GOANVOICE DAILY NEWSLETTER WED 12 MAY, 2010
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Lucky Mangarda: I have a new penfriend :)
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12 May: Lucky Mangarda writes: Look what I got in my inbox today! Goa Police have finally contact me :)
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Toronto: Kaitlynn and Celia get GOA awards
12 May: South Asian Observer (Canada). The Goan Overseas Association (GOA) gave away the Oscar Fonseca award to Kaitlynn Almeida and the Victor Abreu award to Celia Clutton at the 40th anniversary celebrations held on May 1. The awards are presented to those students who do well their academic studies and extra-curricular activities… 327 words.
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Canada: Ian D'Sa talks touring
11 May: Mississauga com. Billy Talent guitarist Ian D'Sa has not forgotten his roots … he comes to Metalworks Institute, Mississauga on Thursday May 13 to talk about touring. The free, two-hour event starts at 7:30 p.m… 287 words.
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Audio: BBC: Traveller's Tree: Judy Cardozo
10 May: BBC Radio 4. In Goa, foodie film director Gurinder Chadha takes a cookery course to learn how to make a classic fish curry from Judy Cardozo (photo) … also featured is Venite restaurant … Antonio Carluccio reveals to having cooked in Goa … …Segment from 6m. 10s to 12m. 10s. To listen to the programme, click here or click here.
Maria D'Silva: Belly Dancer at Leicester
11-13 June. Maria D'Silva is an organiser of the International Belly Dance Mania Gala in Leicester, UK. Joe Fernandes will be providing the music. Details at http://www.bellydancemania.com/
Maria was born in Mombasa and also lived in Nairobi where she attended Catholic Parochial School. Her parents are Sebastian and late Philomena D'Silva. For the Maria D'Silva website with video clips, photos and more see http://www.bellydanceruk.com/
Joe is ex Eastleigh, Nairobi, the son of Caridade and Sylvia (Baby) Fernandes.
News Summary
London's classical music stars hit Mumbai
12 May: The Times. Despite India’s colonial past, India has never taken to classical western music … there is more than enough of their own music to keep Indians occupied… Sunil Mendes, a teacher at the school and an opinionated amateur violinist says he was asked to join the Bombay Chamber Orchestra but the pay was so small … Most of the classical audience in India is made up of Parsis and Goans such as Mendes… 948 words. Full Text.
Bahrain: 12 sign up for May Queen beauty contest
12May: Gulf News (Bahrain). Twelve young women have so far registered for a beauty pageant to be held by the Young Goans Club later this month. The club's annual May Queen beauty pageant will take place from 8pm at the Delmon International Hotel's poolside, Manama, on May 27… Mr Swar, a veteran of beauty pageants, is being especially flown in from Goa to host the event. 380 words. Full Text.
Scandal in Goa as Israeli drug dealer boasts of police corruption on YouTube
12 May: The Times (UK). The story has all the elements of an airport potboiler: a tropical beach setting; a heavily tattooed Israeli drugs dealer; a handful of corrupt detectives; and a Swedish model-cum-Bollywood dancer who goes by the name of “Lucky”…. the woman in question — Lucky Nova Mangarda Amori, a pneumatic Swedish blonde … 648 words. Full Text.
Goa: Hospital ties patients to beds
13 May: Herald. Incomplete civic planning has come to the fore along with inadequate facilities at Canacona Community Health Centre, which reportedly compels its staff to tie patients to the beds, sometimes causing torture and even deaths… 405 words. Full Text.
Salvation through the rosary
13 May: Navhind Times, The Catholic community the world over celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Fatima today…The devotion started when Our Blessed Mother appeared six times from May 13 to October 13 in the year 1917 to three shepherd children at Fatima in Portugal ... 451 words. Full Text.
Sixth Goa policeman arrested for drugs mafia links
13 May: IANS. Sub Inspector Punaji Gawas was arrested late Wednesday for selling seized drugs stored for safekeeping in the police storehouse back to the drugs mafia … Police had earlier maintained that white ants had devoured the drugs. 123 words. Full Text.
Goa court postpones verdict in Russian girl rape case
12 May: PTI. A Goa court today postponed its verdict in the Russian minor girl rape case after the accused claimed that he is a juvenile… 160 words. Full Text.
Death: Mac Fernandes
11 May: Toronto. ANTHONY (MAC) GABRIEL FERNANDES (Aged 89). He will be fondly remembered by his wife Theresa; children Dorothy (Christopher), Eugene (Mario), Cornell (Susan), Albert (Joanette), Jerald, Veronica (Victor) and Anita (Marcus); eighteen grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Visitation on May 13, from 5-9 p.m. at Ogden Funeral Home, Scarborough, Ontario. Funeral on Friday, May 14, at 11 a.m. at St. Barnabas Church, 10 Washburn Way, Scarborough, Ontario . Interment to follow at Christ the King Cemetery. Photo.Full Text.
Key witness in Goa drug nexus contacted after two months
12 May: IANS. The Goa police has contacted a crucial witness nearly two months after the probe was initiated … Lucky Farmhouse, a 33-year-old Swedish model was contacted only Tuesday (May 11) and that too after the whistleblower complained to the media that the Goa police were ‘not trying to find me at all’… 380 words. Full Text.
Ukrainian in biggest credit card con job was in Goa
12 May: Deccan Herald. Sergey V Storchak a Ukrainian national, wanted by the US in connection with a case of global computer hacking and credit card fraud ring, was detained in Delhi airport soon after his arrival from Goa … The FBI had informed India that he was likely to reach Delhi from Goa … He is wanted in the USA for fraud and identity theft of more than 40 million credit and debit card numbers… 444 words. Full Text.
UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
DOCUMENTARY: Big Fat Indian Weddings. Wedding TV Asia (267)
Thursday 13th May. 19:00 to 19:30. Meet Suneet and Amrita from San Francisco as they live the dream of a destination wedding in the city of sun, sand and sea... Goa.

