Goan Voice Newsletter: Friday 22 May. 2020
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Death: Joseph Rattos. Ex Nairobi, Kenya. Benaulim, Goa
20th May 2020: Leicester U.K. JOSEPH RATTOS Died peacefully aged 73 years after a long illness. Beloved brother to Joanita, Bridget, Julie, Xavier, Henry, Louisa, Elvina, and Priscilla. Joseph attended St Theresa’s boy’s school in Nairobi Kenya, before moving to the U.K. The family would like to thank everyone for their kind thoughts, prayers, and condolences at this difficult time. Messages of condolence to Rattosfamily@gmail.com
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News In Brief
21 May: Republic World. Coronavirus Count In Goa Goes Up By Two. With a couple who arrived in Goa by train testing positive on Thursday, the number of active coronavirus cases in the state went up to 45. click here
20 May: Manorama. The curious case of OCIs. When India closed its external borders in March to foreign nationals, OCIs were denied the privilege of coming back to India. Was it an oversight?
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21 May: Navhind Times. ‘Work from home’ not working for Goa’s IT firms. The option of working from home is not working for local IT firms, as there has been a significant drop in productivity.
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Seafarers Homecoming In Brief
20 May: Times of India. Seamen threaten hunger strike. Fearful of losing their jobs due to the state government pressurising shipping company owners to pay for the 14-day quarantine, the group further threatened to undertake a chain hunger strike … Some shipping companies have already told Goan seafarers that they will not re-employ them as the Goa government is unnecessarily charging quarantine fees… click here
20 May: Times of India. Bus with Sailors meets with protest …
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Editorial: 22 May: Herald. Goans need to drop “not in my backyard” attitude. The repatriation of seafarers has already divided the citizens.
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Catholic News in Brief
21 May: Catholic News Agency. Around the globe, Catholics hope papal Mass online will continue. After the Vatican stopped livestreaming Pope Francis’ daily Masses this week … While some countries in Europe are easing their lockdowns, Catholics in India, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, England, Switzerland, and other countries remain without access to public Mass… click here
21 May: Religious News Service. From his kitchen in a suburb of North Mumbai, 50-year-old Catholic priest Warner D’Souza preaches across a kitchen counter laden with garden-fresh vegetables and finely ground spices for a one-pot meal. The minihomily is a prelude to an episode of his YouTube program, “Food for the Soul,” a series of lockdown lessons about food and spirituality…
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For the Rev. Warner D'Souza video channel,
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Editorial: Keep Goa’s Gates Closed
22 May: Navhind Times. The Centre has decided to restart public transport in a limited way… While it would help thousands of people stuck up in various parts of the country to reach home, fears have been expressed that these people returning home could bring the virus and infect others… Goa has seen a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases over the last week, with 44 new cases having been reported all of which were imported by people who came back to the state from other parts of the country or from abroad, an overwhelming majority of them being Goans. With limited medical and critical care facilities Goa cannot afford a spurt in coronavirus cases… Only persons of Goan origin should be allowed to come to the state from other states or other countries … The state has to keep its gates closed for all others, until the coronavirus has been contained within its boundaries and other parts of the world. 732 words. click here
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Doctor who raised concerns over PPE shortage admitted to mental hospital
21 May: BBC. An Indian doctor who was suspended after raising concerns about a shortage of masks is again in the spotlight after officials committed him to a mental hospital. Dr Sudhakar Rao, an anaesthetist with 20 years of experience, made national headlines over the weekend for the second time in two months. The videos show a confusing chain of events from Saturday. Dr Rao is first seen shirtless, sitting inside his car by the side of the road, and screaming at police. In another video, he is lying on the road with his hands tied behind his back as a constable hits him with a baton… In what is likely to be the last video, officers bundle the doctor into an auto rickshaw in front of bewildered onlookers… On 3 April, Dr Rao, who works at a government hospital, told media that doctors weren't being given adequate protective gowns and masks… 845 words click here
22 May: Metro (UK). Doctor in Indian PPE row bundled off to mental unit ...
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Vogue Warriors: Meet the sisterhood of essential workers at this Goa supermarket
21 May: Vogue. At Goa’s AJ supermarket, an all-female team has been working through the lockdown, even as they fight panic buying during the pandemic … “I’ve never seen our stock disappear so fast,” recalls Pramila Subhash Palyekar (25), who has been working as the cashier at AJ, a women-run supermarket in Goa’s Siolim, for a year now. “We usually close at 8pm, but at that time there were so many people that even after the shutters were down, we had people inside till 9pm,” she adds… Things only got busier when on April 1, supermarkets like AJ reopened… “Only five customers were allowed at one time, and with a time limit of 10 minutes inside the store,” says the store manager, Gayatri Vishal Shirodkar (33)… 1139 words. click here
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Moving musical tribute to Goa’s COVID warriors inspired by serving cop
21 May: Herald. It's a tough job being a guardian of the peace. It can harden you and turn you into a copy of the very men and women one is forced to arrest. To retain one's humanity and be moved by others suffering or by the work done by others is just great. DySP Edwin Colaco has just written and released a song commending the efforts of the medical professionals and the police for their efforts in battling COVID 19. The song Mhoji Maim, Mhojem Goem which was released by the CM Pramod Sawant on Tuesday has already caught the fancy of the people of Goa with over four thousand hits in less than twenty-four hours… click here
Video: Mhoji Maim Mhojem Goem
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