FORTHCOMING

1st Oct. 19:30- St. Matthew's Church, 37 Norwood High Street, Norwood. St. Joseph High School, Arpora re-union . Fr. Zeferino D'Souza, Principal of the school is visiting London. Mass followed by a get-together. Tel. 0181 670 1765

2 Oct. 19:00-23:00. Beckenham. Charity Dance. Premises double booked! POSTPONED TO 3 Oct.

3 Oct. 14:00-20:00. Kelsey Park School, Manor Road, Beckenham. Featuring the 'GUAVA GROOVE' Band and Disco in aid of the Pereira Coutinho Old Age Home in Divar, Goa. £7.50 Adults £4 Children (12 and under). Bring your own drinks. A meal will be provided. Cancy Coutinho 0181-854 6636; Jane Gracias 0181 543 5454; Leslie Pinto 0181 644 9588. Donations to Jane Gracias, 0181 543 5454

3 Oct. 15:00 Mass at St Anslems, Southall.

3 Oct. 12:45- Majorda Union. Wood Green. Eulogio Braganza. 0181-888 9109

4 Oct. 18:30 Meditation. 34 Potterne Close, Castlecombe Drive, London SW19

10 Oct. 15:00 Mass + Novena + Get-together. Asian Chaplaincy.

10 Oct. 13:00 Goan Trook Tournament. ATC Hall Wimbledon. Jacinto Fernandes
0181-542-5427

24 Oct. Colva Union Feast. Bishop Thomas Grant School, SW16. 0181-674 2266

31 Oct. 15:00 Konkanim Mass + Get-together. Asian Chaplaincy.

2 Oct. 09:30-10:00 BBC 2 TV. Café 21. Chat show. Are the mainstream political parties catering for young Asians?

Some of you are forwarding this newsletter regularly to friends. Why don't you send me their e-mail addresses and I will add them to the mailing list. Current membership of this list is 340. Can it hit 500 by the end of the year?

DEATHS

Deaths: 13 Sep. New Malden, Surrey. COLEEN BRAGANZA, 28, of asthma. Daughter of Rui and Zita. Sister of Jeanette and Karen-Marie.(ex. Mombasa).

23 Sep. Bahrain. CLYDE COUTINHO, 23, drowned at a poolside picnic party organised by the Young Goans Club and attended by about 300 members.24 Sep. Majorda. JOSEPHINE PEREIRA (JUJU). Daughter of Deudita/ late Joao, sister/ sister in law of Santano/ late Merciana, John/ Lily (Paris), Violet/ Alan (London), and Xavier (London).

27 Sep. Toronto. FRANCIS BELLO, 73. Husband of Iris. Father of Valerie Gilhooly /Patrick, Trevor/Herminia, Jude /Twila, Sandra/Aslam and Reginald

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

*The Express on Sunday, 12 Sep. (482 words) The House of Commons is set to hire a new chef specialising in Indian cuisine to meet the growing demand for baltis, tandoori chicken and prawn vindaloo…Keith Vaz, the Home Office minister, likes a prawn curry…

*Coastweek (Mombasa), 24 Sep. (268 words) http://www.coastweek.com/news28.html East African Goan Convention - Goan Food Festival, Fashion Show, Concert, Cabaret and Ball. By Neta Peal.

Daily Mail, 24 Sep. Robin Bland swore, smoked in the toilets, played loud music, intimidated cabin crew and threatened to 'sort out' the captain after he was refused more alcohol on the Monarch Manchester to Goa flight in Jan. this year. He was jailed for 15 months.

*Associated Press. World News. 24 Sep. (435 words) An appeal by a British couple jailed in Goa for 10 years for possessing cannabis will be heard next month.

*The Dominion - New Zealand, 28 Sep. (242 words) Eoghan McBride has agreed to be extradited to India to face trial on charges relating to the running of a child pornography and prostitution ring from an orphanage in Goa.

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

For the first time in six years, Goa will not have its own pavilion for promoting tourism at the World Travel Mart, to be held in London in November. Goa will promote itself from the India pavilion,.

A new cyber café, Dot.com has opened at Miramar with e-mail, internet surfing, and voice mail.

The Goa Gambling Act would be amended to accommodate casinos, which can attract high-spending tourists to Goa, according to Tourism minister Churchill Alemao. Goa will have two golf courses he said. He claimed that golf courses could be maintained with just rainwater.

The village of Arpora in Goa is now home to designer Wendell Rodericks' new restaurant, Aubergine. The cuisine is French-Goan fusion, like prawns sautéed in cream, feni, French bisque and green chillies, mixed cheese soufflé and prawn potato chops. A meal for two averages Rs 500 without drinks.

The convenor of Road Accident Victims Trust, Jerome Mendes of Leonora's, Verna has sanctioned and installed traffic signals at St Jude's High School, Betalbatim

Quiteria de Noronha e Costa who gave birth to a `miracle child' and provided the test case for the beatification of Fr Joseph Vaz died on 27 Sept. after being bed-ridden for eight years. On 6 July 1993, Pope John Paul II declared the birth to be a miracle wrought by the intercession of Fr Joseph Vaz and beatified him in Colombo on 21 January, 1995 Goa Govt. to take over fields kept fallow for more than 3 years.

Visit Goanet at www.goacom.com/goanet. Some of the highlights:

7888 Lenny Barretto: Canonisation of Fr. Joseph Vaz
7871 Sachin Naik: Goans and Konkani
7794 Eustaquio Santimano: Goa to promote casino culture to boost tourism.
7777 Manuel Terreiro: UAE Goanetters Meet.
7781 Prof. Teotonio R. de Souza: Re. World Goan Convention
7767 Prof. George Pinto: World Goan Convention
7771 Tony Borges: Young Goans (Bahrain) picnic party ends in tragedy
7753 Aires Rodrigues: Oh to be an Indian!