FORTHCOMING

11 Nov. 18:30-22:00. ADT College Hall, 100 West Hill, Putney, London SW15. The Goan Musical Society in conjunction with the Wandsworth Arts Festival 2000 presents A Goan Cultural Evening. Music-Song-Dance-Art-Drama presented by dedicated artistes. New attraction: Emiliano's trio from Goa. Also PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION by Iggy Tavares. Few tickets available at the door - please phone to check availability. Kerwin Fernandes: 020 8230 6935 mobile 07941 263 838. Joao Paulo Cota 020 8646 6390 mobile 07941 607 879. Full details at: http://www.geocities.com/g.m.s

19 Nov. 12:30- Moira Association. Feast of Our Lady of Immaculate Conception ATC Hall, 192 Merton Road, South Wimbledon. Music: 'MAZ N CO' Disco: 'SAY ONE DO ONE' Other Entertainment: 'MAGICIAN'. Lots of Prizes. Transport from Bexleyheath Railway Station-11.00 a.m. Price £5 p.p. Contact: Myra Mendes 020-8303 3974.

19 Nov. 12:00 - 20.00. Union of Navelim. Feast of Our Lady of Rosary at Bishop Thomas Grant School, Belltrees Grove, Streatham, London SW16. Music: "Guava Groove", Children's Fancy Dress Competition, raffles etc. Tickets (inc. Snacks & Meal): Members £7 Guests:£9 Children under 12 £3 Children under 16 £5. Contact: Amelia Gomes Tel: 020 8861 2073, Sandra Fernandes-Allen 020 8395 5462 or Maurilio Mergulhao 01634 389777.

26 Nov. 13:30- Fr Agnelo's Day. St. George's Cathedral Southwark. Commencing with Mass.

3 Dec. Mass 12:30. Goan Association (UK). Feast of St. Francis Xavier. ATC Hall, South Wimbledon. Tickets £2 each (limited to the first 100 applicants). Diego Pinto 020-8767-0663 or Bernie Gracias 020 8723 1322

3 Dec. 12:30- South East Goans. St. Francis Xavier. Mass: Our Lady of the Angels & St. Joseph's Church The Friary, Carlton Road, Erith, Kent. Principal Celebrant: Rt. Rev. Bishop Charles Henderson. Dance: 1.15 - 8pm Carlton Hall (next to Church). Music by "ANGELO" one man band & "SAY ONE DO ONE" Disco. Dance Tickets (Includes Meal): - Senior Citizen Member £3, Adult Member £5, Guest £7, Child (under 12) £2. Sharon D'Souza on 020 8301 5242. southeastgoans.d-souza@virgin.net

3 Dec. 12:30- North London Goans Feast of St Francis Xavier. White Hart Lane School Hall, Wood Green, London N22. Holy Mass at 12.30 followed by a social gathering. Tickets: Oboe Noronha 020 8340 0439; Seby D'Silva 020 8245 5463; John Fernandes 020 8881 4579; Tony Gomes 020 8245 1364; Meredith Soares; 020 8803 4173; Manu Fernandes 020 8809 1128.

3 Dec. West London Goans. Feast of St. Francis Xavier. Marc Fernandes 01932 781 221.

3 Dec. Newham Goans. Feast of St. Francis Xavier. Fords Sports Club, Newbury Park, Ilford. Allen Braganza, 0208-472 5629.

3 Dec. 11:15- The Goans from St Anslem's Church, Tooting Bec. Celebration of the Feast of St Francis Xavier. Mass followed by a get-together in the lower Church Hall. Price £4.00 with a meal and music. Contact Edna Moraes-DeSouza 0208 672 1973.

3 Dec. Southampton. Feast Of St. Francis Xavier. Mass (11:00) at St Edmund's Church, Rockstone Place, followed by Entertainment (12:45-19:30), at Springhill Primary School Hall, Milton Road. Parking at New College, next to the Church. Adults £6.50; Children (3-15 Years) £3.50; Under 3 Free. Carlos Couthino, coutinho@lgu.ac.uk

COMMUNITY NEWS

For a comprehensive account of the Goa Schools Computer Project visit the revamped website at http://www.goacom.com/gscp/ Check out the status of schools in your village. Approach your Village organisation to help a listed School. Get a Village School in Goa to forward Community news to the UK Village organisation.

The new Committee formed at the Calangute (London) AGM on 5th Nov. is: President: Rose Remedios; Secretary: Ian Remedios; Treasurer: Keith Ferreira; Members: Jeffrey Fiahlo, Derek Nazareth, Charles Luis and Melvyn Fernandes.

DEATHS

4 Nov. Cuncolim: ALVITO GOMES, husband of Sylvia, father of Alwyn (Germany).

LOOKING FOR

Goan Catholic spinster, 32 years, 5'4", fair, post graduate Doctor invites alliance from Goan/Mangalorean Bachelors preferably from the Middle East, US, Canada, UK or Australia. Mail to: mich0123@yahoo.com

FLIGHT CORNER

29 Oct. Sunday Business: Cut-price holidays to Goa are among the offers from Hayes & Jarvis with departures from Gatwick between 4 and 24 November. £429 per person incl. (£106 discount) for 7 days at the Ronil Royale hotel.