NATURE: Bite Me. Nat Geo Wild
Thursday 13th May. 21:00 to 22:00. India. Mike heads to one of the world's largest and most diverse countries, where he bravely takes a dip in the Ganges, endures leech therapy and meets some bloodthirsty monkeys.

ARTS: Afternoon Play. BBC Radio Four
Friday 14th May. 14:15 to 15:00. Science fiction mystery by Martin Jameson. A week after the election, psychiatrist Liz De Souza is called to examine a patient at a secure government research facility. Disorientated and confused, he is convinced that Tony Blair is still prime minister.

NATURE: Think Green. Travel Channel
Sunday 16th May. 19:00 to 20:00. India. With plans for water purification and waste water treatment, India is looking ahead to safeguard its precious water supply.

FILM: Barsaat Ki Raat. Channel 4
Monday 17th May. 00:10 to 03:20. Aman, a young struggling Muslim poet is in search of inspiration. One rainy night he meets by chance Shabnam a gorgeous woman with whom he falls instantly in love. Black and White, Subtitles, 1960, U.

DOCUMENTARY: Tiger vs Dragon. BBC Radio Four
Monday 17th May. 20:00 to 20:30. Two-part series in which Mukul Devichand explores the rising Asian giants, China and India.

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: A History of the World in 100 Objects. BBC Radio Four Tuesday 18th May. 09:45 to 10:00. 32: Pillar of Asoka. Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor explores how the Indian ruler Asoka turned his back on violence and plunder to promote the ethical codes of Buddhism.

FILM: Mogambo. Channel 4
Tuesday 18th May. 12:45 to 14:55. John Ford's adventure film stars Clark Gable as a big game hunter in Kenya. Also starring Ava Gardner and Grace Kelly. 1953. PG.

COOKERY: Daily Cooks Challenge. ITV1 London
Tuesday 18th May. 16:00 to 17:00. Brian Turner and Jun Tanaka hope to win over actress Laila Rouass.