FORTHCOMING

26 Aug. 21:00- YLGS (Young London Goans Social). Picnic at London's Victoria Park and watch the free outdoor movie (The Matrix) at the same time. Further information www.stellascreen.co.uk If interested please e-mail joey-7@talk21.com

27 Aug. 12:30- St Teresa's School, Nairobi. Class of '65. Reunion at Whitehart Lane School. £7 including a free drink, snacks and meal Greg Carvalho or 01245 261302, Felix Cardozo 020 8482 3277 or Tony D'Costa 01293 425644.

3 Sept. 12:30- South East Goans - TROOK Tournament The Belfry Social Club, 100 Plumstead High Street, Plumstead, London SE18. Hilary 020 8317 1966 or 020 8854 4547

5 Sept. 12:00 - 15:00 South East Goans. GET TOGETHER Venue: Goan Cuisine Restaurant, 136 Plumstead High Street, London SE18. Contact Hilary on 8317 1966.

8 Sept. 18:00 - 19:00 YLGS (Young London Goans Social). NEW MEMBERS ONLY. Get-together over coffee. Meet at Charing Cross station. (next to Thistle Hotel) Please don't be shy or hesitate about attending. No membership fee! e-mail marie.pereira@talk21.com Pass the word to Friends and Family!

9 Sept. 12:00- E.A. Customs & Excise Reunion. Church Hall of Our Lady of Assumption, opp. 282 Links Road, Tooting, SW 17. For further details contact Conrad Monteiro 020-8715 4034.

Help A Poor Child. 20 th Anniversary Gala Ball, Harrow Leisure Centre POSPONED TO 28 Oct.

10 Sept. 11:00-18:00. Annual Festival of Our Lady of Health Vailankani. Cruise the river Thames on the Princess Royal. Rev. A.T. Moraes 020-8977 5682.

17 Sept. Goan Association (UK) Trook Tournament. ATC Hall South Wimbledon. Jacinto Fernandes 020-8542 5427

23 Sept. TIATR, TIATR, TIATR, Londonache famad teatrist ani kantorist fuddem sorleat adum tumchea mucar ek gomoticho ani comicacho tiatr zachem naum “ GUSPOT “. Vo tiatr zatolo, jistuc sanghecha 5 ora, St Monica's Hollant, Green Lanes, Palmers Green. London. For further details please call: Rosy - 020 8352 9450, Ida - 020 8881 2921, Gregg – 020 8907 0545

24 Sept. Mapuca Union Feast. Bishop Thomas Grant School, Beltrees Grove, Streatham, London SW16.

7 Oct. Young Ones "Bow-Tie" function. Church Hall of Our Lady & St Philip Neri, Sydenham.

8 Oct. Goan Association (UK). Senior Citizens lunch. £5. ATC Hall. Nina Pinto 020-8767 0663 or Bernie Gracias 020-8723 1322

28 Oct. 19:00 - 03:00 Help A Poor Child. 20 th Anniversary Gala Ball, Harrow Leisure Centre. Derrick Pereira 020-8952 8899

COMMUNITY NEWS

NEWS FLASH! THE HAPC GALA BALL HAS HAD TO BE POSTPONED FROM 9 SEPT. TO 28 OCT.

The Young London Goans Social [YLGS] has set up an electronic discussion list. To join, write to YLGS-owner@egroups.com or go to the eGroups site at http://www.egroups.com/invite/YLGS and click the "JOIN" button. The aim of the society is to organise social activities for London's Young Goans aged 18 and over. Membership is free.

Congratulations to Rabi Martins who has been selected as the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Luton South for the next General Election. Rabi is currently a Lib Dem Councillor in Watford and has a distinguished record of serving the Community. He was formerly President and Chairman of G.O.A. UK and member of the UK unit of the Save Goa Campaign.

From Flavio Gracias: The Sports Day, which was part of the Goa Day celebrations, was highly successful.

