GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER WED 04 AUGUST, 2010
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Video + Text: 'Hitler' makes loo escape
4 Aug: iAfrica. (South Africa). Police were on Wednesday hunting a double murderer called Hitler Fernandes (photo) who escaped from a prison toilet in Goa state with two other men. "We noticed the jail break after 3:00 am today. They escaped by drilling a hole in the toilet," said Levinson Martins, the head of the high-security Sada jail in Vasco da Gama, in Goa ... Four prison officers have been suspended in connection with the incident ... 151 words. Click here.
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Death: Jose DeSa
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29 Jul: Swindon, UK. JOSE DESA (aged 81; ex-Agacaim, Goa). Son of late Francisco Desa and Roman Fernandes. Loving husband of Sacrementa Colaco (Ex-Cortalim). Father of Joanetta, Francisco, Luis, Josefa, Belina and Elda. Father-in-law of Angelo De Mello, Edward Teles, Camilo Fernandes and Arthur Alfonso. Funeral will take place on Friday 6th August 2010 at 9.30am at St Marys Church, Tovy Road, Swindon, SN2 1LQ . Followed by Burial at Witworth Road Cemetery at 11am. Thereafter to Jennings Street Community Centre for refreshments. Condolences to angelodemello@googlemail.com
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Canada: Xavier Fernandes: Quest steam rollers over art
4 Aug: Midland Free Press (Ont. Canada). Quest Art School + Gallery hosted six artists at the 2nd Annual Steam Roller Prints ... Participating artists included Xavier Fernandes (photo) ... Artists donated one print each ... Prints will be displayed at the Quest Art School + Gallery from August 9 to October 16. The public is invited to view and bid on these prints online. Bidding closes on October 16.
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Revised English Mass from next year
2 Aug: CathNewsIndia. Catholics in India can expect a somewhat different celebration of Mass next year when a revised English text for the liturgy is put to use. The Latin-rite bishops of India have “voted to introduce” the revised liturgy, Cardinal Oswald Gracias (photo) of Bombay said ... The cardinal is a new appointee to the Vatican office that oversees liturgical practices... 201 words.
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Goa’s Michelangelo and his detractors
1 Aug: Herald. Dr Jose Pereira, whose paintings of Hindu Gods have come under attack from the Hindu JanJagriti Samiti and the Sanatan Sanstha, has based his works firmly on great Hindu mythological works and on orthodox Hindu sculpture and painting. A great scholar and a remarkable humanist, he can recite the entire text of the Bhagwat Geeta in Sanskrit, says painter Dr Subodh Kerkar. Full Text.
Tiatr raises its curtains
5 Aug: Economic Times. Easter Sunday, 17 April 1892 is generally regarded as the date on which the first documented performance of a modern Konkani tiatr was staged in Bombay. .. Goan troupes have gone global by performing in the Gulf region, London and even Toronto ... 662 words. Full Text.
Issue of OCI Cards
4 Aug: Press Information Bureau. Govt of India. The number of applications received for issue of Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) cards as on 30.6.2010 is 648977. [Selected] Country-wise break-up is: USA: 260,176. UK: 96,390. Canada: 58,182. Australia: 55,320. Portugal: 1,449. Within East Africa: Kenya: 13,820. Tanzania: 446. Uganda: 74. Full Text.
Foreign drugs arrests increase
4 Aug: Straits Times (Malaysia). The number of foreigners arrested for drugs possession in Goa is rising ... Twenty-two overseas nationals were detained by police in the first six months of this year, just one short of the total for the whole of 2009 ... Six Nepalis, five Israelis, four Nigerians and two Swedes were arrested, with others from Iran, Norway, the Netherlands, Russia and the Palestinian territories... 148 words. Full Text.
John Grafton gets cancer shock after achieving life’s ambition
4 Aug: Lancashire Telegraph (UK). John Grafton, 62, retired early to fulfil his dreams has been diagnosed with terminal cancer after completing his ultimate challenge... He gave up work five years ago and drew up a tick sheet of things he wanted to do and crossed off rafting in Nepal, buying a Harley Davison and purchasing an apartment in Goa... But his biggest wish was to compete in the round-the-world clipper sailing race.... 481 words + photo. Full Text.
Mickky Pacheco Case - Understanding the Degeneration of Goa
4 Aug: NDTV. For a man who reportedly began earning his livelihood as a humble tailor to owning that wallet-emptying Hummer to now almost being accused of murdering his "close companion" 28-year-old Nadia Torrada, it has been one turbulent journey… a "Fight for Nadia Torrado" campaign on Facebook is perceived with utmost cynicism, as the work of vested interests… Mickky has promised more fireworks. "Wait and watch, how I get back. Mickky will remain Mickky. I am politically down, but I am not out." … 1450 words. Full Text.
Bahrain: Club gears up for Bandra fair
4 Aug: Gulf Daily News (Bahrain). The Young Goans Club (YGC) is gearing up to celebrate its popular annual Bandra Fair on Sept. 17 ... Every year, the feast of Mount Mary is celebrated in cities that have a high concentration of people of Goan origin, including London, Sydney and Montreal... 328 words. Full Text.
James D’Silva: Personal trainer of the stars
4 Aug: Fireze (Italy). At the 2010 Tuscan Sun Festival will beTrudie Styler, Sting’s wife and her personal guru James D'Silva who born and raised in Goa, India, lives in England from the age of 17 ... I have came many times to Tuscany as a guest of Trudie, he says ... 425 words + photo. Full Text.
Death: Antonia D’Costa
3 Aug: Patnem, Canacona, Goa. ANTONA CUTINHO E D’COSTA. (Born 1925). Wife of late Cristovam. Mother of late Inacio/Susan, Baptist/Luiza (Canada), Milagrin/late Francis, Carlotte/Michael. Grandmother of Veliny, Brian and Lesley (Canada), Alan, Alex, Stephen, Sonia. Great grandmother of Valerie. Funeral service on 4th August at 10 am at St Theresa of Jesus’ Church, Canacona.
UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
MUSIC: Jessica Simpson's The Price of Beauty. MTV (Sky 350)
Wednesday 4th Aug. 21:00 to 21:30. Jessica, Ken and CaCee in Mumbai.

