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COMMUNITY NEWS
| UK: Roland D'Costa: Children's bike
injuries halve |
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24 Jan:
Oxford Mail. … Among the 700 volunteers who helped
teach schoolchildren to ride a bike safely was a man
who owes his life to a cycle helmet. Roland D'Costa,
55, of Cassington, Oxfordshire, lost control when he
was cycling off-road at Stockley Bottom, near Stonesfield,
but was saved from serious injury by his helmet, which
was split in two by the impact. He escaped with mild
concussion and a severe headache after crashing into
a tree.
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Mr D'Costa,
who took the split helmet to show pupils at St Peter's
School, Cassington, said: "Looking at my smashed
cycle helmet, I can only imagine what the injury to
my head would have been." For text click
here.
Roland D'Costa was born in Nairobi, the son of Reginald
and Anna D'Costa, attended St Teresa’s School
there till 1966 and emigrated to the UK in 1970. He
is married to Hannah and has three sons, Stephen, Louis
and Emilio. He is a co-author of Tristram and Coote's
Probate Practice, 2006, and is the Probate Registrar
in Oxford. |
| UK: Mignon Johnson (nee Pinto) cooks
up a mean vindalho |
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24 Jan:
Western Morning News (UK). A recipe devised in an Exmoor
kitchen for a pork vindahlo dish will do battle against
a traditional English recipe in a programme featuring
celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson. The recipe for
pork vindahlo was devised by Mignon Johnson, who runs
The Saffron Kitchen from her home at Lydeard St Lawrence
on the eastern fringe of Exmoor. For full text of the
article, 326 words, click
here.
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Mignon
Johnson (nee Pinto) traces her Goan roots to Porvorim.
Her recipe will be featured in The People's Cook Book
programme on the UKTV Food channel at 8pm on Thursday
February 12. Check out her website. www.thesaffronkitchen.co.uk
for details of her catering services. |
| Allan DeSouza: Some Like it Hot |
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25 Jan:
San Francisco Bay Times. …Yoko Ono, a new TV series
on here! TV on Lesbian Sex and Sexuality and Some Like
it Hot … There are other goodies in this program
inspired by Yoko's original vision … Will ****
for Peace, a three day recreation of the original Be-In.
Artists Yong Soon Min and Allan DeSouza play Yoko and
John but the context is not Vietnam. It is Iraq. For
text click
here.
Allan DeSouza was born 1958 in Nairobi, raised in the
UK and lives and works in Los Angeles.
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For a profile
of him click
here.
For details of the performance click
here. |
UK: Raleen Pereira. A fairy-tale wedding
29 Jan: Reuters. By Ana Nicolaci da Costa. Modern couples
are looking to make fairy tales out of their weddings …
Raleen Pereira a 23-year-old future bride, is planning to
go back to her Indian roots for a wedding in Goa but wanted
a modern dress. “I am not looking for something traditional,
I want something really different and really extravagant,
something extraordinary," she said. Click
here.
Tony Fernandes: Low Cost, Long Hop
29 Jan. Newsweek International. Tony Fernandes comes across
as slightly cocky. But then the 42-year-old has earned the
right to be. In five short years he's transformed air travel
in South East Asia, and if his latest gamble pays off he'll
soon be shaking up the aviation scene worldwide.
Swindon parent asks BNP a question.
1 Feb: British National Party News. Excerpts: Drove School
serves an ethnically diverse and rapidly changing part of
Swindon … Over the last few years, a growing number
of Konkani speakers of Goan heritage have come to live in
the area, and they now account for just over a fifth of the
pupils. Click
here.
Mississuaga: Richard Noronha Establishes Website BetrayedByWajidKhan.ca
22 Jan: Canada NewsWire. … Noronha is encouraging residents
to visit his site to petition Mr. Dion to consider a resident
of Mississauga-Streetsville to replace Khan. Noronha adds,
“I could not in good conscience allow Mr. Khan to give
the perception to Canadians that our culturally diverse riding
we live in, will get up and follow Mr. Khan to the Conservatives
because he's from Pakistan." … Full text, 428 words
at click
here.
