Goan Voice Newsletter: Saturday 15 Jan. 2022
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Death: Rosarinho Desouza, London, ex Nairobi & Goa
10 Jan. 2022: London. ROSARINHO MANUEL BASILIO DESOUZA, ex Nairobi.& Goa Born 14.06.1959. Son of the late Joao Menino Desouza and late Maria Magdalena Desouza. Son-in-law of the late Felix Fernandes and late Aurita Fernandes. Beloved husband of Maria Eugenia Desouza (Gemma), father of Chantalle and Charlton Desouza. Brother of Francis Desouza and uncle to Charlene and Ethan Desouza (London). Brother-in-law of Silvia Fernandes (London), Doris Rebello, Olav Fernandes ((Abu Dhabi) , Euclid Fernandes, Sushila Dias & Late Sanjay Fernandes (Goa). Died peacefully on 10th January 2022 in hospital after a brief illness and surrounded by his beloved ones. The funeral date will be announced later. For condolences messages kindly email thedesouzas89@gmail.com
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Death: Maria Aurora Couto (1935-January 14, 2022). Aldona, Goa
14 Jan: The Wire. By Raghu Karnad. Remembering Maria Aurora Couto, an Exemplary Trustee of Goan Heritage. Maria was the grande dame of Goan arts and letters. Her work as a memoirist, translator, and educator was more than testament to this… She died before from a pneumonia infection… She married Alban Couto. They had three children, Veena, Vinay and Vivek… They lived for a time in London where Alban had a position at the Commonwealth Secretariat and moved back to Goa in 2000 … 1608 words. For further details click here
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27 April, 2021: Video: CCR TV: Literally Goa – Maria Aurora Couto interviewed by Fredrick Noronha. 54m.58s.
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“Donkey Babush” António Costa, seeks re-election as Prime Minister of Portugal
13 Jan: SIC Notícias (Portugal). Aged 60, a socialist since he was 12, António Costa seeks to be re-elected prime minister, a position he has held since 2015. “Babush” to the family – which means boy in Konkani dialect, from Goa – António Costa has been Prime Minister since 2015 and seeks to be re-elected on 30 January 2022… “A race between a donkey and a Ferrari” was used to describe his entry into politics in 1993 … António Costa was born in Lisbon on July 17, 1961. Son of publicist, writer and Communist Party activist Orlando da Costa and Maria Antónia Palla a journalist … he is a descendant of families converted to Catholicism from the highest caste in India… 1616 words. click here
14 Jan: Jornal i (Portugal). Skin color, “never limited me” he said in 2014: “I, personally, never felt it. I may have heard them call me 'monkey' once or twice, but it's episodic”… 1837 words.
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Video: 18 Jan. 2017. Herald TV. Portugal PM visits his ancestral house in Goa … 3m. 36s.
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Video: Goa could hit its Covid peak around 20th January with about 10-15,000 cases daily, Dr Shekar Salkar
13 Jan: Goa 365tv. … Dr Salkar also said that even though hospitalization rates are well under control, we should be cautious… Dr Salkar has warned that hospitals may get put under pressure as doctors and nurses are testing positive for the virus. In the last couple of days around 100 doctors and workers in government hospitals are down with Covid… South Goa hospital, Hospicio is now being designated as a Covid hospital … 7m. 31s. click here
14 Jan: Herald: By Ajit John: Goans cope with cold and Covid The chill is in the air, resulting in everyone either sniffing or coughing. Then there is the variant which is still infecting people in large numbers. How do people of Goa handle these two headaches… 910 words.
