GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 14 AUGUST, 2010
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| Video: Goa - Lyrics and Music by Jacinta Luis | ||
 14 Aug: You Tube. 5m. 16s. Composed for World Goa Day at the invitation of Rene
Barreto. Click here.
Jacinta Luis is a pianist, singer, composer and professor of music (at Dawson College ) in Montreal . She was born in Dar-es-salaam , Tanzania , and moved to Montreal in 1971. | ||
| Edinburgh Festival: Miranda by Farrukh Dondy | ||
 14 Aug: Herald (Scotland)... When director of Tara Arts, Jatimder Verma, read
the script of Miranda, by renaissance man of letters Farrukh Dondy, he made the
radical suggestion that its lead female character, a wannabe Bollywood actress
who finds herself drawn from a cocktail bar in Goa into a touring production of
Shakespeare's Tempest, be played by male actor/dancer ... Star rating: ***** Click
here. Edinburgh Festival Guide: Miranda - the story of sex, desire and revenge in the heat of Goa ... Click here. | ||
| Little Joseph Pinto wins a big modelling contract | ||
 13 Aug: Kent Messenger (UK). Four-year-old Joseph Pinto is the new face of an advertising campaign for Debenhams. Joseph, of Ashford Road, Bearsted, beat thousands of other hopefuls to model the chain's new Bluezoo children's range and win a spot on the company's modelling books... Joseph's dad Peter, said: "It was such an incredibly exciting day when he won the national competition ... 158 words Peter is married to an Australian. His father ran the Harry Pinto Orchestra in Madras. | ||
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News Summary | ||
| India's visa rule is unfairly persecuting Pakistanis 14 Auf: The Guardian (UK). ... Looking behind a British passport and treating an individual differently, because they or their parents were born in Pakistan, is direct or indirect racial discrimination violating UK, European and international human rights law. It cannot be justified under any circumstances, because it is a first step down a very slippery slope of racism... 823 words. [Ed: Similarly, looking behind British passports and treating individuals differently with regard to visas and/or property ownership because they are of Indian origin is discriminatory and illegal. We would be crying foul if the British Govt. gave special benefits to people of “Anglo-Saxon” origin] Full Text. | ||
| Russian jailed in Goa because of expired visa 14 Aug: Kazan (Russia). On his arrival in Goa, Alexander Solomin was issued with a month’s visa which expired on April 25 ... He heard of his mother’s death and on 29 May was arrested when he sought to leave ... Usually foreigners are fines about $100 for such an offence but the Court considered his case and sentenced him to imprisonment for a year ... The jail sentence is required to restore the honor of our country, said the judge ... 827 words. Machine translation. Full Text. | ||
| Anglo-Indians: Remnants of a colonial past 14 Aug: International Herald Tribune. Anglo-Indians flourished with a unique lifestyle, but the culture is fading ... Under the Indian Constitution the term Anglo-Indian means an Indian citizen whose paternal line can be traced back to Europe... Mr. Booth’s definition of Anglo-Indian is rather stricter than the Constitution’s. He regards Goans with Portuguese and French ancestry who claim the distinction as pretenders ... 1273 words + photos. Full Text. | ||
| Not easy to find a suitable boy 13 Aug: Goan Observer. By Melba Mergulhão-Carvalho Antão. Goan girls make marriage their third priority after higher education and pursuit of a career. They prefer waiting for a really suitable boy which is becoming increasing difficult because suitable boys have taken wing to greener pastures outside Goa... 2085 words. Full Text. | ||
| Death: Esther Flora Pecus 13 Aug: Karachi. ESTHER FLORA PECUS. Beloved mother of Thrasilla (John) Noronha, Cassilda (Valentine) D'souza and Gervase. Loving grandmother of Calvin, Clyde, Anne-Marie and Joshua. Sister of Louis (Fransesca) Fernandes, Sylvia (Fermin) Gonsalves, Irene Coates (Raymond), late Vivian Azhar, Noel Fernandes, Gerry Fernandes and the late Felix Fernandes. Sister in law of Aelred (Mavis) Pecus. [Info from Pompie Gois] | ||
| Gregory Fernandes Death: Luke Pritchard guilty of revenge attack 14 Aug: Daily Echo (UK). Jurors took three hours and 39 minutes to unanimously find Luke Pritchard guilty of battering Jody Miles in a Southampton pub... Mr Miles had given key evidence leading to the conviction of his teenage brother, Stephen Pritchard, jailed for six and half years for the manslaughter of Gregory Fernandes ... Pritchard will be sentenced on Friday, August 20. 373 words. Full Text. | ||
| Now, Goans can air their grievances online 14 Aug: Herald. The Directorate of Public Grievances, Government of Goa has launched a system to monitor grievances across government organizations... The system will be available online on the website www.grievances.goa.govt.in from August 15 ... Full Text. | ||
| Experience not to be worth its weight for shacks 14 Aug: Herald. The Tourism Dept. has now proposed to remove the criteria giving weightage to experience in shack allocation ... Full Text. | ||
| Oscar Rebello Resignation from GBA 14 Aug: Times of India. GBA wants Oscar to revoke resignation. Click here. 14 Aug: Herald. Letters. Click here. | ||
| Art controversy and Goan Modernities 14 Aug: Herald. By Teotónio R De Souza. Western-trained modernists need to respect cultural traditions of former colonies ... 1195 words. Full Text. | ||
| Aires Rodrigues complains to police authority 14 Aug: Times of India. Social activist Aires Rodrigues has approached the Goa state police complaint authority alleging that in the last three years police inspectors have "gone out of their way to shield and protect health minister Vishwajit Rane from facing criminal prosecution"... 365 words. Full Text. | ||