DEATHS

20 Aug. Goa. MAGDALENA FERNANDES (MAGDU) (Ex-Dar-Es-Salaam) Wife of late Basilio ; mother of late Lena/Bartholomew, Teddy/Thomas (London), Victor/Anita, Frieda/Antonio;

21 Aug. Goa. DR MANUEL DIAS, husband of Dr Elvira, father of Victor/Orfelinda (USA), Dr Luis (London).

22 Aug. Goa. ANTONINHO D'SILVA, brother of Claudina/late Camilo Gomes (London), late Lucas D'Silva/Laetitia 'Silva, etc.

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

The BJP had its say when CM Sardinha relieved Mauvin Godinho of the Revenue portfolio on August 18.

A police station for women has been opened in Panjim, housed in the Old Goa Medical College Complex

Jack Straw will visit India from Sept.3. He will be followed by Peter Hain, Geoff Hoon, and Tony Blair “may also make a visit.”

Goa is planning to diversify its focus from the beach tourism. See:
http://www.goanews.com/22aug00.htm

The Institute Menezes Braganza will hold a day-long 'Women Convention 2000" in Panjim on August 26.

The report and photographs of Bonderam, the traditional Divar Harvest Festival (20. Aug) are at: http://www.goacom.com/culture/bonderam/ and http://www.goa-world.net/bonderam/

Leander Paes, the Grand Slam Tennis doubles champion will carry India's flag at the Sydney Olympic Games.

It is reported that many of Goa's hospital patients resist being discharged because they "find hospital a better place to survive".

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

13085 Plastic Free Goa - A Campaign Is Born! Mario Mascarenhas.

13077 Report on the East African Goan Convention, Dar-es-Salaam, 17th - 20th Aug. Rene Barreto.

13069 Blessed Fr. Joseph Vaz. Ulysses Menezes

13016 Goa Day, August 20. Rene Barreto explains the significance and purpose.

13008 Teacher Exchange Programme UK-Goa Computer education in Schools. David Futers

12985 Anjuna Beach Sand Depredation. Tim de Mello

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

*18 Aug. Coastweek. Mombasa based Architect Joe Menezes struck Gold with his design for the Mombasa Secondary School for the Physically Handicapped. The award was made by the Architectural Association of Kenya. 235 words

*18 Aug. Navhind Times. A private hospital with the latest equipment to meet the demand of cardiac patients has been inaugurated in Margao. 401 words

*18 Aug. Business Line. Evian natural spring water, costing Rs. 83 a litre is to be marketed in Goa. Perrier and Volvic will follow.

*19 Aug. Guardian. Sun bathing: …Getting a tan is not an issue for dark-skinned people; indeed, being dark is generally considered ugly and denotes the working class, just as it used to in Europe… the first charter flights into Goa in the early 1980s, local women campaigned on the beaches to get westerners to put their bikini-tops back on.661 words

*20 Aug. The Herald, Navhind Times and Gomantak Times reported on the wordwide celebration of Goa Day and paid tribute to Rene Barreto of London for conceiving the idea and to Basilio Magno for having composed the theme song "Proud to be a Goan."

*20 Aug. Scotland on Sunday. In the context of the murder of backpacker Kirsty Jones in Thailand, Katie Grant narrates her experiences in Goa in 1982 - of the risks lone women backpackers encounter and the death of a French National she shared a house in Goa with. 738 words.

*21 Aug. Times of India. Domino's Pizza plans to expand to Goa by the end of this year. 361 words

*22 Aug. Gomantak Times. Senior Citizens in Goa are to get State health insurance cover. At the Goa meeting of the Forum for Senior Citizens of India they were advised not to transfer property to their children when they are alive. 440 words

*22 Aug. Navhind Times. Britain becoming centre for expanding Indian IT skills. Close to 10,000 people from the Indian subcontinent arrived in Britain on the basis of work permits last year, a fourfold increase since 1990. 495 words.

*23 Aug. Times of India. Tourism in Goa drawing to a close?
http://www.goacom.com/news/news2000/aug/msg00074.html

*23 Aug Herald (Goa) Kumudini Usgaoncar, the author of the new book, Traditional Taste of Goa, insists that Goans have tasty traditional vegetarian recipes. In the book she presents an array of 333 recipes from traditional Hindu Goan cuisine ( 715 words)