Goan Voice Newsletter: Friday 24 Jan. 2014
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Death: Lena (D'Souza) Chandran
22 Jan: Richmond Hill, Toronto. LENA (nee D'SOUZA) CHANDRAN (ex Amritsar, India). Aged 86. Wife of late Godfrey (Geoff) Chandran. Mother of Clarence and Brinda.
Grandmother of Lauren, Michael McLaughlin, Justin (Jennifer), Liam (Elizabeth) and Keddy Chandran. Great-grandmother of Kyleigh (9), Elina (5) and Elle (2). She was predeceased by her brothers Martin, Peter and Paul D'Souza and is survived by sister Julie and two sisters-in-law Stella and Teresa D'Souza. Mass on Friday, January 24th at 11 a.m. at Our Lady of The Annunciation Roman Catholic Church, 97 King Road. Richmond Hill, ON L4E 1A7. For further details click here
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Dr Patrick San Francesco: Faith is the best medicine
25 Jan: The Goan. Dr Patrick San Francesco is popularly known as Patrick the Healer… Based in Baga, with healing centres are all over the country, one does not have to be physically present before him to experience healing. Even a telephonic call or a text message can help one get instant relief. “One has to surely experience to believe,” elucidates De Souza who runs the Wisdom Book House in Panjim … 878 words. click here
Video: Patrick San Francesco travels the world healing people and initiating projects to empower the underprivileged. For a video clip of him at All Saints Church Forum (USA),
click here
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Portrait of a Lady
25 Jan: Indian Express. Book review by Victor Rangel-Ribeiro. Maria Aurora Couto, having covered her father’s life and world in her exhaustively researched Goa: A Daughter’s Story, has turned her attention to her mother’s greatly troubled and yet successful trajectory in Filomena’s Journeys ... click here
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Toronto: Charmaine Noronha: Luxury cruise and biking? Surprisingly good combo
23 Jan: Associated Press. Charmaine Noronha writes “I fancy myself a backpack-carrying, adventure-seeking traveler, at home in hostels and on hiking trails. But there I was, on a luxury cruise ship, sipping wine with silver-haired foxes, fox-trotting with male escorts in the ballroom, and escorting myself on a tapas-like tour around Europe, sampling cities for a day via ship, bus, foot and bike… Embarking in Dover, England, I was sure I was the only passenger hauling a backpack on board … On the first of my 10-day adventure hitting seven cities in four countries, my cousin and fellow cruiser Olivia DeMello, I, and a few other cyclists biked around Guernsey …” 997 words. click here Charmaine Noronha describes herself on Twitter as - Associated Press journalist, urban ninja, culture enthusiast, wanderluster, sugar-fuelled superhero for hire. click here |
AirAsia India to offer 'dramatically' low fares by March-April
24 Jan: PTI. Hopeful of launching flights in India in the next two to three months, Air Asia chief Tony Fernandes has said the airline will introduce 'dramatically' low fares in the country which would be cheapest in the market and take air travel to the masses… Fernandes said that all preparatory work has been completed by the company for the launch of its flights and it is just waiting to open the sale of tickets… click here
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The Wrong Kind of Foreigner
24 Jan: New York Times. The Africans — Nigerians, Ghanaians, Ugandans — began leaving my neighborhood in New Delhi around December… For years, they had been a part of the swirl of cultures, languages and races that makes up this part of the capital… On Oct. 31, about a month before the departures started, a Nigerian national, rumored to have been in the drug trade, was found dead in Goa… The controversy has reverberated across the country, including in Delhi, 1,200 miles away, where the tolerance of African neighbors has turned into suspicion and even hostility… neighborhood battles here are waged over water and parking spaces, not over ethnicity. Now neighbors had become nervous of neighbors. Once the African communities had been singled out, complaints against them bubbled up like filthy water … 949 words. click here
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Sun, Fun and Liposuction