For the campaign website go to click
here.
Richard Noronha’s father was born in Bombay and traces
his roots to Goa
DEATHS
30 Jan: Rome. IVO SANTI
(ex-Tanga & Dar, Tanzania). Husband of Zita (nee De Mello).
Father of Natasa and Ivo. He will be missed by Olav/Tina de
Mello(Dar-es-salaam), Cintia/Norbert Cardoso (Toronto) and
Vilma/Reynold Rocha(Toronto), their children and grandchildren.
Info. From. Stephen de Souza
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26 Jan.
Sidcup, Kent, UK. ANTHONY PEREIRA (ex
Mombasa & Bexleyheath) passed away in Sidcup, Kent.
Husband of the late Josephine (Bathu). Brother of the
late Joseph, brother-in-law of Cissy/late Cajie Monserrat,
Florrie/late Francis Pinto, late Joe Pereira/Zelia (Portugal),
late Alu Pereira/Lydia (USA). Funeral details to follow.
Messages of condolence to herbert- jennifer.fernandes@tesco.net
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Funeral
will be on Friday 9th February 2007 at St. John Vianney
Church, Heathfield Rd., Bexleyheath at 12.00 noon followed
by internment at 1.30 p.m. at Sidcup Cemetery which
will be followed by a wake at St. John Vianney's Church
Hall. Floral tributes or cheque towards Diabetes (UK)
would be greatly appreciated. Anybody wishing to view
the body, please telephone Bexley Funeral Service for
an appointment - tel. no. 0208 3031274.
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26 Jan: Nairobi. MRS. MARGARITA REBELO.
Widow of the late P.A.M. Rebelo. Mother of Aurelio, Celso,
Olympia, Amata, Ivonia, Selina & Hugo. Condolence to:
rebelo@iconnect.co.ke
[Info from GWS, Nairobi].
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25 Jan:
Porvorim, Goa. ESPECIOSA (ESPY) ALMEIDA
(Ex Kampala, Uganda). Wife of late Jusinho. Mother of
Wilma/Morris Correia, Monica/Willie Mesquita, Evelyn/Tyronne
D’Souza, Ticklo. Grandmother of Cheryl/Peter,
Alona/Perry, Reuben/Genevra, Lorraine/Ashwin, Donna,
Evonne/Carlos and Don; Great grandmother of Jessica,
Gia and Nina. |
23 Jan: Mombasa. SHANE RODRIGUES
(passed away sadly in Nairobi after a short illness). Son
of Silvana and the late Peter Rodrigues. Brother of Denise,
Troy, Jeanine, Myron and Jonacia. Funeral service the Holy
Ghost Cathedral, Mombasa, on Saturday, 27 Jan at 3.00 p.m.
followed by burial at Mbaraki Cemetery. [Info from Maureen
de Souza of Mombasa]
17 Jan: Anjuna, Goa. ESTEFANIA GOMES
(Born 1939, ex-Mombasa). Wife of Christopher, mother of Isidora/Ron
Coelho, Sylvester/Tara, Allister/Laura and Oswald (UK); Daughter
of late Remigio/late Maria Martinha D’Souza, Sister
of late Anthony/late Elizabeth D’Souza (Karachi), Elias/Liberata
D’Souza and Lucas/Annie D’Souza (Anjuna). Funeral
will take place on Jan 31 at St Chad’s Church, South
Norwood, London, followed by burial.
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HOLIDAY INFORMATION
Travel: late breaks
27 Jan: Daily Post (Liverpool). Goa: Kuoni (01306 747 008)
offers seven nights' B&B at five-star Leela Goa hotel
in Pavilion Room from £865, incl Monarch flights,
between Feb 3 and April 21.