5 Nov. Independent on Sunday. Deals of the Week . Between 30 Nov. - 8 Dec, Somak Holidays (tel:020-8423 3000) is offering 14 nights in the Leela Palace Hotel for £1,239 per person, based on two sharing, inc. flights, transfers and b&b accommodation.

http://www.clippersquaytravel.com has Goa. Dep. Gatwick. 30 Dec. 2wk.. £ 429. Tel. 0870 070 2202

Hays Travel Tel:0870 1200 544 Quote Ref: Travelfind. Gatwick to Goa Dep. 1 Dec. 2w, BB, £249 (2-4sharing)

Package Holidays Direct Tel:0870 0665 566 Quote Ref: Travelfind to Goa Dep 18 Nov. 2w BB £269 (2-4sharing)

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

Tennis superstars, Bjorn Borg, Henri Leconte and Vijay Amritraj were in Goa at a two-day tennis clinic last weekend.

CM Parrikar has given a deadline of 15 November 2000 for all corrupt government officials in the state to resign, after which such persons will be "taken to task".

The controversial Meta Strips factory was the scene of a major accident on 5 Nov. The Company claimed sabotage was the cause but the Police have ruled this out.

The new Goa Police web-site at www.goapolice.org includes guides to tourists, police directory, drug awareness, etc.

At a special sitting of the Goa Assembly on 9 Nov., the BJP Govt. won the Vote of Confidence.

Meherchand Harijan (21) eloped with a 14-year-old girl. This created tension in the locality "as the girl came from a higher caste."

Rita Barbosa of Colva was arrested for assaulting postman Mangaldas Naik with slaps and abusing him with filthy language after he had failed to deliver her mail to her third-floor flat, but instead left it on the ground floor.

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

14448 George Pinto forwards speech, delivered in Rome by Archbishop Henry D’Souza, Calcutta on the relevance of Blessed Joseph Vaz to the Evangelization of Asia today.
14439 Konknni Kendr website Frederick Noronha
14414 Indian Teachers come to England to teach English …Sunday Times article forwarded by rene barreto
14392 Who Will The Goa BJP Go To Bed With Next? Aires Rodrigues
Death of Great Goan Sportsman. A.Veronica Fernandes' tribute to Francisco Xavier D'Souza (Ex-Tanzania)

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

*22 Oct. The Observer. Patricia Rozario will perform a concert of music by Sir John Tavener at St John's, Smith Square, London SW1 on 28 November. Tickets are available from the Tate box office (020 7887 8888).

*31 Oct. Guardian. India starts to count its losses. Exodus: West lures doctors and IT workers …About 18m Indians live abroad, in more than 100 countries. They range from a solitary Roman Catholic priest from Goa on the Cape Verde islands to 1.5m Indians in the US… It is only now, after more recent migrations of Indian doctors to Britain and skilled IT workers to Silicon Valley in the United States, that the world's biggest democracy is beginning to count the cost…605 words

1 Nov. Birmingham Post. BBC Radio 3 Programme from Wexford Opera by Adolphe Adam. "First sung in 1852 it is the fantastic tale of a fisherman in Goa who rescues a beautiful princess from drowning and becomes king for a day". Full details at http://www.wexfordopera.com/2000/king.htm

From Terence Pereira: *1 Nov. Reuters. British Minister Patricia Hewitt asked Indian tech firms and professionals to choose to work in Britain over the United States. 259 words. Full text at: http://cgi.zdnet.com/slink?62711:3932619

*4 Nov. Navhind Times. Ervell Menezes on the compensation claims made by charter tourists on returning to UK. 645 words.

*4 Nov. The Scotsman. Goa with the flow. Goa, once famed as a new-age hippie haven, a place of communal living, crystal healing and all-night druggy beach parties, has gradually transformed into a more sedate holiday destination for young middle-class families, about-to-be-married couples, and blue-rinse pensioners…1508 words

*6 Nov. Evening Standard. Feature on Harry Fernandes, 30, senior receptionist at the London Hilton, Park Lane 429 words.

*7 Nov. Times of India. A major postal racket is in operation in Goa. A gang of workers tamper with the letters with the hope of finding valuable things enclosed…7 per cent of the foreign mail is regularly found to be tampered with… 351 words

9 Nov. Navhind Times. The North Goa hoteliers have blamed the South Goa hoteliers for tarnishing the image of North Goa. "counters at the London airport display the photograph of the grounded River Princess sea vessel, which prompts the tourists bound for North Goa to change their destination to South Goa or to any other destination in India." 707 words.

GoaNow's new issue at http://www.goacom.com/goanow/ Some highlights: How Sardinha lost his kodel; A J Simoes describes the woes of Calangute; the proposed Butterfly Park in Valpoi; Thoddi bhov maimdhesantli khobor, ek kovita ani ek kotha.