GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 21 AUGUST, 2010
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| Swindon: Angelo de Mello : Manchester Road is a place of pride | |||
21 Aug: Swindon Advertiser. Manchester Road is often described as one of the most
colourful areas of Swindon... Angelo de Mello, 52, set up his brightly-decorated
restaurant Goan Bites back in May. He also works in the mortgage industry and
is a part-time musician. He said: "There is a massive Goan population in
the area and I thought it was high time someone opened a small restaurant for
them. Especially for the older people - it's somewhere they can pop in for a chat
and a cup of tea." ... For text + photo, click
here. For more photos, click here. Feb. 2003. Goa Today. Article on Manchester Road. Click here. Angelo de Mello is featured in Selma Carvalho's book, Into The Diaspora Wilderness. To read this small sample online, click here. To buy the book, click here. | |||
| China Machado: The Body Shop | |||
18 Aug: New York Times. China Machado, 80, was the first non-Caucasian model featured
in a national fashion magazine (Harper's Bazaar, in 1959) ... her exoticism- Portuguese,
Chinese, East Indian via Goa - failed to scandalize the French the way it later
did the American South... Click
here. China Machado's real name was Noelie DaSouza Machado. Mar. 2010. W Magazine. Profile (9 pages & 7 photos) Click here. | |||
News Summary | |||
| Video: First NDM-1 superbug case confirmed in Ontario 21 Aug: CTV Toronto.ca. Ontario has seen its first confirmed case of a drug-resistant superbug that is beginning to gain worldwide attention... Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's chief medical officer of health, said the patient "likely" acquired the infection in India after receiving medical treatment there... 6m. 34s. Full Text. | |||
| Bill to allow NRIs register names in electoral rolls 21 Aud: Economic Times (India). Bowing to the persistent demand for voting rights from Indians living outside the country, the government today introduced a bill in the Rajya Sabha to enable them to register their names in the electoral rolls... It is aimed at providing Indians, who have not acquired the citizenship of any other country and are away, entitlements to have their names registered in the electoral rolls... 244 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa drug mafia linked to terror outfits: NCP 21 Aug: IANS. Goa’s drug trade, in which police and politicians are allegedly involved, could be linked to terror outfits, a senior Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) spokesperson said Saturday... 224 words. Full Text. | |||
| Feature Article: The incredible politicians of Goa 22 Aug: Indian Express. Goa, where the whole of India escapes to drown its drudgery is the smallest and richest state of the country. But it is no paradise cocooned from the dysfunctional governance peculiar to the rest of India. Here are Mickky Pacheco ... Atanasio Monserrate ... Dayanand Narvekar ... Vishwajit Rane ... John Fernandes ... Mauvin Godinho ... Victoria Fernandes ... Churchill Alemao ... Joaquim Alemao ... the politicians seem to believe that they are a cut above the breed in the rest of India. “Goan politicians are not as bad as in the rest of the country. No one here has big money, not even Rs 100 crore,” says Aldona MLA Navarkar. Only in the absurd theatre of Goan politics can that be counted as a blessing. 1825 words. Full Text. | |||
| Right to productive living denied in Goa: Church 21 Aug: IANS. The Church in Goa Saturday said rights of residents to carve out a productive living was being forcibly denied in the state, where nearly 26 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. It also said Goa’s fragile, life-sustaining environment was in peril in view of sustained pillage of its ecology in the guise of development... 362 words. Full Text. | |||
| BJP Supports Kamat Over Remarks on Ex-Goa CM 21 Aug: Outlook. Goa Chief Minister Digamber Kamat has received support from an unexpected quarter over his reported statements dragging first state Chief Minister Dayanand Bandodkar and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in a controversy... 206 words. Full Text. | |||
| After blaming ex-Goa CM, Kamat says media misquoted him 21 Aug: South Asia Mail (Canada). Less than a week after dragging Goa's erstwhile tallest leader Dayanand Bandodkar and first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru into a controversy, Chief Minister Digambar Kamat Friday claimed that the media misquoted him... 300 words. Full Text. | |||
| World Goa Day: Konkani rocks 21 Aug: Times of India. Lorna ruled a 'World Goa Day' celebration in Panaji - one of many in Goan pockets across the world - on Friday... Remo Fernandes brought the curtains down on the event by performing Bebdo in duet with Lorna.... "I postponed my flight back to Germany just to witness this," gushed Cynthia Fernandes, a Goan settled in Dusseldorf... 773 words. Full Text. | |||
| World Goa Day: Emotional Integration of Goans Necessary 21 Aug: DaijiWorld. Falling in line with over 60 world wide organizations of the Community of Goans, Goa Day was observed in Vasco ... Former Deputy Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly Simon D’Souza, said that he was emotionally moved at the laudable work undertaken by Rene Barreto who took the lead in constituting the organization a decade ago and brought about integration of hearts... 549 words + photo. Full Text. | |||