24 Jan: Goa Streets. It may come as a surprise that not all foreign tourists come to Goa to drink beer, party, and get a suntan. Or, for that matter, do drugs. But what if the drugs we’re talking about are penicillin, aspirin and some post-surgical pain killers? And what if the same folks partying on the beach decide to go in for some liposuction or a root canal while they’re here? Medical tourism in Goa is big and getting much bigger. It’s the reason you see so many elderly foreigners all over Goa staying on for months on end. Any why there are so many dental clinics all over the coastal belt, and so many super-specialty hospitals coming up in Goa… 1246 words + photos. click here
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Tribute to Goans
24 Jan: Herald. Katharina Poggendorf-Kakar is among the many visitors to Goa, who came, saw and was conquered by it! Now calling this place home, ever since she moved here in 2003 with her husband Sudhir Kakar, a small Portuguese- styled house in the calm environs of Benaulim is her place of heaven on earth. The experience has been so enriching that it prompted her to write her first novel ‘Moving to Goa’ as a tribute to Goans living in Goa.“ The tremendous hospitality and friendliness of the Goan people; their openness and allowing others to be, is unparalleled,” vows Katharina… click here
For the Katharina Poggendorf- Kakar website
click here
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Goa witnesses rise in tourists from European countries
24 Jun: Times of India. Though the number of foreign tourists visiting Goa increased in the last three years, those from its conventional markets, particularly European countries dwindled. However, 2013 saw a surge in the number of tourists coming from European countries. Dilip Parulekar, minister for tourism said Goa received 12% more tourists from the key UK market in 2013 - 1.45 lakh tourists from UK visited Goa in 2013 compared to 1.19 lakh in 2012… Overall, international tourist arrivals to Goa went up by 9.27 % from the previous year… click here
24 Jan: Travel Biz Monitor. Tourist arrivals to Goa increase record 12% year-on-year in 2013 … TravelBiz Monitor throws light on Goa Tourism’s statistical data for the previous year …
click here
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Bharat builders move High Court to stop demolition at Canacona
24 Jan: Times of India. Bharat developers and Realtors Pvt Ltd, whose under-construction building at Canacona collapsed killing 31 persons earlier this month, has moved the high court seeking to restrain the government from going ahead with the proposed demolition of two adjacent buildings in the Ruby Residency housing complex… The petitioner Pradip Singh Birring, director of Bharat, claimed that the Goa government, without understanding the nature and reasons for the collapse, issued orders to demolish buildings of which one is occupied. … click here
Video: 22 Jan: IBNLive. Video: Goa building collapse: Many questionable projects still being approved. The incident exposing the rampant illegal construction in the state… CNN-IBN found several questionable projects being given approvals… 1m. 46s.
click here
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UK: Forthcoming Events
Sat. 1 Mar: Wembley. Grace Promoters presents Goan Carnival
Dine & Dance - Red & Black with Live
Band "Jus'leo" And Zie from Goa with their scintillating music, UK Bands,
Carnival Beauty Queen Contest by Philu Martins and mouth-watering Goan food from
Royal Foods Caters - Royly De Silva. Watch out for further details. Contact email:
grace.promoters@yahoo.co.uk Visit
web site: www.gracepromoters.com
Ph. 07448787102 or Mob 00 91 98 22 488 180.
Sun, 2 Mar: Mungul Union (UK) celebrates the Feast
of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Woodside High School Hall (ex-White Hart Lane
School Hall), White Hart Lane, London N22 5QJ. Mass at 12.30pm. Music by "RAINBOW'S
END". For tickets and details, contact Mary Lou Fernandes (020 8360 9329),
Lucas Fernandes (020 8967 7471); Rosy D'Silva (020 8889 0417; Rosalind Rebello
(020 8767 8652), Cos Fernandes (0208 884 3124). For the flyer, click
here.
Sun. 4 May: Swindon. Santa Cruz Goan Association, UK.
Feast of the Holy Cross. Mass at 3:30pm.at Holy
Rood Church, 2 Groundwell Rd, Swindon SN1 2LU. Thereafter, to 11pm. Dine &
Dance at St. Joseph's Catholic
College, Ocotal Way, Swindon, SN3 3LR. Tickets: Adult: £10 (includes
Buffet). Children under 10 free. Contact: Joe - 07886994169; Freddy - 07856070378;
Marcus - 07593254960. For the flyer, click
here.
For Later Events See www.goanvoice.org.uk/events.php
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