FORTHCOMING

From GOA Public Relations Director, Melvyn Fernandes, melrose@dial.pipex.com The GOA Brainstorming Session this Friday (29 Sept.) will be rescheduled to possibly mid- October. Thanks to all who attended the previous sessions.

1 Oct. 12:45- Majorda Feast. Mass followed by a Social. White Hart Lane School Hall, White Hart Lane, Wood Green, London N22. For tickets contact: Eulogio Braganza on: 020-8888 9109 or Bernadette Dias on: 020-8361 9417.

7 Oct YLGS (Young London Goans Social). Venue: Meet initially outside Charing Cross BR, next to Thistle Hotel.
3.00pm - 4.00pm New Members only for 1 hour - coffee and introduction
4.00pm - 10.00pm everyone welcome - Jazz nite/restaurant
See website: http://www.aivf35.ukgateway.net/
Contacts: rfernandes@spss.com or marie.pereira@talk21.com

7 Oct. LEICESTER. 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 7 ora, The Moat Community Centre, Maidstone Road, Leicester. (directly behind the railway station) For further details please call: Francis (Leicester 0116- 2354732), Rosy (London 020 8352 9450) or visit our website www.larryboy.net

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. Bernie Gracias 020-8723 1322

15 Oct. 11:00- Moira Association. Mass for Deceased Members. Our Lady of Assumption Church, 131 Deptford High Street

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

29 Oct. 12:30 - Crusaders Football Club Millennium Reunion Dance at the White Hart Lane School Hall, Wood Green, London N22. Holy Mass followed by dancing to the beat of "Karibu" from Leicester. For tickets please contact Nicholas Fernandes on 020 8967 3726, Luis Gracias on 020 8764 4353, Peter Mendes on 020 8809 1782 or Tony Jo Fernandes on 01895 259 947.

4 Nov. Goan Association UK. Mass for Deceased Members. Church of the Assumption (Pilar Fathers), 131 High Street, Deptford. Followed by 3-course fish meal £6. Bernie Gracias 020-8723 1322

11 Nov. 18:30-20:00. ADT College Hall, 100 West Hill, Putney, London SW15. The Goan Musical Society in conjunction with the Wandsworth Arts Festival 2000 presents a Variety Show, "A Goan Cultural Evening". MUSIC-SONG-DANCE-ART-DRAMA presented by dedicated artistes. A unique celebration of Goan culture. Details at: http://www.geocities.com/g.m.s Information: Joao Paulo Cota (020 8646 6390). Tickets: 020 8230 6935 (Kerwin Fernandes). South East Goans have arranged COACH travel for £4 return. Contact Lloyd on 020 8301 5242.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Goanet was founded over 6 years ago by Herman Carneiro (ex-Nairobi) of Boston whilst he was still in h0is teens. This week Herman Carneiro started a one-year postgraduate course at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Herman can be contacted at 020-7685 2507, herminator_inc@hotmail.com We hope to see him at some UK Goan events.

Gregg Carvalho pulled off a coup with his Tiatr last Saturday, attracting 400 people! Catch it in Leicester on Oct.7 if you can!

The Board of Directors of G.O.A. (UK) would like holders of unredeemed Debentures to get in touch with the Secretary on 020-8723-1322 or write to 76 Middleton Ave, Greenford, Middlesex, UB6 8BS. If the certificates are lost please let them know.

Please forward this newsletter to your friends. If you have had the newsletter forwarded to you by a friend, write to eddie@fernandes.u-net.com should you wish to be included in the mailing list. Current membership is 521.

DEATHS

Sept. 23. Tivim. MARIA MAGDALENA D'SOUZA (MAGGIE). Wife of Late Nazareth, mother of Isidore/Vida, Ronnie/Jennifer (Bombay), Silvy/Reggie, Charles/Blossom (Canada), Ivy/Willie (U.K.).

LOOKING FOR

Class of '63, Dr. Ribeiro Goan, School, Nairobi - Check YOUR website, http://hometown.aol.com/staragnes Agnes M. Rocha nee Noronha, of Canada, the website co-ordinator, would love to hear from you. e-mail StarAgnes@aol.com

FLIGHT CORNER

From the Guardian 23 Sept: Spend Christmas in Goa for £519 with direct line holidays (020-8239 3399, www.directlineholidays.com). Depart December 16, returning December 31, and stay at the two-star Resort Mello Rosa hotel.

Curry lovers can learn from top Indian chefs in a unique 16-day culinary tour of Delhi, Lucknow, Agra, Jaipur, Mumbai and Goa. The first trip leaves on November 15, priced £1,995, including flights. Details from CTS Horizons (020 7836 9911).

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

The Interim report of Goa's Tourism Master Plan reveals that tourists do not want casinos and golf as much as water sports, amusements parks, late night bus services, air-conditioned coaches for sight seeing and round-the-clock landing facility for charter flights. See: http://www.goanews.com/27sep00.htm

The village panchayat of Cainsua, in Anjuna has decided to oppose the proposed Anjuna flea market ban.

Tourism minister Victoria Fernandes announced that 30 mobile toilets would be pressed into service at the beaches.

Children's Rights activists are demanding disciplinary action against a Police Inspector for the escape of a suspected paedophile, Dominique Sabire, an alleged associate of Freddy Peats.

The tourism department has decided to licence 18 shacks in North Goa and 14 shacks in South Goa.

After a threat by the hotel industry to boycott the World Tourism Mart to be held in London in November, the Goa government has directed the owner of River Princess to offload the diesel oil from the ship grounded off Candolim.

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

11 Sept. Leicester Mercury. Edgar Rodrigues, originally from Goa, Chef at The Castle Hotel was selected for the regional finals of the Chef and Brewer's National Chef of the Year competition. "I'm actually really confident. I think I'm going to win," he said.

*23 Sept. The Guardian. Book Review: Homework, by Suneeta Peres Da Costa (Bloomsbury, £ 6.99). …Other more commonplace traits - Goan Catholicism, the smell of curry and Dad's immigrant obsession with education - make them different, and life turns absurdly bizarre. Peres Da Costa's debut is a reprise of the terrors of childhood retold for adults… 106 words

*24 Sept. The Observer. Book Review: Homework, by Suneeta Peres Da Costa (Bloomsbury, £ 6.99). …For Mina Pereira, child of a suburban Sydney family, life is full of trials - her father's embarrassing Free Goa campaign, her mother's unmentionable job

*24 Sept. Times of India. The Goa government faces a major task to forbid rave parties, which are set to grasp Goa in the name of tourism and environmentalists protest against the deafening music. 550 words

*24 Sept. Sunday Telegraph. How To Spend £500 In Goa…Six nights at the Leela Palace…Ten nights at Fort Aguada Beach Resort...Two weeks at the Hotel Osbourne including b & b accommodation, return flights from the UK and transfers. 227 words

*26 Sept. Toronto Star. Racism in Canada. The Government there is to draft a national response. 505 words

27 Sept. Evening Standard. Fashion - Allison Pearson Column. …Heavily influenced by the Forties, the autumn look also draws on the early Eighties, the vibrant textiles of Goa and all the glamour of medieval Wales…