Edited by Eddie Fernandes editor@goanvoice.org.uk

Religious pledge to end caste discrimination
21 Apr: Cath News. A group working for social justice and peace made a “solemn promise” to fight all forms of caste discriminations to build an egalitarian society. The pledge came at the end of the April 9-11 annual convention of the Forum of Religious for Peace and Justice at Don Bosco Youth Animation Centre in Chennai … 445 words.  click here

Maria Mascarenhas; Funeral Details
MARIA MASCARENHAS. (Ex, Nairobi). Wife of the late Caetano Mascarenhas. Mother of Orlando, Priscilla (Canada) and Nelson. Funeral Service Mon. April 26. Requiem mass at 11:00am at the Church of St. Michael and St. Martin, 94 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EH. Followed by the burial at Borough Cemetery, Powder Mill Lane, Twickenham,

5,000 tourists cancel flight tickets to Goa
22 Apr: Navhind Times. Since last Friday an estimated 5,000 tourists have cancelled their flight tickets to Goa as a result of the volcanic eruptions in the Iceland… 494 words.  click here

Deaths
19 Apr: Bastora, Goa. MARTHA GONSALVES E GOMES (Born 1941). Wife of late Mario Gomes. Mother of Johnson and late Agnelo; Marie (UK) and late Francis Gomes.

Calangute, Goa. SABINO MIRANDA. Husband of late Ana Maria. Father of Nacimento/Analyn (UK), Jennifer, Elvis, Lester. Brother of Anthony/Felcy, Maria Vitoria/Nelson, Bernadine/late Joaosinho, Eliza/Salvador; Funeral date will be announced later.

Football: Kuwait: Peter Colaco’s death condoled
21 Apr: Arab Times. A minute’s silence was observed at the matches played in the NYC Trophy as a mark of respect to Peter Colaco, founder member and ex-footballer of NYC who died on 13th April onboard a Kuwait Airways flight whilst returning from India… Navelim advanced to the semifinals beating CRC Chinchinim 2-1 while strong contenders and tournament favorites GOA Maroons bowed out of the tournament with a tie-breaker defeat… 599 words.  click here

Goa: Clergy-laity rift over educational project
21 Apr: UCAN. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and two senior priests quit the board of the Marian Institute of Health Care Management, a year after the US$3.7 million project was launched, citing its “incompatibility” with Church views … Father Saturnino Dias, who resigned as secretary general said the board refused to amend the rules to project “Church values and ethics in its syllabus.” … 330 words + photo.  click here

Goan drug dealer's assets worth Rs 2 crore frozen
21 Apr. IANS. Goa police has frozen all the assets, including cash, properties and investments, of Sadanand Chimulkar alias Bhui, a notorious drug dealer from Anjuna, a senior police officer said. It is the first time that such action has been taken against a drug peddler… 325 words.  click here

Extend visa to stranded tourists, Goa writes to Home ministry
21 Apr: PTI. Goa's tourism department has written to Union Home ministry to extend visas of few of the tourists even as around 1,500 Europeans are estimated to be stranded in the tourist state… A chartered flight left Goa at 7 pm on Tuesday bound for Scotland … 222 words.  click here

Flight drama as chaos reigns
21 Apr: Lancashire Evening Post (UK). On Thursday, former professional cricketer David Makinson and his wife were on a Qatar Airways flight from Goa that got diverted to Munich … They took a 800km taxi ride to Brussels and then another 200 km taxi trip to Calais … The cost was £1,000…  click here

First Baywatch, Now CHiPs in Goa
21 Apr: Wall Street Journal. By Eric Bellman. Goa took a clue from “Baywatch” to protect swimmers that flock there for sun and fun. This season Goa hired more than 200 lifeguards. Now, the tourist-heavy state is borrowing from “CHiPs” — the cheesy 1970s television show about motorcycle cops in the California Highway Patrol. In response to a number of alleged rapes and murders of foreign tourists, it set up a force of around 50 people with military backgrounds using a fleet of cars and 14 motorcycles… 267 words.  click here

Goa police on lookout for LTTE cadres, sympathisers
21 Apr: IANS. Police are keeping an eye on Sri Lankan Tamils possibly working on fishing trawlers and in the mushrooming hotel industry in coastal Goa after the union home ministry warned of infiltration by surviving cadres of the decimated Tamil Tigers… 259 words.  click here

UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
DOCUMENTARY: Volcanic Ash: Flight of Terror. Five
Wednesday 21st Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Documentary exploring the harrowing story of British Airways Flight 009, which filled with sulphurous smoke after flying into a cloud of volcanic ash. All four of the 747's jet engines failed, sending the aircraft and its 263 passengers plunging towards the Indian Ocean. Click here.

