GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER FRI 15 JANUARY, 2010
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| Canada: Carlo De Mello: Under 40 Award Winner | |||
 Jan 2010. Business in Vancouver. Issue 1053. An 18-month secondment to KPMG’s London office turned into a five-year stint for Carlo De Mello, age 38. …. Mombasa-born De Mello says, “My parents moved here really to create opportunities for their children, and they made huge sacrifices for our family, and all this is gravy compared to what they’ve done for us.” … 526 words. Carlo is the youngest son of Juanita (Vancouver) and late Bernard D’Mello; brother of Cedric (Professor of Engineering in London), Mark a chartered accountant (Vancouver) and Violet a lecturer in Vancouver. Carlo is married to Sofia and they have two children. | |||
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| Death: Remy Fernandes | |||
4 Jan: London (UK). JOAQUIM REMEDIOS (Remy) FERNANDES (ex Mombasa). Husband of Ana Celina.
Son of Mrs Sebastiana and the late Nicolas Fernandes. Brother to Alex/Felcy, Flora/Peter
Pacheco, Anthony/Olinda, Peter/Laura, John/Goretti, Pascal/Ivy, Agnelo/Sharmilee,
Rosy and the late Effie/Tony. Uncle to 23 nieces and nephews. Funeral will be held on Monday 25th Jan 2010 at 10.00am at St Ignatius RC Church, 27 High Road, London N15 6ND. Followed by the burial at 11.30am at Wood Green Cemetery, Wood Lane, London N22. Condolences to alex_ferny@live.co.uk | |||
| Video: Dr Agnelo Fernandes on safety in out-of-hours care | |||
 14 Jan: Pulse (UK).
The Royal College of General Practitioners' clinical champion for urgent and emergency care, Dr Agnelo Fernandes,
explains how the '111' number could help improve the standard of out-of-hours
care… Pulse deputy editor spoke to Dr Fernandes at his surgery in Croydon… 8m.
04s. Click
here. Dr Agnelo is ex-Margao & Nairobi. For the GVUK supplement, click here. | |||
| UK: New Event Announcement | |||
Sun 14 Feb. From 2:30pm-8pm.Viva Goa Entertainment uk presents "Red
n Black Carni-Val-entine 2010". At Old Actonian Association Sport
Club, Gunnersbury Drive,W5 4LL (Opposite Gunnersbury Park, Acton/Ealing). Live
Music by Second Nature & Chico. Entrance: Adults £10 & Children
5-12 years £4. Fun for all ages. Contact Francisco 02089329375/07957206169;
Norman Cortez 02086471887 07767277471, Charles Dias 07809552654. | |||
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News Summary | |||
| Competition: Win a Holiday in India 15 Jan: Victoria & Albert Museum. Abercrombie & Kent and Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces have joined together to offer a competition prize of a 7 night stay in India, including return economy flights on Jet Airways and accommodation at the splendid Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces… Full Text. | |||
| Rumblings in Goa government, Congress says all is well 15 Jan: IANS. Some legislators and ministers in the Congress-led coalition government in Goa are unhappy with the way the administration is being run and a few are even tentatively seeking a change of leadership. But the Congress has denied any discontentment… 477 words. Full Text. | |||
| Senior Goa cop’s son may be held in accident case 15 Jan: IANS. The son of Goa’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) K.D. Singh may be arrested for his alleged involvement in a road accident here, a top police official said Friday. 247 words. Full Text. | |||
| No estimate of drug trade volume in Goa: Police 15 Jan: IANS. The police do not have an estimate of the quantum of illicit drug trade in Goa. 312 words. Full Text. | |||
| Land of no Hope 15 Jan: The Telegraph (Calcutta). The ridiculous visa policy recently introduced by the government of India has left us gaping in disbelief and bewilderment. It makes no sense at all… This is not the 18th century, when you had to come around the Cape of Good Hope! 622 words. Full Text. | |||
| Russia: Who was in Goa? 14 Jan: Woman (Russia). Russian women discuss Goa. Machine translation. Full Text. | |||
| CBI chargesheet Atanasio and Rohit Monserrate 15 Jan: Navhind Times. It has been revealed that the Central Bureau of Investigation has chargesheeted the Education Minister, Mr Atanasio Monserrate in the Panaji police station attack case. The CBI has also filed a chargesheet in the court against Mr Rohit Monserrate, the son of Mr Atanasio Monserrate, in the case relating to his relationship with a minor German girl. 598 words. Full Text. | |||
| Congress attempt to quell revolt in Goa 15 Jan: Asian Age. By Pamela D’Mello. The Congress began a late night damage control exercise to quell a brewing revolt amongst some of its legislators demanding a leadership change… 231 words. Full Text. | |||
| Sunburn Music Festival in Goa 15 Jan: Economic Times. What happens when a music festival gets buried under scandal? The music gets forgotten and contradictory questions of morality and privacy creeps in. That’s exactly what happened to the three-day Sunburn Music Festival in Goa that ended towards the wee end of 2009… 788 words. Full Text. | |||
| Goa Attempts to Censor Bikini-Clad Women From Tourism Ads 14 Jan: Jaunted – the Pop Culture Travel Guide. … Goa's image problem has nothing to do with "bad tourists" vs. "good tourists," whatever that means. It comes from the wave of rapes and molestations, committed mostly by residents, that local officials have been unable to stop… 381 words. Full Text. | |||
| A Taste of Goa and Portugal 15 Jan: Jornal Digital (Portugal). Francisco Sousa, owner of the restaurant "Casa Portuguesa” is a man dedicated to all trades, a lawyer, athlete, musician and fado singer… When he opened the restaurant, Francisco had a menu geared more towards Goan cuisine, but at present, the menu consists mainly of traditional Portuguese dishes and four Goan dishes … 692 words + photo. Machine translation. Full Text. | |||
| Getting Jiggy with Jade 15 Jan: Daily News & Analysis. The popular jam band Something Relevant released their debut album Feels Good To Be Live recently. Heritage Jazz (a music organisation) offered the band to do a couple of gigs in Goa… “We did a show in the courtyard of a chilled out Goan guy called Armando Gonsalves. It was lovely,” says bass guitarist for the band, Stuart DaCosta… the band bumped into Mick Jagger’s daughter Jade Jagger at the gig, who was accompanying her boyfriend DJ Dan Williams for his tour… “look at the Goans, they are so chilled out.” 348 words. Full Text. | |||
| Majority of street children in India face sex abuse 14 Jan: PTI. In damning statistics, a government study has found that a vast majority of street children face sexual abuse in India, which is home to the world's largest number of destitute children… The study covered 13 states, including Goa… 157 words. Full Text. | |||
| Video: British fugitive Ajay Kaushal attacks jailor 14 Jan: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. In a first case of assault on a Jailor by an inmate at the Sub jail at Sada in Vasco, Britain’s most wanted fugitive Ajay Kaushal allegedly attacked Mukund Gawas without any reason on Wednesday evening… 2m. 54s. Full Text. | |||
| Video: BJP rules out backing rebel group, prefers fresh polls 14 Jan: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. Firmly ruling out backing the rebel group of 7 non-Congress MLAs to form a new Government, the Bharatiya Janata Party state President Shripad Naik has said that the BJP would demand fresh polls in the state. 3m. 20s. Full Text. | |||
| Video: Anti-narcotic cell seizes drugs and gold from Anjuna drug peddler 14 Jan: Goa 365 via Navhind Times. In an anti narcotics raid on Wednesday, Goa police arrested Sadanand Chimulkar (37), an alleged drug peddler in Anjuna and seized drugs from him worth Rs 4 lakh… Full Text. | |||
