GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER SAT 19 JUNE, 2010
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| Anjali Mendes: An Indian orchid in Paris | ||
 20 Jun: Times of India. By Wendell Rodricks. Strip away the makeup, the fabulous jewels and the couture clothes and one saw the simple Goan girl from Santa Cruz… In the days of the mini, hers were the first fabulous dark legs that hit couture. Grace Jones and Naomi Campbell came in a decade later… Dinners at her house meant meeting the Rothschilds, French nobility, Indian ambassadors and the beautiful, haute monde of Paris… she made her own curtains, knitted sweaters, said her rosary and did her yoga. Like all divas, she could be tempestuous and difficult… 747 words. | ||
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| Funeral: Roldao Vaz | ||
 17 Jun: St. Cruz, Goa. ROLDAO J. VAZ (Born 1925). Beloved husband of Julia. Doting father of Richard/Lafira; Bebiana (Priya)/late Venit (Ireland), Camila/Alirio (Ireland); Blanche/Eric (New Zealand); Flores/Cherryl (New Zealand) + grandchildren and great grandchild. Funeral on Sunday 20 June at St. Cruz. Condolences to ramvaz@richbuilders-goa.com For full details, select the link below. | ||
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| Video: Model Diandra Soares: Be naughty at 40! | ||
 17 Jun: Rediff. We met model Diandra
Soares at a social do and with Rahul Gandhi's 40th birthday coming up on June
19, here is her message to him… | ||
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| UK: Fenny Fever's Got Talent Contest @ 2010 Goan Festival Fenny Fever hosts a showcase, revealing talent from the community. If you think you have what it takes, and would like to perform at the Festival on 25 July, please contact admin@fennyfever.co.uk or call Stephanie on 07889 833796 to apply by 26 June 2010. (All groups and individuals and ages are welcome). | ||
| Drugs racket: CM declines to comment on Mickky’s charges 20 Jun: Herald. Chief Minister Digambar Kamat has declined to offer any comments on the allegations made by former Tourism Minister, Mickky Pacheco on the drugs racket and the excise scam. He said the matter is subjudice and is pending in the court. 318 words. Full Text. | ||
| Politics Goa Style. By Mário Cabral e Sá 20 Jun: Navhind Times. … Mickky Pacheco dropped out of school and had no job. A tailor, Minino Salvador, employed him for Rs 12.15 a day. His worth has since increased manifolds… Mickky made his way to Bahrain and then onwards to the US. He was now the widower of a rich US widow whose fortune he inherited … he is still supported by hundreds of his followers, the most prominent being Nelly Rodrigues, a one-time protégé of Churchill Alemao… Full Text. | ||
| Pacheco, Lyndon’s anticipatory bail pleas to be heard on Monday 20 Jun: Navhind Times. The bail applications will now come up for hearing on Monday, June 21 at 4.30 p.m. before Mr Justice A S Oka of the High Court… 413 words. Full Text. | ||
| "Israelis are not wanted" 19 Jun: Tagesspiegel.(Germany). After army service, young Israelis flee into the wide world but they are not always welcome… Goa, the legendary Indian beach is where 30,000 escape to each year ... machine translation. Full Text. | ||
| Noose on Mickky tightens 19 Jun: Goan Observer. The police claim to have an airtight case against Mickky Pacheco… Nadia consumed poison on 15 May… Mickky Pacheco was in Nadia’s house on 14 May night the same day Nadia’s husband Winston Barreto met her and “she was very much disturbed.”.. the first post mortem report revealed that there were 14 injuries on Nadia’s body and these were inflicted on the eve of Nadia committing suicide… there was an intimate relationship between Mickky Pacheco and Nadia before and after she married Winston Barreto … 1491 words. Full Text. | ||
| Drug Scams 19 Jun: Goan Observer. The investigations into the drugs scam have definitely taken a back seat with Ravi Naik’s ministry prosecuting Mickky Pacheco… It is alleged that public prosecutors, like Winnie Coutinho, deliberately sabotage narcotic cases for hefty kickbacks from the drug mafia… Roy Naik, the Home Minister’s son is allegedly the patron saint of the drug mafia … When the police filed a charge-sheet against the notorious Israeli drug dealer Dudu, they apparently deliberately misstated the facts and created confusion to ensure his acquittal… Full Text. | ||
| "Israelis are not wanted" 19 Jun: Tagesspiegel. After army service, young Israelis flee into the wide world but they are not always welcome… Goa, the legendary Indian beach is where 30,000 escape to each year ... machine translation. Full Text. | ||
| Death: Anjali Mendes 17 Jun: Aix, France. ANJALI (PHYLLIS) MENDES. Daughter of the late John Cajetan & Flory Mendes. Beloved sister of Zenia; John/Phil; Carol/Simon Albuquerque; Aloysius/Marilyn; Margaret/Patrice Delangre and Aida/Joe Netto. more info... | ||
| Goa’s Chief Minister under fire over Tourism 19 Jun: Herald. The Goa government has came in for a severe criticism from the Travel and Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) as well as the Governor over several tourism issues … the Governor said, “It is not good that the World Tourism Organisation discusses the garbage problem prevailing in Goa in its annual meeting.” … the new visa rules are also spelling a doom for Goan Tourism industry… the CM should take up the issue of appointing Goa one of the States to provide visa on arrival… the CM give an assurance to review the 5 per cent cess on tourism … 630 words. Full Text. | ||
| Goa’s tourism image needs to be rebuilt: Official 19 Jun: IANS. The image of Goa has taken a beating in the tourism circuits following the incidents of crimes against foreign female tourists and only a professional public relations agency can rectify the damage, a senior tourism trade official said Saturday… 410 words. Full Text. | ||