GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 24 APRIL, 2010
| ANNOUNCEMENT | |||
| The Mining Petition | |||
6 days to go! Will we achieve our target of 1000 signatures? Please ask your friends to tell their contacts to support the campaign by going to http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php
before 30 Apr. 2010. Thanks. | |||
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| Death: Yvonne D’Souza | |||
 24 Apr: Mapusa, Goa. YVONNE D’SOUZA (Born 1935; ex-Uganda). Relict of Nobby D’Souza. Mother of Wenda (Canada); Cleophas/Alice (Canada). Sister of Cyrilla/Willie Almeida; late Oscar/Brenda; Leslie/Eliza; Phillip/Molly; Antoinette/late Lawrie Fialho; Rev Sr. Josepha; late Sybil/late Ralph Lobo; late Ornel/Veronica and late Zena. Funeral in Mapusa on 25 Apr. Full details at the link below.
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| F.N. Souza: Colours of love and hate | |||
24 Apr: The Hindu. One of the largest exhibitions of India's best known modernist, Francis Newton Souza, held at the Lalit Kala Akademi in Delhi recently, traced his journey — personal and artistic — from being an expelled student to an angry iconoclast… 1689 words. + pics. | |||
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| Karma Kosher: The Goan Israelis | |||
3 May: Outlook. By Aimee Ginsburg. Far from their drugged-out image, Goan Israelis are the new entrepreneurs … Moshe, a master leather worker has been living here for over a decade. His handbags cost anywhere between Rs 15,000 and Rs 1,00,000 a piece… Naomi Todres is a resident since ’93; her fashion label Goa Magic is gaining popularity … Ori Balak was one of Israel’s best drummers; now exports drums from India … a new generation of Goan Israelis, picking up Hindi and Konkani, along with Hebrew, is also coming of age. 1295 words + 3 photos.
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News Summary | |||
| Death: Andre Coutinho 23 Apr: Vasco, Goa. ANDRE SANTANA COUTINHO. Husband of Conceicao Father of Maria/Caetano D'Silva, Paulina/Santan Joanes (UK). Grandfather of Tyrel, Tracy, Amie and Alfa. Funeral on 24th April at Vasco. | |||
| Chartered passengers troubled due to non-arrival of flights 25 Apr: Navhind Times. The chartered passengers who have been stranded in the state are being inconvenienced due to the non-arrival of chartered flights… there are still about 800 to 1,000 passengers from European countries that are stranded in Goa due to cancellation of chartered flights. About four to five chartered flights have been re-scheduled and would arrive at the Dabolim airport in a couple of days but till then the passengers have to bear the inconvenience… 385 words. Full Text. | |||
| Anger over decision not to hold Konkani Film Festival 25 Apr: Navhind Times. Some of the members of the governing council of the Entertainment Society of Goa have taken serious objection to the step taken by the CEO of the ESG, Mr Manoj Srivastava, wherein he has sidelined the decision of the governing council to hold a Konkani Film Festival around April 24, in commemoration of the screening of the first Konkani film, ‘Mogacho Aundo’ on this day and instead, organised the European Union Film Festival… 792 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa fails to attract high-class foreign tourists 25 Apr: Navhind Times. Though tourism has become a mainstay of the state economy over the years, it has not been able to attract high-class and high spending foreign tourists… 620 words. Full Text. | |||
| Assault victims booked 25 Apr: Herald. Adding insult to injury, John Fernandes and Pobre Fernandes, who were allegedly assaulted by two persons on Friday, were booked by Quepem police on Saturday on charges of blocking mining traffic… 333 words. Full Text. | |||
| Passengers marooned in India blame BA for ticket chaos 24 Apr: The Guardian (UK).. … Dozens of British passengers, still stranded, queued for hours in steaming heat in pursuit of scarce seats back to the UK. Not for the first time, they came away empty-handed with nothing more to look forward to than another night on the terminal floor or a trek back to the hotel and hours on hold with an airline reservations centre… BA in particular seemed to be attracting anger after it emerged that the airline is not giving priority to stranded customers and has placed spare seats on the open market… 770 words. Full Text. | |||
| Drugs worth Rs.25 lakh seized in Goa 24 Apr: IANS. Hours after Goa Director General of Police’s claim that drugs were 'virtually non-existent in Goa', a Nigerian was arrested Saturday with drugs, comprising nearly half a kilogram of cocaine and 45 gm of ecstasy worth nearly Rs.25 lakh [approx £42.000]… 270 words. Full Text. | |||
| Deepak Chopra: Goan Fish Curry is our favourite food … 25 Apr: Times of India. Deepak Chopra: "… our family is more inclined toward vegetarian food now, but we do enjoy non-vegetarian food too, with Goan Fish Curry being our favourite… Full Text. | |||
| Denyse Sweeney dies after fall in Goa 24 Apr: Derby Telegraph (UK). Denyse Sweeney, 35, has died after sustaining head injuries in a restaurant in Goa. Police believe she fell and hit her head. They are investigating the incident, which happened on April 16… 125 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa to host European Union film festival 23 Apr: Times of India. Goa will host the 15th European Union Film Festival (EUFF) of India from Saturday and will host 23 films from 22 countries in Europe. 219 words. Full Text. | |||
| Let charter tourists leave by scheduled flights: TTAG 24 Apr: Times of India. Witnessing the scramble for flights by tourists seeking to return to the UK, the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa has asked the authorities to permit charter tourists to board scheduled flights to get back home. It has asked that in times of emergency, this rule should be overlooked… 282 words. Click here. Ed: Can someone please explain the reason for the rule? In any case the regulations already allow for exceptions in emergencies - see rule 4.1.xi at http://dgca.nic.in/aic/aic02-04.pdf | |||
