Re: [Goanet] The Courts Retrieve a Beach - by Norma Alvares

2009-02-21 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Dr. Claude Alvares and Norma Alvares deserve our deep thanks and appreciation for their perseverance. But let us not get carried away and proclaim that this is a victory of the people and that sort of piffle we hear all too often here. Note the following sobering points - (a)

Re: [Goanet] The Courts Retrieve a Beach - by Norma Alvares

2009-02-21 Thread Roland Francis
What a difference to this I remember was when the Heritage Hotel was built in Byculla in the early 1970s. Dorabjees a hotelier in Poona bought a building just in front of the Gloria Church. This was adjacent to the famous Alexandra Terrace where Goan lawyers, professors, an Indian Express editor

[Goanet] The Courts Retrieve a Beach - by Norma Alvares

2009-02-20 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Read this important article in today's Herald. http://oheraldo.in/pagedetails.asp?nid=17535cid=14 The hotel owners, the Goa govt and the Taleigao sarpanch at the time (was it Somnath Zuwarkar?) were all complicit in this scam on the people of Goa. The actors involved deserve to