CONSUMER: Selling Houses Abroad. Discovery Travel and Living (265)
Thursday 5th Aug. 15:00 to 16:00. Rebecca Andrade and her mum Janice have been trying to find a buyer for townhouse in the Portuguese town of Lagoa for over two years.

NATURE: King Cobra: Cannibal Snake. Nat Geo Wild (528)
Friday 6th Aug. 22:00 to 23:00. King cobras are one of the mysteries of the natural world.

DOCUMENTARY: Face the Facts. BBC Radio Four
Sunday 8th Aug. 21:00 to 21:26. John Waite talks to some of the hundreds of committed and hard-working immigration advisers who have been forced out of their jobs because they can't make it pay.

ARTS: Book of the Week. BBC Radio Four
Monday to Friday 9th - 14 Aug. 09:45 to 10:00. We are a Muslim, Please. Zaiba Malik's memoir of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being 'British' and 'Muslim'.

DOCUMENTARY: Desi Pubs. BBC Radio Four
Monday 9th Aug. 11:00 to 11:30. Bobby Friction looks at the changes and challenges facing the Desi (South Asian) pubs in the Asian community in the UK. The pub is a great British tradition, and as the Asian population established itself in Britain, the first Desi pub was opened in Southall.

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: Victorians Uncovered. History Channel
Wednesday 11th Aug. 22:00 to 23:00. Sex and The Empire. As Britain's influence in India grew, once relaxed attitudes to interracial relationships hardened, particularly after the Indian Mutiny of 1857.