Travel: late breaks
27 Jan: Daily Mail. Leela Palace, Goa, India. …The
pick of a very fine bunch is the Leela Palace, which you
should book on a B&B basis so you can enjoy the preposterously
cheap, beach shack eateries … Bill Clinton stayed
here a year ago and you should follow suit … Somak
(020 8423 3000; somak.co.uk) has seven nights at the Leela
Palace from £1,159pp (two weeks from £1,569pp),
including flights, transfers and breakfast.
Expresso (Portugal) Goa Supplement
27 Jan. Expresso. Pages 42-49. Lavishly illustrated supplement
on Goa. Access to the articles is by registration (free)
at the site Click here.
GOA NEWS HEADLINES
Industry fouls groundwater in Goa,
drinking water crisis
25 Jan: Down to Earth. Groundwater contamination in Goa’s
Pilerne industrial estate has led to a drinking water crisis
in its surrounding villages. By now, more than 300 residents
from Orda and Saipem villages have been affected by drinking
polluted water. Click
here.
Goan Priests find many child abuse
cases happen in the homes?
25 Jan: Catholic Online (USA). By Bosco de Souza Eremita (UCAN).
Two Catholic priests who work with children in Goa say about
45 percent of child-abuse cases they have encountered in the
Goa involve abuse within the child's home … a 2005 study
by Child Rights in Goa surveyed 1,140 children and found that
96 percent of them reported being abused in one form or another,
sexual abuse in 45 percent of the cases. 698 words. Click
here.
3 compete for Sesa Goa.
26 Jan: International Herald Tribune. Arcelor Mittal, the
world's biggest steelmaker, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto Group
are competing to buy a stake in the Indian iron ore mine company
Sesa Goa worth about $820 million … JSW Steel, India's
fourth-biggest producer, is also bidding for the stake …
Mittal and Posco plan to spend $21 billion over the next seven
years in India to tap rising demand and the world's fifth-largest
iron ore reserves. Click
here.
Book Review: Invisible Armies by
Jon Evans. 2006. Fiction.
26 Jan: Cambell River Mirror. From Goa to Paris to London,
Danielle and the legendary hacker Kieran Kell are drawn into
a deadly conflict between a transnational mining company and
the invisible armies of anti-corporate protesters who oppose
its work in the Third World. Click
here.
Goa govt shelves its regional plan retrospectively
26 Jan: CNN-IBN. Its a victory for Goa’s civil rights
activists as India celebrates her 58th Republic Day. The Goa
government has announced it will denotify its ambitious regional
plan 2011 with retrospective effect … The government
had earlier said projects, which have already been approved,
would not be shelved. But public pressure has now made the
government rethink its decision. Click
here.
Benaulim: One carpenter too many
27 Jan: Business Standard. By Geetanjali Krishna. Benaulim
is one of the larger villages of Goa, but certainly not large
enough to support many carpenters. But why are there so many
of them there? 612 words. Click
here.
FEMA permits purchase of land by
foreigners
29 Jan: Navhind Times. People in Goa have been raising questions
over land deals between locals and foreigners. Mr Carlos A
Ferreira, Assistant Solicitor General of India and former
advocate general of the state talks about laws relating to
the land acquisition by foreigners in the country in an attempt
to find answers to the vexed problem. 1.373 words. Click
here.
The Red Light District of Goa.
29 Jan: Ohmy News (Korea). . By Armstrong Vaz. In Goa, Baine
had been unofficially classified as a red light district until
the state government demolished it in 2004. Figures collected
in 2005 indicted that around 40 percent of the sex workers
in the state were HIV-positive. The report revealed that Goa
has the highest level of trafficking of women and children
compared to other states. Click
here.