COOKERY: Market Kitchen. Good Food
Thursday 22nd Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Cyrus Todiwala makes Indian spiced fish and chips.

COOKERY: Iron Chef America. Food Network
Thursday 22nd Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Flay v Cardoz. Culinary competition between professional cooks and hard-as-iron chefs! New York chef Floyd Cardoz takes cooking to another level in order to defeat Iron Chef Bobby Flay.

DOCUMENTARY: India's Hospital Train. BBC 2
Friday 23rd Apr. 21:00 to 22:00. The story of a special train that has two state-of-the-art operating theatres with a team of volunteer doctors, surgeons and nurses giving their services for free.

DOCUMENTARY: Gurinder Chadha in Goa. BBC Radio Four (Also online).
Saturday 24th Apr. 10:30 to 11:00. Film director Gurinder is in Goa for the film festival to explore how her films are received there. For millions of Indians, her portrayal of life for British Asians is the most realistic view they've had of their diasporic counterparts in the UK.

FILM: The Ghost and the Darkness. BBC 4
Monday 26th Apr. 22:30 to 00:10. Adventure drama based on the true story of the confrontation between two Europeans and a pair of lions that obstructed the progress of a railway line in East Africa during the 1890s. 1996, 15.

TRAVEL: Planet Food. Travel Channel
Wednesday 28th Apr. 19:00 to 20:00. Goa. Angela May journeys to the Western Coast of India to sample the cuisine and culture of the thriving melting pot that is Goa.

DOCUMENTARY: Love at First Site. BBC Radio Four (Also online)
Wednesday 28th Apr. 11:00 to 11:30. Sarfraz Manzoor explores the world of matrimonial websites aimed at the Asian diaspora around the world and the alternative they present to the traditional arranged marriage.

DOCUMENTARY: African Railway. BBC 4
Wednesday 28th Apr. 21:00 to 22:00. The Tazara railroad was built by the Chinese just after independence to link Zambia's copper belt to the port of Dar es Salaam.

Religious pledge to end caste discrimination
21 Apr: Cath News. A group working for social justice and peace made a “solemn promise” to fight all forms of caste discriminations to build an egalitarian society. The pledge came at the end of the April 9-11 annual convention of the Forum of Religious for Peace and Justice at Don Bosco Youth Animation Centre in Chennai … 445 words.  click here

Maria Mascarenhas; Funeral Details
MARIA MASCARENHAS. (Ex, Nairobi). Wife of the late Caetano Mascarenhas. Mother of Orlando, Priscilla (Canada) and Nelson. Funeral Service Mon. April 26. Requiem mass at 11:00am at the Church of St. Michael and St. Martin, 94 Bath Road, Hounslow, Middlesex, TW3 3EH. Followed by the burial at Borough Cemetery, Powder Mill Lane, Twickenham,

5,000 tourists cancel flight tickets to Goa
22 Apr: Navhind Times. Since last Friday an estimated 5,000 tourists have cancelled their flight tickets to Goa as a result of the volcanic eruptions in the Iceland… 494 words.  click here

Deaths
19 Apr: Bastora, Goa. MARTHA GONSALVES E GOMES (Born 1941). Wife of late Mario Gomes. Mother of Johnson and late Agnelo; Marie (UK) and late Francis Gomes.

Calangute, Goa. SABINO MIRANDA. Husband of late Ana Maria. Father of Nacimento/Analyn (UK), Jennifer, Elvis, Lester. Brother of Anthony/Felcy, Maria Vitoria/Nelson, Bernadine/late Joaosinho, Eliza/Salvador; Funeral date will be announced later.

