GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER FRI 01 JANUARY, 2010
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| Canada: Jordan de Souza: Maestro | ||
 31 Dec: Canwest News Service (Canada). One to Watch is not a bad title for Jordan de Souza… De Souza at 19 became the youngest player to be granted a fellowship from the Royal Canadian College of Organists, and with the highest marks… Scion of a musical family in Mississauga - his mother was a concert pianist in India and most of his six brothers are musicians - de Souza attended St. Michael's Choir School in Toronto… 353 words | ||
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| Bishop Agnelo Gracias: Hospital’s pro-life stance applauded | ||
 30 Dec. UCAN. Church leaders have applauded a hospital’s decision not to allow a patient, Aruna Shanbag, who has been comatose for the past 36 years, to die by withholding nutrition from her… Applauding the ruling, Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Gracias of Bombay said Shanbag “should definitely be allowed to live.” Depriving her of nutrition would amount to murder by starvation, the prelate told UCA News… 417 words + photo. Auxiliary Bishop Agnelo Gracias is ex-Mombasa, the brother of Flavio Gracias | ||
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| Video: New Year Celebrations in Goa | ||
 1 Jan: NDTV. Scenes from Baga Beach as Goa partys hard to welcome the New Year in style. 2m. 0s.
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| Goa ushers in New Year 2010 1 Jan: Navhind Times. Pealing of bells, midnight masses, grand display of fireworks and dances ushered in the New Year, even as thousands of tourists, including top-notch politicians, legal luminaries, cine artists, etc joined Goans in celebrating the arrival of the year 2010… 339 words. Full Text. | ||
| Goa: 2009 News Review 31 Dec: UNI. Terrorist threat and crime against foreign women posed a new challenge to this international tourist destination of Goa, even as the Congress-led coalition government headed by Digambar Kamat remains surprisingly stable without any destabilisation manoeuvres in the year 2009 that passes by… 1181 words. Full Text. | ||
| Top 10 party scenes in history 1 Jan: Reuters… AskMen.com has some up with a list of the ultimate party scenes … Goa in the 1970s. This small beachside town was probably the biggest drug and sex scene of the time. It became such a phenomenon that more than a few books were written about the power of Goa in the '70s, the most notable being Cleo Odzer's "Goa Freaks." Full Text. | ||
| Videos: Drug death shakes Goa party scene 31 Dec: NDTV. 2m. 29s. Click here. Full Text. | ||
| Colva Agitation: Gov Govt prohibits broadcasting of controversial CD 31 Dec: UNI. In an action construed as muzzling the freedom of the media, the Goa government today prohibited broadcasting of clippings related to a controversial CD that exposed some alleged malpractices of a catholic priest in South Goa's popular tourist village of Colva. Some of the TV channels, particularly Goa 365 had broadcast the clippings… 754 words. Full Text. | ||
| What happened at Colva is no surprise at all: Aires Rodrigues 31 Dec: UNI. ''What has happened at Colva is no surprise at all and there is no room for holy hooliganism,'' noted social activist and high court advocate Aires Rodrigues said. ''In 2004, the church had orchestrated it in Ribandar… 577 words. Full Text. | ||
| Video: Colva's Controversial CD - Dogui Bodmas 31 Dec: JoeGoaUK. Extracts from the title song. 1m. 43s. Click here. For a photo of the front and back covers, with synopsis of the plot, click here. For the Gomantak Times article of 31 Dec. click here. | ||
| Melbourne may ban Asian nights 30 Dec: Herald Sun (Australia). Lord Mayor Robert Doyle says Melbourne needs to consider whether to ban Asian nights or other theme evenings at bars. Some police hold significant concerns about the race-themed nights held regularly at city venues. Cr Doyle's comments came after brawling early on Christmas Day in which gangs of men were involved in two separate conflicts at an Asian night at the CQ Bar… 401 words + comments. Full Text. | ||
| Russian Rape: Officer Heading Investigations Seeks Transfer 31 Dec: Outlook. A woman police officer heading investigations of the Russian girl rape case, involving a politician, has requested her transfer from the Crime Branch to the Goa Reserve Police … 242 words. Full Text. | ||