AIDS: "foreign tourists carry
a false notion"
31 Jan: The Hindu. Foreign tourists frequent India because
of its relaxed laws, child sex workers and with a false idea
that there is a lower incidence of AIDS.About 2,000 women
are in the sex trade along the Baina beachfront in Goa, according
to a report … Describing India as a favoured destination
of paedophile sex tourists from Europe and the United States,
the report pointed out that the main frequenters of sex workers
in Goa were tourists, local men and college boys. Click
here.
In Panjimgrad the lid is blown. CM Rane is forced
to act.
5 Feb: Outlook. By Saikat Datta. An Outlook expose on the
Russian mafia investing in real estate in Goa rocked the state
assembly, with the Opposition demanding an explanation from
chief minister Pratapsinh Rane. Caught on the backfoot, the
CM could say little in his government’s defence. 699
words. Click
here.
IN THE NEWS
Asha Bhosle still learning, 60
years on
25 Jan. Reuters. Interview By Prithwish Ganguly. After more
than 14,000 recordings and a career spanning six decades,
legendary Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle still considers herself
a student of music. Born in 1933 in Goa, she has sung thousands
of hits in several Indian languages, which have garnered her
innumerable awards … After losing her father at the
age of 9, Bhosle started acting and singing in films with
her more illustrious sister Lata Mangeshkar to support her
family. 643 words. Click
here.
Stephen Bennett’s Parents Retrace
His Final Steps
26 Jan: Gloucestershire Echo. Stephen Bennett's parents have
returned from India after taking a trip to retrace their son's
final steps. The 40-year-old from Cheltenham was murdered
while on holiday in Goa … Carol and Maureen Bennett
travelled to India for four days with ITN news, determined
to find answers … They say they are optimistic investigations
are going in the right direction …The British High Commissioner
criticised Indian police for inaccurate reporting, factual
errors and releasing post mortem details freely in the press
… 398 words. Click
here.
Making A Move: India
27 Jan: The Guardian. … Officially, there are 32,000
Britons living in India. Unofficially, the number is thought
to be at least double that. Thanks to deepening business and
family links, this figure is rising every year. Some come
for the scenery - Goa has a thriving British population who
have bought seaside flats and descend for six months a year
of guaranteed sunshine. The more recent arrivals come for
work - especially in India's booming hi-tech industries. Visas
are not hard to get - although changing from a tourist to
a work visa is almost impossible. 855 words.Click
here.
RECENT ITEMS OF PARTICULAR
INTEREST ON GOANET. BY CORNEL DACOSTA
Why is carpentry so attractive to craftsmen in parts of
Goa like Benaulim to the point where there may be a saturation
in the production of quality furniture? An interesting piece
by Devika Fernandes throws light on this phenomenon.
A 'certain tension' between Goan residents in Goa and those
who are abroad, as Non Resident Indians (NRIs), appears
to manifest itself on Goanet. Is it possible that both groups
may perhaps misunderstand each other's intentions and aspirations
for Goa? Find out about this increasingly vocal topic on
Goanet.
A 'certain tension' also seems to be brewing up on Goanet
between a minority articulating the 'failings' of Catholic
priests in Goa and those who vociferously rush to the aid
of such priests. The priests may indeed appear to be beleaguered
at times with so many questions about their lifestyles and
morality. Is this a sign of increased secular thinking or
is it a case of dirty linen being washed in public? There
is rather a lot of discussion on this issue currently on
Goanet.
Remo Fernandes, the renowned Goan musician and social critic
has just been awarded the prestigious Padmashree award in
India. Find out about this award and Remo's reactions on
learning about his award, and also, his commentary about
the award itself.
The Red Light District of Baina: Human Trafficking a Cause
of Concern in India, is the title of a topic taken from
Ohmy News and given considerable significance in the light
of HIV and Aids in India. By focussing on Goa (from a report
emanating from the UN), we learn that Goa has the highest
level of trafficking of women and children compared to other
[Indian] states. This may indeed surprise Goan Voice (UK)
readers and who are now welcomed to post some commentary
on this and other topics on Goanet.
Is Kerala way ahead on the tourism scale compared to Goa?