Football: Kuwait: Peter Colaco’s death condoled
21 Apr: Arab Times. A minute’s silence was observed at the matches played in the NYC Trophy as a mark of respect to Peter Colaco, founder member and ex-footballer of NYC who died on 13th April onboard a Kuwait Airways flight whilst returning from India… Navelim advanced to the semifinals beating CRC Chinchinim 2-1 while strong contenders and tournament favorites GOA Maroons bowed out of the tournament with a tie-breaker defeat… 599 words.  click here

Goa: Clergy-laity rift over educational project
21 Apr: UCAN. Archbishop Filipe Neri Ferrao of Goa and two senior priests quit the board of the Marian Institute of Health Care Management, a year after the US$3.7 million project was launched, citing its “incompatibility” with Church views … Father Saturnino Dias, who resigned as secretary general said the board refused to amend the rules to project “Church values and ethics in its syllabus.” … 330 words + photo.  click here

Goan drug dealer's assets worth Rs 2 crore frozen
21 Apr. IANS. Goa police has frozen all the assets, including cash, properties and investments, of Sadanand Chimulkar alias Bhui, a notorious drug dealer from Anjuna, a senior police officer said. It is the first time that such action has been taken against a drug peddler… 325 words.  click here

Extend visa to stranded tourists, Goa writes to Home ministry
21 Apr: PTI. Goa's tourism department has written to Union Home ministry to extend visas of few of the tourists even as around 1,500 Europeans are estimated to be stranded in the tourist state… A chartered flight left Goa at 7 pm on Tuesday bound for Scotland … 222 words.  click here

Flight drama as chaos reigns
21 Apr: Lancashire Evening Post (UK). On Thursday, former professional cricketer David Makinson and his wife were on a Qatar Airways flight from Goa that got diverted to Munich … They took a 800km taxi ride to Brussels and then another 200 km taxi trip to Calais … The cost was £1,000…  click here

First Baywatch, Now CHiPs in Goa
21 Apr: Wall Street Journal. By Eric Bellman. Goa took a clue from “Baywatch” to protect swimmers that flock there for sun and fun. This season Goa hired more than 200 lifeguards. Now, the tourist-heavy state is borrowing from “CHiPs” — the cheesy 1970s television show about motorcycle cops in the California Highway Patrol. In response to a number of alleged rapes and murders of foreign tourists, it set up a force of around 50 people with military backgrounds using a fleet of cars and 14 motorcycles… 267 words.  click here

Goa police on lookout for LTTE cadres, sympathisers
21 Apr: IANS. Police are keeping an eye on Sri Lankan Tamils possibly working on fishing trawlers and in the mushrooming hotel industry in coastal Goa after the union home ministry warned of infiltration by surviving cadres of the decimated Tamil Tigers… 259 words.  click here

UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes
DOCUMENTARY: Volcanic Ash: Flight of Terror. Five
Wednesday 21st Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Documentary exploring the harrowing story of British Airways Flight 009, which filled with sulphurous smoke after flying into a cloud of volcanic ash. All four of the 747's jet engines failed, sending the aircraft and its 263 passengers plunging towards the Indian Ocean. Click here.

COOKERY: Market Kitchen. Good Food
Thursday 22nd Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Cyrus Todiwala makes Indian spiced fish and chips.

COOKERY: Iron Chef America. Food Network
Thursday 22nd Apr. 22:00 to 23:00. Flay v Cardoz. Culinary competition between professional cooks and hard-as-iron chefs! New York chef Floyd Cardoz takes cooking to another level in order to defeat Iron Chef Bobby Flay.

DOCUMENTARY: India's Hospital Train. BBC 2
Friday 23rd Apr. 21:00 to 22:00. The story of a special train that has two state-of-the-art operating theatres with a team of volunteer doctors, surgeons and nurses giving their services for free.

DOCUMENTARY: Gurinder Chadha in Goa. BBC Radio Four (Also online).
Saturday 24th Apr. 10:30 to 11:00. Film director Gurinder is in Goa for the film festival to explore how her films are received there. For millions of Indians, her portrayal of life for British Asians is the most realistic view they've had of their diasporic counterparts in the UK.

FILM: The Ghost and the Darkness. BBC 4
Monday 26th Apr. 22:30 to 00:10. Adventure drama based on the true story of the confrontation between two Europeans and a pair of lions that obstructed the progress of a railway line in East Africa during the 1890s. 1996, 15.

TRAVEL: Planet Food. Travel Channel
Wednesday 28th Apr. 19:00 to 20:00. Goa. Angela May journeys to the Western Coast of India to sample the cuisine and culture of the thriving melting pot that is Goa.

DOCUMENTARY: Love at First Site. BBC Radio Four (Also online)
Wednesday 28th Apr. 11:00 to 11:30. Sarfraz Manzoor explores the world of matrimonial websites aimed at the Asian diaspora around the world and the alternative they present to the traditional arranged marriage.

DOCUMENTARY: African Railway. BBC 4
Wednesday 28th Apr. 21:00 to 22:00. The Tazara railroad was built by the Chinese just after independence to link Zambia's copper belt to the port of Dar es Salaam.