GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER THU 25 FEBRUARY, 2010
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| Goan Voice Changeover Time | |||
The Goan Voice website changeover to the next day will take place at midnight GMT in future instead of midday. Subscribers to the daily newsletter will have their copies mailed at midnight GMT instead of midday GMT. The next issue to be mailed to subscribers will be at midnight, Friday 26 Feb.
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Photo Gallery | |||
| Slough, UK: Cruz Lobo: “I lived in a garage with 11 other people” | |||
 25 Feb: The Telegraph (UK). Slough has always welcomed immigrants, but says: enough is enough… Cruz Lobo, 64, a council street-sweeper originally from Goa, arrived in Slough in 2007 … "When I came to Slough, I lived in a garage with 11 other people," says Lobo. The ebullient former merchant seaman's ready smile and infectious laugh jarringly at odds with his experience as a member of Slough's underclass… Lobo sends money home to his wife and four children in Portugal every month … 1731 words. | |||
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| Suresh Kanekar's Debut Novel: Of Mangoes and Monsoons | |||
24 Feb: PR Web. … this endearing narrative takes readers back in time to
Goa of fifty years ago and gives a compelling factual description of the freedom
movement … For full text, 513 words, click
here. Suresh Kanekar is currently a research professor of psychology at San Diego, California. The photo shows him in action at the US Open Table Tennis championship. For a video interview with him, click here. For a video clip of him playing table tennis, click here. To order a copy of the book, click here. | |||
| UK: Forthcoming Event | |||
 Sat. 6 Mar: 6.00 pm. Portuguese Nationality. Miguel
Reis & Associados, a Portuguese law firm and Goan
Support India, are organising a talk in London to explain the rights and privileges
of Portuguese Citizenship, with particular application for the especial case of
people born in the former Portuguese State of India (Goa, Daman, Diu, Dadra and
Nagar-Haveli) and their descendents. Attendance is free but there are limited
seats. Please email GoanSupport@gmail.com
to reserve a place. Location: Indian YMCA,
Conference Room - 41 Fitzroy Square - London W1T 6AQ. Nearest Underground Stations
are: Great Portland Street, Goodge Street and Warren Street. For full details
click here.
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| Video: Goa is acquiring a Drug and Sex trade destination label: GCCI | |||
 24 Feb: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. Goa is earning a bad name with the state slowly
emerging as a drug and sex destination, Goa's apex commerce body said... 6m. 51s.
Click here. Goa 'becoming sex and drugs haven' 24 Feb: Belfast Telegraph. 225 words. Click here. | |||
News Summary | |||
| Goa police hand-in-glove with organised sex mafia: Official 25 Feb: IANS. A senior Goa police intelligence official has publicly admitted that the state is emerging as a den for the organized sex mafia and the local police are often hand-in-glove with the criminals… young Goan women have been getting involved in the business of prostitution… 400 words. Full Text. | |||
| Top tourist spot’s Goa to the dogs 25 Feb. Daily Sport (UK). Goa is becoming a centre for the sex trade and drugs, according to a leading business group. Cesar Menezes, president of the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, said: “Goa is getting a bad name – emerging as a drug and sex destination.” … Full Text. | |||
| Toronto: Culinary students fret over fees 25 Feb: Toronto Star. Indians wonder if they'll get money back after school shut down amid allegations it's illegal… Full Text. | |||
| UK: Rebecca Mascarenhas: Food Buzz 25 Feb: Bloomberg. Booking is open for the one-night pop-up restaurants raising funds for Haiti at the Phoenix, in Putney, and some evenings have sold out… Rebecca Mascarenhas, the restaurateur behind the event. “People have been sweet and fantastic: It’s going so well,” she said. Full Text. more info... | |||
| Keith Vaz: Political lobby interests disclosed 25 Feb: Law Society Gazette… Keith Vaz, Labour MP for Leicester East, is now paid £2,500 a month as a consultant to Indian firm Fox Mandal Little ‘on legal matters and especially on the Asian diaspora in the UK and abroad’. Full Text. | |||
| Football: Churchill Brothers Walk Off The Field In Local Tournament! 25 Feb: Goal.com. In what is yet another bizzare incident in Indian football, a Police Cup quarter final game between Sporting Clube de Goa and Churchill Brothers had to be abandoned after the I-League champions walked off the field two minutes into extra time… 387 words. Full Text. | |||
| James Fernandes: Medics' Indian mission 25 Feb: Sheffield Telegraph (UK). A team from Sheffield Children's Hospital visited India to perform life-changing operations on youngsters. Eight surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre nurses, plus a senior nurse from Barnsley Hospital, carried out operations on 85 children in a week in Bangalore. The team, led by consultant orthopaedic surgeon James Fernandes, worked up to 14 hours a day… 270 words. Full Text. | |||
| From Russia with love? Well, not really 25 Feb. Goa tourism's honeymoon with Russia seems to have taken a bitter turn … 1112 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa police hunt for Israeli drug dealer’s girlfriend 25 Feb: IANS. Anti narcotics sleuths are tracking down the Kazakh girlfriend of Dudu, an alleged Israeli drug peddler arrested in Goa for possesing durgs worth Rs 3.81 lakh… 257 words. Full Text. | |||
| Video: Barrister Lloyd Rayney says 'I'm doing the best I can' 25 Feb: Perth Now. Barrister Lloyd Rayney speaks briefly about his life after being named by police as the only suspect in the murder of his wife, Corryn. He is suing the State Government over the claim… 1m. 33s. Full Text. more info... | |||
| Video: UK student visa system fraud exposed 24 Feb. BBC. An undercover investigation by BBC Newsnight has exposed fraud at the heart of the student visa system. The programme was able to buy two bogus visa documents which would have virtually guaranteed entry to the UK. One cost £200, the other just £150… Watch the full report on Newsnight on Wednesday 24 February 2010 at 2230 on BBC Two, or afterwards on the BBC iPlayer. Full Text. | |||
| Few low budget visitors create problems, feels tourism department 25 Feb: Navhind Times. The officials in the tourism department say that most of the Russian tourists are decent people … Most of the top class Russians coming to Goa prefer to stay in five star hotels … The director of Tourism, Mr Swapnil Naik said that the government would initiate some measures to maintain harmony among the tourists and the locals… 680 words. Full Text. | |||
| Many Bodies. One Goal 25 Feb: Times of India. Where the fish are jumpin' and the feni is fine, entices all manner of foreign and desi visitors… two large alabaster-skinned women lying face down, topless and a dark thickly bespectacled gent with a hitched up lungi, called out to his companions on the shore, "Naked women!" … The two ageing sunbathers had woken up. And were letting fly angry German and gesticulating wildly with their hands before wobbling off in the direction of the deluxe beach resort… 418 words. Full Text. | |||
| Russian girl identifies main accused 25 Feb: Herald. A nine-year-old Russian girl in her deposition before the Children’s Court on Wednesday identified the main accused … She will be further cross-examined on Thursday. 303 words. Full Text. | |||
| Freida Pinto to play priestess 24 Feb: Press Association. Freida Pinto is to play an oracle priestess in War Of The Gods…. 124 words. Full Text. | |||
| Boozing Christ web error 24 Feb: Africa.com. The publisher of an Indian school textbook that included a picture of Jesus Christ with a beer can and cigarette said the image was taken from the internet and used by mistake, a report said on Wednesday… 306 words. Full Text. | |||
| Video: An outbreak of Chikungunya feared in Bastora 24 Feb: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. The health authorities have begun fogging operations at Tar in the Bastora village after 17 cases of Chikungunya have been confirmed which has created panic among the locals… 7m. 39s. Full Text. | |||