In a brief report that Kerala has won three tourism awards
recently, while Goa appeared to be "nowhere in the
picture" we are told by Philip Thomas about the high
quality of hotels etc, not only in Kerala but in several
other places in India.
Finally, do read an interesting piece titled The Power of
One by Pravin Sabnis. Pravin draws on the story of Rosa
Parks, a black woman in the USA who refused to relinquish
a seat on a bus for a white passenger, as was the law at
the time, and how such civil disobedience triggered the
Montgomery Bus Boycott and contributed significantly to
the Civil Rights Movement. The above analogy has now been
drawn upon by Pravin to describe the solitary and brave
effort of Patricia Pinto, who on18/11/2006, in Goa, stood
firm in her resolve to prevent the unwarranted felling of
trees. She did this despite verbal abuse and threats of
arrest. Her triumph in adversity is linked well with the
Save Goa social movement.
More details can be found at the Goanet archives at http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/
Or to subscribe to Goanet, send an email to subscribe@goanet.org
UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
Documentary: India Rising. BBC World
Service Radio
Sat 3 Feb to Sun 11 Feb. A week of special programming from
the BBC World Service goes under the skin of contemporary
India, examining the political, cultural, economic, religious,
cultural and scientific landscapes of this vast country. As
India rises, we ask: who is being left behind? For details
of the programmes click
here.
TRAVEL: Arthur's Trip to India. Channel
Five
Sun 4 Feb. 12:05 to 12:35. Arthur visits the oldest Catholic
Church in Kerala and plays in a local football match. Arthur's
parents enjoy a massage and Lucy and her friend arrive after
a disastrous 57 hour train journey.
Documentary: A Baby Story. Discovery
Home and Health Plus 1
Wed 7 Feb. 06:30 to 07:00. Baby Francis. Help is on hand for
Ive and Leni when their baby arrives. Their traditional Indian
background means Leni's parents are also part of the household.
Documentary: Adoption Stories. On:
Discovery Home and Health Plus 1
Thu 8 Feb. 16:00 to 16:30. Rennie and Castelino are adopting
a young boy from India who, coincidentally, shares his father-to-be's
name.
Documentary: Get a New Life. UKTV
Style.
Fri 9 Feb. 08:00 to 09:00. Jo and Trevor Whyley want to swap
Birmingham for the more tropical climes of Goa in India. Builder
Trevor is dreaming of retirement but office manager Jo wants
to set up a guesthouse. However, can she cut through Indian
bureaucracy? Repeat.
Cookery: Delhi Belly. UKTV Bright
Ideas.
Fri 9 Feb: 12:30 to 13:00. Party Food. Comedy actor Sanjeev
Bhaskar prepares some perfect party food.
FORTHCOMING
See http://www.lanfranc.com/lanfranc_location_2000.pdf
for help in locating Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon
Sun. 18 Feb. Viva Goa Entertainment presents
Traditional RED & BLACK evening
in West London - Old Actonian Assc. Sports Club, opp. Gunnersbury
Park, Ealing, W5 4LL. Music by – “LEVEL 4”
and "CHICO" one man band, Doors open 2.30 onwards.
Early bird 2 tickets @£18.00 ends 20th Jan 2007.Thereafter
£10/adults & £3/child. Contact Francis/Norman
on 0208 932 9375/ 07957206169/ 0208 647 1887.
Sun 18 Feb. Mungul Union (UK)
celebrates the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at St Ignatius
College, Turkey Street, Enfield, EN1 4NP. Band: Maz &
Co. For tickets and details, please contact Rosy D'Silva -
piadsilva@hsbc.com/0208
352 9450 or Rosalind Rebello on 0208 767 8652; ros.rebello@amserve.net
Members note cut-off date 4 February. Public transport to
Hall: Buses 217 from Turnpike Lane or 121 from Wood Green.
Overhead train from Liverpool St. Station to Turkey St.
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