GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SUN 01 NOVEMBER, 2009
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| Mick Bahler snatches animals from jaws of death | |||
1 Nov: The People (UK). Mick Bahler was a £60,000-a-year computer wizard
but he chucked it all to work for free at an animal rescue centre in the Indian
state of Goa. Three years on, he has saved the lives of thousands of creatures…
He is bidding to raise desperately needed funds for the International Animal Rescue
charity refuge where he volunteers. 331 words. Click
here. The International Animal Rescue is at http://www.internationalanimalrescue.org/ | |||
| Death: Amelia Rodrigues | |||
 31 Oct: Raia, Goa. AMELIA MARIA LUIZA RODRIGUES (Born 1937). Wife of late Francisco X. Rodrigues. Mother of Bonny/Linda; Theresa/Dominic (Kuwait); Nazima/Kenneth; Monica/Francisco; Braulio (Kuwait), Clement/Lydia. Sister of Albino Valles/Dora (Canada), Peter Valles/Victoria; Milly/late Neves Ferrao. Funeral on 1 Nov. at Raia.
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| Joe D'Cruz: H1N1 vaccination rollout suspended in Ontario | |||
31 Oct: The Hamilton Spectator. Public health units have been directed to scrap
plans to open H1N1 vaccination clinics to the general public next week ... "This
was the problem with SARS," said Joe D'Cruz, a University of Toronto professor
specializing in health policy. "Everyone took their own approach and for
a long time, no one knew what the right approach was." … Click
here. For a profile of Prof D'Cruz (ex-Karachi), click here. | |||
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| Funeral of Pia Lobo The funeral Of Pia Lobo nee Almeida (ex-Uganda) is to take place on Wed. 4 Nov. at 12 Noon at Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, 1 Elwes Way, Great Billing, Northampton, NN3 9EA. She leave behind her husband, Andrew, Children, Marilyn, Douglas/Sally and Elvis/Ida and grand children, Ben, Sarah, Ashly, Tia, Nikita, Karl and Regan and 2 great grandchildren. Sister-in-Law Philo Peckett, and many Nephews and Neices. Email: dlobo@btinternet.com | |||
| Romancing the sun, sand & sea in Goa 1 Nov: Asian Age. By Ishaa Koppikar. My favourite holiday spot has always been Goa. It’s a place I went to when I was much younger, with my family, cousins, and it was our idea of a perfect holiday. And it has remained the same since then… 646 words. more details.. | |||
| Goa: Shacks imbroglio 1 Nov: Times of India. Stating that the shack business on Goa's coastal belt has already been hurt, as the shack allotments have been stayed by the high court till November 5, the Shack Owners Welfare Society (SOWS) has decided to intervene in the petition. SOWS convened a meet at the T B Cunha hall on Friday morning, which was attended by almost all its members… 397 words more details.. | |||
| Vince Cable: Come join me in the doghouse 1 Nov: The Sunday Times (UK). Vince Cable, the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman and fairy godfather of British politics… He is frank about various adversities, including his mother's mental breakdown, bouts of domestic violence and his controversial first marriage at 23 to Olympia, a beautiful Kenyan Goan he met while working at a psychiatric hospital… Olympia died in May 2001 and he went to India to console relatives... 1573 words. Click here For a photo of Olympia Rebello click here. | |||
| Italian tourists prefer Kerala to Goa 1 Nov: Navhind Times. The honorary consul of Italy in Goa and chairman of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dr A Dal Negro on Saturday said that during the 1980s all major Italian tour operators included Goa in their itineraries. However, today if they offer a beach holiday in India then they prefer Kerala to Goa... 576 words. more details.. | |||
| Goa succeeds in wooing Russian tourists 1 Nov: Navhind Times. Goa appeared to be reaping the fruits of the persistent efforts by the tourism department and the tourism industry in wooing the Russians to the state. 696 words. more details.. | |||
| Goa tourist trade wants visa-on-arrival 1 Nov: Times of India. Temporary Landing Facility (TLF) that immigration authorities of Goa have has been giving out in large numbers might have alarmed our security agencies, but the tourist trade here feels that the facility of visa-on-arrival, if not TLFs, should be made available to keep the industry vibrant in the state. 437 words. more details.. | |||
| Goa blast: Two arrests 31 Oct. The Pioneer. Two more Sanatan Sanstha associates, including an MBA, were arrested in Goa on Saturday in connection with the Diwali eve blast in Margao in which two members of the Hindu group were killed while carrying a bomb, police said. Police did not rule out the possibility of more arrests and the involvement of a mastermind behind the Goa blast Oct 16… 394 words. more details.. | |||
| Meet the Grewals, a British Indian family just like yours 31 Oct: The Guardian (UK). Three generations of Grewals live in their five-bedroom pebble-dashed house under the Heathrow flight path in Windsor. For two months this summer it was also home to 28 cameras, 37 microphones, several miles of cabling and a production crew hiding in the back garden… Channel 4 has picked the first British Indian family to undergo the rigours of hard line reality TV surveillance… 1227 words + photo The Family. Channel 4. Wed. 4 Nov. 21:00 to 22:00. more details.. | |||
| At Air India, Losses, Rats and a Brawl in the Sky 31 Oct: New York Times. Air India has suffered from a series of particularly painful — and at times embarrassing — misfortunes… rats on a plane, a strike by senior pilots and a midair fistfight between pilots and flight attendants. In September, a flight to Riyadh was grounded after a passenger saw sparks coming from an engine… more details.. | |||
