton, London … pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey to the charge of murdering musician Michael Manson … The trial will start on Nov. 8.