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14 Jan: Herald: 28 GMC doctors test COVID Positive. The President of Goa Association of Resident Doctors (GARD) Dr Pratik Sawant said that there are around 28 doctors at Goa Medical College (GMC) who have tested COVID positive…
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Clear the way for Ola and Uber in Goa: TTAG
14 Jan: The Navhind Times: The Travel & Tourism Association of Goa (TTAG) on Thursday reiterated its demand to bring in taxi aggregators Ola and Uber to the state, maintaining that digital meters installed so far in taxis have yet to start functioning … TTAG president Nilesh Shah said that tourists who visited Goa in the months of November and December 2021 were fleeced by the taximen… click here
14 Jan: Herald: The fitment of digital taxi meters picked up pace in the last five months as 8,792 tourist cabs were fitted with the meters from September 2021 till January 10, 2022…
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13 Jan: Times of India. With around 3000 taxis yet to fit digital meters, the High Court has granted further time for compliance of its order …
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Indian Bishop Is Acquitted on Charges of Raping a Nun
14 Jun: New York Times. A Catholic bishop who was accused of repeatedly raping a nun in southern India over a two-year period was acquitted on Friday, bringing an end for now to what appeared to be the country’s first case of its kind. The bishop, Franco Mulakkal, who had been on trial since 2020, had consistently said he was innocent. “Praise the Lord,” he said after the verdict. The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove their case. Investigating officers in Kerala said the ruling would be appealed to a higher court. The case, believed to be the first in India in which a bishop was charged with raping a nun, highlighted deep divisions within the Catholic Church in the country… 466 words… click here
14 Jan: BBC. Franco Mulakkal: Kerala court clears bishop in nun's rape
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Video: 14 Jan: NDTV. Bishop Franco Mulakkal, Accused Of Nun's Rape In Kerala, Acquitted … 5m. 40s.
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When Portuguese Soldiers Surrounded the Grave of ‘The Greatest of all Goans’
13 Jan: Better India. A pioneer of the anti-colonial struggle against the Portuguese in Goa, Luis de Menezes Braganza sacrificed his great wealth for the cause… many consider him as Goa’s fiercest proponent of independence from the Portuguese. He was born on 15 January 1878 in Chandor … He was one of the few among Goa’s elites who resented colonial rule and wanted to bring drastic changes to conservative Goan Catholic and Hindu society… Barely 22, Luis got together with Goan writer Professor Messias Gomes to establish Goa’s first Portuguese language daily called O Heraldo in 1900 … Following his death, the colonial administration stationed Portuguese troops around his grave to prevent any attempt by the Goans to pay their final respects and stir up nationalistic protests… 1405 words click here
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Sardinha: Bullfights do not amount to animal cruelty
13 Jan: Times of India: Pitching for lifting the ban on dhirios (bullfights), South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha argued that the animal sport didn’t amount to cruelty towards animals. He said…”If humans can fight, why can’t animals be made to fight to establish the champions among them? If dhirio is cruelty towards animals, then ban ploughing of fields by oxen too. That’s also cruelty”… Dhirio has been banned in the state as per Supreme Court judgement 1998…Promising to legalise dhirio, Sardinha had moved a private member’s bill in the Parliament in that regard during his earlier term in office, but it could not be passed … 190 Words. click here
12 Oct, 2021: The Free Press Journal… Former Chief Minister Churchill Alemao calls for legalising dhirio on lines of Tamil Nadu’s jallikattu…
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Video: 23 Dec: Susegad Goenkar. Dhirio Sport … 2m. 28s.
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A new disaster has come to Goa: tourists began to cut their feet on the beaches
14 Jan: Tourprom (Russia). Along with the return of vacationers to the beaches of Goa, a new disaster came: tourists began to cut their feet on the beaches. The reason is a huge amount of rubbish, according to Indian media. The incredible amount of glass and plastic bottles, bags and other debris left over from drunken New Year's parties not only deprives the resort's beaches of the latest aesthetics - it becomes seriously dangerous. “Palolem leads the way with a 3103% increase in glass waste. In Calangute, the garbage has increased by 559%, "- such a monstrous estimate was presented by researchers from the University of Goa. They surveyed eight beaches in total. Everywhere there is a clear increase in litter, in some cases - simply monstrous… click here
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