GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SUN 24 JANUARY, 2010
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| Rumbles in the Indian jungle: You get no food for five days and enemas are compulsory | ||
 24 Jan: The Observer (UK). Beach House in Goa … The set is beautiful. Right
on the beach, the main house has a large, bright living area with floor-to-ceiling
glass doors, comfy sofas and a coffee table laden with health-related books…
Set up by former pharmacist and entrepreneur Ajit Patel, the resort falls somewhere
in between spa and clinic… 1216 words. Click
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| Athens, GA, US: John Fernandes: Getting to Know... Supercluster | ||
 22 Jan: Paste Magazine. John Fernandes plays assorted instruments for Supercluster … John also has Cloud Recordings, which has bands like Circulatory System and Olivia Tremor Control...
John’s father, Joseph is a chemical engineer from Goa, who moved to the US in 1960’s and lives in Noryh Carolina.
For a wikipedia profile of John, select the link below.
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| Goa: Grape Escapade festival opens | ||
 24 Jan: Navhind Times. The Grape Escapade wine and haute cuisine festival was inaugurated by the Tourism Minister, Mr Francisco Xavier ‘Mickey’ Pacheco at the INOX courtyard on January 23… 144 words. | ||
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| Video: Goa Youth Congress does a volte face re Gandhi’s visit | ||
23 Jan: Goa 265 via Navhind Times. The controversy over the Goa university campus being allegedly used for political event of Congress Youth Leader Rahul Gandhi deepened further with Sankalp Amolkar (photo) of the Goa Pradesh Youth Congress Committee denying that they were the organizers of the event … 4m. 03s.
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| Swindon: Goan Health Day: Saturday 6 Feb. 24 Jan: NHS & Swindon Borough Council. Are you Goan? Living in Swindon? Worried about your health? Free Health Check & Help on Saturday 6 February 2010. From 11am to 5pm - Broadgreen Community Centre, Salisbury Street, SN1 2AN. Free Goan food & Live Music. For further information contact: Nan Bains, 0774 003 8005 OR Pepi James, 0782 482 3355 | ||
| Drugs package from India intercepted at sorting office 23 Jan: The Sentinel (UK). Valerie McDowall, 45, has been handed a suspended prison sentence after she imported Class-C drugs from Goa. She pleaded guilty to two charges of importing of 1,500 diazepam tablets and 1,400 nitrazepam tablets on March 17 last year… The defendant admitted she had been to Goa nine times and told police she owed money there for accommodation and damage to a hire vehicle… 290 words. Full Text. | ||
| Martyn meets young Slumdog stars 24 Jan: Bury Times (UK). Podiatrist Martyn Sherman regularly takes a break from Happy Feet Clinic, in Manchester Road, Bury, to treat the children living in Goa. During a recent trip, the 44-year-old met youngsters Rubina Ali and Ayush Mahesh Khedekar at the Bandra slum … Full Text. | ||
| Death: Liana (Bhaiee) Castelino DeSouza 21 Jan: Anjuna, Goa. LIANA (BHAIEE) CASTELINO DESOUZA. Loving daughter of late B. J. Lewis Desouza & late Olivia Castelino DeSouza. Sister of Vilma Desouza / late Angelo, Cirilo Desouza /Shirley, Germany, Belita / Francis Rebelo, U.K. Funeral service on Sunday, 24th Jan. at 4 p.m. at St. Michael’s Church, Anjuna. | ||
| Gordon Ramsay's F-words in India spark a viewer backlash 24 Jan: Mail on Sunday (UK). Gordon Ramsay has been criticised for his 'disrespectful' treatment of Indian chefs in his latest show. More than 100 viewers complained to Channel 4 about his behaviour on Gordon's Great Escape. The 43-year-old restaurateur described an Indian guru as 'Father Christmas' and repeatedly used obscenities when speaking to locals… 357 words. Click here. To watch the programmes, click here. | ||
| Heading to the chapel...to eat 24 Jan: Times of India. Tucked away in the annex of the Ribandar chapel is a counter, behind which a man is busy frying chops with one hand, while plating a chilly fry with the other. George Texeira, who runs this small business, is a very busy man right from 6pm to 9pm. Between keeping up with the constant flow of people, he always manages a kind smile to all his customers... 560 words. Full Text. | ||
| Canada: Dr. Colin Saldanha: Who can save the ROM this time? 23 Jan: Globe and Mail (Canada). The challenge is to find a leader who can not only pull the Royal Ontario Museum onto solid financial ground, but also make it into a place Toronto loves again… Dr. Colin Saldanha, a ROM trustee, said he doesn't care which field the winning candidate comes from… Saldanha, who runs a family practice clinic in Mississauga, said that many of the patients he sees - new immigrants who live outside the city core - haven't even heard of the ROM, much less visited it… Full Text. | ||
| Wife worried about missing German doc 23 Jan: Deccan Herald. The wife of a German psychiatrist says she is extremely nervous about her husband's sudden disappearance from Anjuna, three days ago. Dr Juergen Dapprich, 56, has been missing since January 19… The Dapprichs settled in Anjuna in 2002. They run a cloth business on the coast and their two daughters study in a local school… 169 words. Full Text. | ||
| New Zealand: Anniversary road trip ends in death in Goa 24 Jan: New Zealand Herald. Peter Lees, 72, from Auckland's North Shore, died in Goa on Monday after getting off a tour bus … A local media report said police were investigating but his daughter said that the death was a "random accident". 556 words + photo. Full Text. | ||
| Video: Friday Balcao Tenth Anniversary 22 Jan: GoaMovie. Clipping of the 10th Anniversary function of the unique discussion forum of Goa - Friday Balcao - held at Mapusa on 22nd Jan 2010. 2m. 38s. Full Text. | ||
| Goa: New schemes for senior citizens on the cards 24 Jan: Navhind Times. The government has started the exercise of formulating new welfare schemes for senior citizens in the state … the senior citizen population in Goa is between 80,000 and 90,000… 500 words. Full Text. | ||
| Goa: Divorce cases on rise, says Catholic guild 24 Jan: Herald. The Church in Goa is seized of the rising number of divorce cases in the Catholic community, even though it has remained tight-lipped on the numbers every year … Goa reportedly registered 384 divorce cases in 2007. 231 words. Full Text. | ||
| Video: Goa Dairy official rules out Milk price hike 23 Jan: Goa 265 via Navhind Times. Goans can heave a sigh of relief as the milk price rise is not on the cards of the Goa Dairy. Stating that the financial positions of the Goa Dairy was sound enough, the chairman of the dairy Madhav Sahakari ruled out the possibility of milk price hike in the state… 2m. 35s. Full Text. | ||