GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 03 APRIL, 2010
| ANNOUNCEMENT | ||
| Padma winners in Goa unite against 'excessive' mining | ||
30 Mar: Times of India. Goa's Padma award winners have got together to urge the
Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) not to lift the moratorium on
mining till the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI)
completes an assessment on the impact of past mining activities on the state …
Mario Miranda, Ravindra Kelekar, Remo Fernandes, Suresh Amonkar, Norma Alvares
and Maria Aurora Couto have signed the petition. Wendell Rodricks has also added
his signature … 160 words. Click
here. You too can sign the petition before 15 Apr. 2010 and urge your contacts to do likewise. Click here. | ||
Photo Gallery | ||
| Death: Florrie Cordeiro | ||
 30 Mar: Panjim, Goa. FLORRIE ATHAIDE CORDEIRO. (Born 1930; ex-Dar es
Salaam). Wife of late Vanancio. Mother of Maura/Francisco (Chiquito); late Malvina/Dileep;
Merlyn/Oswaldo (Biblo), Mavis/Pralad, May, Milena/Leslie. Funeral on 4 April
at St Ines Church, Panjim. For photo and full text, click
here. For a tribute by Frederick Noronha, click here. To view some of the condolence messages, click here. Send condolences to merlynvelho at yahoo.com | ||
| Death: Maria Fernandes | ||
 26 Mar: Calgary, Alberta, Canada. MARIA PIEDADE FERNANDES (aged 90; ex Nairobi,
Kenya) passed away peacefully after years of declining health. She is survived
by her sons, Alfredo (Lena), Roberto (Marguerita), Aurelio (Elaine), all from
Calgary, Alberta; daughters, Elia and Olga (Ian) from Edgware, England; grandchildren,
Janine (Richard), Dellano, Sean and Ashley; and great grandchildren, India, Emerson
and Renee. Maria is also survived by her sister Antonieta in Goa, and numerous
nephews and nieces. Funeral Mass will be celebrated at Sacred Heart Catholic Church
(1307 - 14th St. SW), Calgary on Saturday, April 10, at 9:00 am. Private graveside
service to follow at Queen's Park Cemetery. Condolences to alf.fernandes@shaw.ca | ||
News Summary | ||
| Tighter visa norms spell misery for Indian-origin people, tourists 3 Apr: Times of India. India's new visa policy is now a monster that is affecting India's relations with many countries. Recently, a delegation of ambassadors from EU countries met home minister P Chidambaram to say that their citizens were being harassed because India's visa policies were keeping them out. Individually, envoys have protested in strong language to the government, some even promising to look at reciprocal measures against Indians travelling overseas… 691 words. Full Text. | ||
| Oscar Kuchera cannot live in his Goa house 29 Mar: Uznayvse (Russia) Indian authorities have banned Russians from long-term visas even if they own a property there. .. Not knowing this famous actor Oscar Kuchera built at Goa for $50000… the angry actor is now forced every month to return to Moscow to obtain a new permit for entry into India… Machine translation. 146 words. Full Text. | ||
| Editorial: Goa: Solve the airport mess 3 Apr: Herald. Each afternoon, a few thousands Goans, expats, tourists and visitors from the rest of India go through the agony of passing through Dabolim airport. It is a painful process, with flights bottle-necked in the afternoon hours, few landings taking place in the morning and overall chaos prevailing. In the absence of good transport connections with the airport even getting to and from Dabolim is an excessively costly process… 658 words. Full Text. | ||
| ‘Goa waterways cannot handle more iron ore traffic’ 3 Apr: IANS. Goa’s waterways do not have the capacity to handle any increase in iron ore traffic, a top port official said Saturday. Chairman of the Goa-based Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) Praveen Agarwal was responding to questions on whether the MPT, Goa’s only major port, would be in a position to handle the projected 100 million tonnes of iron ore, in wake of 100 more mines being cleared by the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), which is likely to nearly double the state’s mining output… 358 words. Full Text. | ||
| Book Review: Maria’s Room 3 Apr: The Hindu. Shreekumar Varma sets his book in rain-lashed Goa, an inspired choice of setting for a protagonist on a breakdown. Far from the revelry of sun and sand, this is a Goa of overflowing streets, vivid foliage, lonely, courteous hotels. It is the perfect place to brood, and that is our narrator's intention… 656 words. Full Text. | ||
| Goa port to build berths for foreign navies, cruises 3 Apr: IANS. Separate berthing facilities for Indian Navy’s aircraft carriers, foreign naval ships and a passenger cruise terminal for high end liners will be created by 2011 at Goa’s only major port at Mormugao, a senior official said Saturday… 391 words. Full Text. | ||
| 'Cleaner, safer Goa beaches from May' 3 Apr: MidDay. Murders, sinister stories of a foreign land mafia, local cops getting busted for peddling drugs, rape of children... Goa was a fit case for the caption, 'Paradise Lost'. But good news has started trickling in with the Rs 200 crore central package and steps to strengthen tourist safety … 719 words. Full Text. | ||
| Mom demands detailed probe into Kaushal's death 3 Apr: Times of India. The mother of British fugitive of Indian origin, Ajay Kaushal, has said that she never knew that her son had respiratory ailments, and reiterated the demand for a detailed investigation… Hailing from Manchester, Kaushal was arrested in Goa in October last year. He was wanted in the UK since 2003 in a kidnapping case… 343 words. Full Text. | ||