GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER TUE 09 FEBRUARY, 2010
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| Goa: Wildlife activist named as abettor in tiger killing | ||
 9 Feb: IANS. Renowned wildlife activist Rajendra Kerkar (photo) has been named by the Goa forest department as an abettor in the killing of a tiger. However, Kerkar denied the charge. Kerkar, a tireless green activist and a journalist, has repeatedly accused top officials of the Goa forest department of sabotaging the tiger poaching probe… 348 words. | ||
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| Football: Churchill Alemao invites Scolari to visit Goa | ||
 9 Feb: UNI. Churchill Alemao, has invited Luis Felipe Scolari (photo), the world's highest-paid football coach weho has earned 13 million euros for a 18-month contract, to India… Scolari led his native Brazil to World Cup victory in 2002 and took Portugal to Euro 2008 … he met Churchill in the UAE last week … 470 words.
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| Starting Early: Inir Pinheiro, 29 | ||
 8 Feb: India Today. Pinheiro's venture, Grassroutes,
aims to develop a network of village tourism destinations across India which are
managed by local village communities… Being from Goa, Pinheiro realises the
ecological damage tourism can lead to. In an effort to avoid this happening to
the natural rural habitat, the number of tourists are limited to 40… He plans
to expand to six villages in 2010… | ||
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| Tony Fernandes: AirAsia Aims for a Full Flight in India | ||
 8 Feb: Forbes. Tony Fernandes, the feisty owner of AirAsia, has focussed his sights on India… There is also an emotional reason why Fernandes is keen on India. His family hails from Goa. “My dad would have been over the moon to see AirAsia connect to India,” he says, “If I can’t make it work here, I might as well pack up and go back to the music business.”… 1705 words.
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| Goa Second Homes Agitation may spill onto streets 9 Feb: Asian Age. By Pamela DMello. Discontent over second home apartment projects mushrooming in sensitive eco-zone areas of Goa, is threatening to spill onto the streets in a repeat of the state’s 2006 anti-regional plan agitation… 231 words. Full Text. | ||
| Dealer's drugs sent in post 9 Feb: Bristol Evening Post. Todd Dent imported £30,000 worth of ketamine from Goa and complained to undercover police officers his post was late when the package finally arrived… Dent told officers he had arranged for drugs to be sent but had expected valium and steroids, not ketamine… he was jailed for 15 months when he appeared at Bristol Crown Court … Photo + 407 words. Full Text. | ||
| Australian Violence and Goa Rape 9 Feb: Hindustan Times. The police chief of the Australian state of Victoria Simon Overland suggested Indians "try to look as poor" as they can. His logic is similar to that of many Indians here who want foreigners in Goa to stop wearing bikinis … a burqa, of course, would be best… 373 words. Full Text. | ||
| Mumbai: American Express Bakery at Byculla 9 Feb: MiDDay. American Express Bakery at Byculla's Clare Road is run by the fourth generation of the Carvalho family that's been running the bakery since the 1920s. Today, they remain one of the last significant Goan family-run businesses in Mumbai. 767 words + photo. Full Text. | ||
| Funeral details added: Ulric Lobo 29 Jan: Letchworth, Herts, UK. JULIAN ULRICO LOBO (ex Kampala, Uganda). Beloved husband of Ursula. Dear brother of the late Justo/late Barbara; late Bonnie/Louise; Maura/Johnny; Florencio/Denise. The funeral will take place on Mon.15 Feb. Mass: 11.30am Parish of St Hugh of Lincoln, 84 Pixmore Way, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 3TP. Burial: 12.30pm at Wilbury Hills Cemetery, Stortford Road. 1.00pm Final Goodbye at Doughtys Brasserie G14, Fairfield Hall, Hitchen Road, Stortford, Hertfordshire, SG5 4HP Condolences may be sent to jon_lobo@hotmail.com | ||
| Swindon: Margarida Gonsalves: Cleanest Toilets in the UK Award 22 Jan. Swindon Advertiser. Margarida Gonsalves from McDonalds on Great Western Way has been awarded with the Loo of the year award for having the cleanest toilets in the UK … Photo and text at the link below (image id: 55-toilets) more info... | ||
| Keith Vaz Joins Indian Law Firm 8 Feb: The Times (UK). Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East and Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, is joining Indian law firm FoxMandal Little as a consultant in London… Full Text. | ||
| PayPal Suspends Payments To India 8 Feb: InformationWeek (USA). Along with personal payments in and out of the country, PayPal suspended transfers to local banks in India… 333 words. Full Text. | ||
| Priest loses six relatives in Karachi blast 9 Feb: CathNews Asia. A Catholic priest has lost six relatives in twin blasts in Pakistan’s commercial capital that left at least 33 people dead and wounded scores of others, many critically. More than a thousand Christians attended the funeral of the six Catholics who died in the Feb. 5 bomb explosions in Karachi … Archbishop Evarist Pinto celebrated the Mass with 37 priests… 459 words. Full Text. | ||
| Scotland: Roshan Dantis had nose broken in prison assault [I only came across this recent item today. It may explain why he prefers to serve his sentence in Goa] 22 Jan: Daily Record (Scotland). Roshan Dantis, 30, was attacked less than 48 hours after a jury found him guilty of murder … Dantis has a long sentence to serve and this is just a taste of what lies ahead. Rapists and women killers are despised by the rest of the prison population … 310 words. Full Text. | ||
| Editorial: Goa: A "Rape City"? 8 Feb: Central Chronicle *India). Is Goa the "rape city" of the country, as described by its Tourism Minister Mickey Pachecho? The answer could turn out to be in the affirmative, if the ruling Congress-NCP Government doesn't get its act together… 295 words. Full Text. | ||
| Goa: Christians, Muslims and Hindus celebrate Carnival together 8 Feb: Jornal de Noticias (Portugal). … the shows will take place 13 to 16 February in Panjim, Margao, Vasco and Mapusa … 92 words. Full Text. | ||
| Now, even domestic tourists are wary of visiting Goa 8 Feb: Daily News & Analysis…Travel Agents Federation of India (Tafi) president Pradeep Lulla, “Look at what’s happening in Australia or Goa.” … “Developments such as these prove highly negative for the travel industry since people start looking upon these places as unsafe. Now, even domestic tourists are wary of visiting Goa,” said a Kolkata-based travel agent. Full Text. | ||
| Video: Old Goa police arrest Assailants of the Panch 8 Feb: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. The Old Goa police on Sunday arrested four persons on charges of attacking the Old Goa Panch Vinayak Phadte on Friday. The accused are taken into 4 days police remand after they were produced in a local court on Monday. 2m. 55s. Full Text. | ||