GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER MON 30 AUGUST, 2010
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| Joseph Vaz movie premieres in Colombo | |||
 30 Aug: CathNews India. A film depicting the life of Blessed
Joseph Vaz has had its official premiere, amid year-long celebrations marking
the 300th anniversary of his death... Blessed Vaz was born in 1651, in Goa...
He was beatified in Colombo by Pope John Paul II in 1995. 267 words. Click
here. Sign the Petition to get Blessed Joseph Vaz Canonised...[782 signatures so far]. Go to http://www.PetitionOnline.com/JosephV/< | |||
| Canadian Goans muse over the days they knew ... | |||
29 Aug: Goa Net. Goa Masala, a new anthology, contains essays and stories by Goans based in Canada was released in Goa today. The anthology contains 41 essays including short stories and reminiscences...The aim is to keep alive memories of another time; a task specially crucial amidst a community believed to have one of the highest per capita out-migration rates in the world ... 1220 words. Further details of 'Goa Masala' may be obtained from Ben Antao (ben.antao at rogers.com) overseas or Goa,1556 (goa1556@gmail.com) in Goa. | |||
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News Summary | |||
| Zanzibar: Joaquim Mascarenhas: Stealing From the Church 30 Aug: The Sunday Citizen (Tanzania). Joaquim Mascarenhas of Oman, married to a Tanzanian woman from Zanzibar, was on holiday in Zanzibar when, according to him, some 50 Omani Rials (Over Sh195.000) in offerings to St. Joseph's Cathedral went missing from the Church... he hoped his decision to speak openly would help to trigger a wider debate on what he sees is a creeping problem of theft... 1191 words. Full Text. | |||
| Radio: Tanzania - Iringa and Zanzibar 28 Aug: BBC Radio 4. Sandi Toksvig goes to Tanzania and sees two very different aspects of the country - the market town of Iringa and the tropical island of Zanzibar. 30 minutes. Listen before 4 Sep. Full Text. | |||
| Goa beaches turn black, oil spill suspected 30 Aug: IBN Live. |An oil spill was reported from off the Goa coast on Monday evening. All big beaches have turned totally black and people are being evacuated from the area. A huge amount of tarball or solidified pieces of oil have surfaced at the beaches ... fishermen have been told to stay off. All beaches have been closed till Tuesday morning... 177 words. Full Text. | |||
| Vailankanni fest begins 29 Aug: UNI. The 11-day annual festival at ''Our Lady of Good Health'' began today ... Lakhs of people from across the State and country have thronged the shrine to take part in the festival, which would conclude on September 8 ... Southern Railway is operating special trains from Goa.. 199 words. From Grace Coutinho, gfcoutinho@btinternet.com: The Feast of Our Lady of Vailankanni is being celebrated on 8th September 2010 at 7.00 p.m. with Holy Mass followed by candle lit procession and burning of petitions and then fellowship at Keston Centre Car Park, Keston Road, London N17 6PWFull Text. | |||
| Goa: Demarcation of High Tide Line on Coastal Survey Plan 28 Aug: Press Inf. Bureau. Goa has completed the demarcation of High Tide Line onto the Cadastral Survey Plan ... the maps are available to the public at the Directorate of Settlement and Land Records and the Coastal Village Panchayats ... Steps are being taken to put up the maps on a website... 188 words. Full Text. | |||
| Dubai: Ralph Lobo: No sleep and lots of Red Bull 28 Aug: The National (UAE). Serious players such as Ralph Lobo know that Scrabble is not purely a word game. It’s also about strategy and probability and nerves – all of which Mr Lobo and other competitors from the UAE have focused on in the run-up to a major tournament this weekend in Sri Lanka. Different players have different styles. Mr Lobo, a 47-year-old engineer from India, is intense and systematic... 743 words. Full Text. more info... | |||
| Video + text: The News of the World exposes cricket match-fixing scandal 29 Aug: News of the World (UK). The News of the World has smashed a multi-million pound cricket match-fixing ring which rigged the current Lord's Test between England and Pakistan... the London-based fixer was Mazhar Majeed ... the bowlers were Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif ... Full Text. | |||
