GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER TUE 25 AUGUST, 2009
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| Goa opens smuggling museum | |||
 25 Aug: Sydney Morning Herald. The Indian Customs and Central Excise Museum is housed in a heritage building on the banks of the river Mandovi in Panaji… Lillian Fernandes, the officer in charge of the museum, said collecting the exhibits has been a labour of love… 610 words. | |||
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| Death: Jose Filinto | |||
22 Aug: Calangute, Goa. JOSE CESAR FILINTO. (Born 1930; ex-Hoechst Pharma, Bombay). Husband of Maria Connie. Foster father of Christabelle/Gabriel Gomes. Brother of Especiosa, late Gilbert D’Souza, Fr. David, Lia/late Franciso DeSa, Ivo/Beryl, Ruth/late Otto Santos, Jaime/Fanny, Sr. Goretti (Karachi), Gui/Yvonne, Fr Agnelo (Brazil). Brother-in-law of late Fr David (Joe) Carvalho (California), Zena/late Saturnino Pereira (London), late Tony Carvalho. Funeral on 26 Aug. at Calangute. Photo and full details at the link below
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| Allan Vaz gets ready to challenge Remo with Go Goa! | |||
 24 Aug: IANS. Allan Vaz is a Mumbai based Goan singer who has come up with an
album called GO GOA. He says, "Not even Remo has come up with a hard core
Goan album…" 635 words. Click
here. You tube video clip (3m. 50s) Allan Vaz with his tittle song GO GOA at Siolim. Click here. | |||
| Walking Tall: Lily Elliott and Maddy Nimmo | |||
 24 Aug: Kent & Sussex Courier. UK: Nine-year-olds Maddy Nimmo and friend Lily Elliott have set up their own stall in Frant, East Sussex, in a bid to raise money for charity. Maddy’s aunt, Tanya Brinklow's sets out to Goa on Sunday to work for the charity Children Walking Tall … the girls have raised £100 in only a few days … Mrs Brinklow has also managed to raise £1,170 … 394 words. [Article orginally appeared in GV on Sat but the full text and photo was only available online today].
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| Death: Sybil Mascarenhas 22 Aug: Crawley Sussex UK. SYBIL MASCARENHAS. (Born 1953) Wife of John. Mother of Joanne and Theresa-Marie. Daughter of Cyril and late Terezinha Alfonso. Funeral Mass: Thu. 27 Aug. at 1.45pm at St. Edwards The Confessor R C Church, Hillcrest Close, Pound Hill, Crawley. Sussex RH10 7EQ followed by burial at Snell Hatch cemetery, The Dingle, West Green. Crawley Sussex, and then a small get together at the Church Hall. | |||
| Supreme Court stays deportation order of supermodel's husband 25 Aug: PTI, The Supreme Court on Tuesday stayed the deportation order issued against international filmmaker Craig Maxwell Sterry, estranged husband of supermodel Ujjawala Raut… The estranged couples' divorce proceedings are pending before a court in Goa. more details.. | |||
| Death: Peter Fernandes 24 Aug: Mumbai. PETER FERNANDES (ex Calvim, Goa) Beloved husband of Nellie. Funeral on 25 Aug. at Andheri, Mumbai. | |||
| Rebecca Mascarenhas: The restaurant lame name shame game 25 Aug: Guardian (UK). Naming restaurants is a tricky business… Phil Howard, the terrific chef and skilled restaurateur Rebecca Mascarenhas are shortly to open a new casual restaurant. And after much toing and froing and talking they have decided to name it: Kitchen W8… The worst restaurant name in history? Absolutely not. more details.. | |||
| Goa: Football League sailing in choppy waters 25. Aug: By Armstrong Vaz. A court case filed up a Goan club, Velsao Pale Sports Club, has meant that the upcoming Goa Professional League is on its hinges. The club has challenged their relegation from the Goa Professional League… more details.. | |||
| Death: Oliver Abranches 25 Aug: Mombasa, Kenya. OLIVER ABRANCHES. Husband of Brenda. Father of Ashley and Beverley. Brother to Bernie, Clarence, Demetrius, Purification, Priscilla and Gabby. Condolences to brenabranches@hotmail.com [Info from Maureen De Souza]. | |||
| Goa Velha to get “India’s first retirement home” 25 Aug: Navhind Times. Mumbai-based, Palacio Group has announced the launch of Golden Retreat community complex to come up in Goa Velha…. Though it is designed for the returning Goan NRIs, others can apply … Prices start from Rs24 lakhs for a one bed-room apartment … 317 words. more details.. | |||
| Goa: Flesh trade prospers with sophisticated network 25 Aug: Navhind Times. With fast growing network, the sex trade in the state is fast becoming hi tech. With the mushrooming of cyber café and vast Internet networks, a sex worker is just a mouse click or a phone call away… Girls with Chinese eyes are in much demand among the tourists… 444 words. more details.. | |||
| ‘Are we throttling tourism in Goa?’ 25 Aug: Herald. P Poddar, the Director of one of Goa’s casinos says that they are not responsible for ruining families as claimed. Poddar also feels by raising the entry-fee for on-shore casinos from Rs 200 to Rs 2,000, the government was throttling tourism in the tiny State… 555 words. more details.. | |||
| Lt. Gen. EA Vas: Life, As It Was Then... In Karachi 24 Aug. GoaNet. Extracts from 'Fools and Infantrymen: One View of History 1923-1993', by Lt. Gen. E.A.Vas, PVSM. Published by Kartikeya Publications, Meerut (UP)… Vas was born in 1923 in Karachi … a Catholic school, a convent and a church dominated areas where Goans resided… Goans were prudish about sex… The best dance band in Karachi was the Goan group. The General passed away on 17 Aug. 2009… 3562 words. more details.. | |||
| Goanet Highlights by Cornel DaCosta Clearly, the seas around Goa are too attractive for many people to throw all concerns about danger to the winds. Indeed, during the monsoons, the waters are simply pretty treacherous. Yet, each year, hundreds die unnecessarily when the warnings not to enter the waters are all around. It would be helpful to discover what more can be done, but the article below (even if geared more to the west) will hopefully go some way in reducing the death toll on Goa's beautiful beaches. For details, click here. The issue of health care reform in America now 'rages' endlessly on Goanet despite the rule that postings must be Goa-related. The turmoil on health reform in America will be seen by the message linked here. At a time when India and China are often popularly perceived to become the next economic leaders of the world, more serious commentators seem to acknowledge China's rapid economic and infrastructural advances but see India as ending up no more than a client state of the USA. In this context, Freddy Fernandes is inclined to see India, at age sixty-two, still running on fractured legs! To see why click here. In a similar vein, V Gadgill ponders the question why the NRI has fallen from grace in India. Click here. Finally, is it the case as Selma asks that the Goan "posro" died a premature death in parts of East Africa? The term "posro" or "dukka" (Swahili for small shop) as run by Indian "dukkawallas" would be inappropriate or lost in translation for the Konkani term "posro" in my humble view. Click here. To visit the Goanet archives go to http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/
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