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[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] G o a n e t - N e w s B y t e s APRIL 8, 2005 DATELINE: GOA ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ||g |||o |||a |||n |||e |||t || Issue compiled by ||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|||__|| Frederick Noronha |/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\|/__\| [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyleft Goanet 2005 Creative Commons http://www.creativecommons.org You may reproduce this ezine in its entirety, with credits retained. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] IN TODAY'S ISSUE: Major re-shuffle in Goa bureaucracy, BJP talk on bye-elections, Margao's truck terminal plan jinxed? Get links to the Knowledge Initiatives Trust, the Vatican, Jazz... and get news about Pomburpa. o BYE-ELECTIONS: BJP TO CONTEST ALL FIVE SEATS. Trying to counter the speculations that the BJP is short of good and winnable candidates, Parrikar said his party had no dearth of candidates. But he said they will announce the names of the candidates soon after it is clear what type of elections the State is going in for. Five constituencies that will go in for bye-elections are Taleigao, Cumbarjua, Velim, Poinguinim and Benaulim. Local legislators resigned their seats following instability in the Goa assembly, that pulled down the BJP.(H) o TRUCK-TERMINUS PLAN IN MARGAO, A DEAD-END? Former urban development minister Digambar Kamat's dream project of a controversial truck-terminus at Margao's northern entry point appears to be grounded for now. With his joining the Congress, the fact is that the project has been long opposed by many a Congress leader. (H) o Major re-shuffle in Goa bureaucracy. Nikhil Kumar, an IAS officer, replaces North Goa collector A B Bhartu, who was recently relieved from services of the state administration. (NT) o Small traders for hike in VAT exemption limit. (NT) o No new multiplex likely for 36th IFFI at Goa. (NT) o Dona Paula stocks up mineral water in its war against NIO sewage 'treatment'. (GT) Water restored to Dona Paula. (H) o KRC faces road-blocks in attempt to come out of red. The Konkan Railway Corporation (which was set up anticipating profits much earlier) now says it expects to break-even only five years from now. Officials also argued that the growth projections may get derailed due to delays to put in place projects such as the Sky Bus.(H) o Konkan Railway Corporation is set to construct the world's highest bridge across the river Chenab in Jammu & Kashmir. (H) o Ambelim village sarpanch, deputy Suraj Fernandes and Rex Anthony D'Cruz voted out of office. (H) o Development evading Pomburpa village, claims sarpanch Gokuldas Halarnkar.(H) o Goa's directorate of agriculture participated, for the first time in the International Food Exhibition 2005, IFF2005, organised in mid-March at Excel, London's exhibition centre in the heart of Docklands. Said a newspaper headline: "Goa's choicest mangoes tickle British palate". --------------------------------------------------------------------- NEWS FROM CYBERSPACE --------------------------------------------------------------------- KNOWLEDGE INITIATIVES IN GOA: Daryl Martyris <dmartyris at hotmail.com> who has been working on the Goa Computers in Schools Project, and now the Knowledge Initiatives Trust (KIT) had his attention drawn to the possibility of the Verna Industrial Association offering remedial teachers to schools in the belt. Says he: "I would really appreciate it if someone could keep me informed about this part of the project. I might also be able to help with providing materials that are used here for remedial teaching. Also, Pratham, an NGO in Mumbai, has used remedial teaching to great effect for primary schools kids." The VIA initiative is still in a preliminary stage. If interested in supporting education initiatives in Goa, contact Daryl or check out http://mail.knowledgeinitiatives.org/mailman/listinfo/kitrust_knowledgeinitiatives.org FROM THE VATICAN: Fontainhas (Pangim)-based Fernando do Rego <fernandodorego at yahoo.com> reports on the Portuguese-Goa mailing list http://www.onelist.com/community/goa-portuguese that a visit to the http://www.vatican.va site threw up the "full ritual of the Eucharist service for the funeral Mass of the Pope to take place at 0800 GMT". ALL THAT JAZZ! Jazzgoa <jazzgoa at yahoo.com> alerted musicians about their event featuring Yvonne Gonsalves (vocals), Xavier Peres (keyboards), Colin D'Cruz (bass), Lester Godinho (drums) on April 18, from 9 pm onwards. Call Chris on 9422437682 for more information. Jazz Junction was formed in Goa in April 2004 by bass-player Colin D'Cruz. The band made it's debut at the fashion meets jazz show L'affaire Xtraordinaire in Panjim. Soon after that the band made waves at the 'Down to Earth' jazz festival in Campal and has since performed at most of the major live music events happening around the country. The band was formed with a unique 'floating singers/soloists' concept where a different singer and soloist is featured at every performance. Audiences get to hear the band in a different avatar each time the band is in concert. So far the band has featured some accomplished local as well as international jazz artistes like vocalists Helen Jones (UK), Najla Shami (Spain), Scot Andersen (Canada), Vivienne Pocha, Yvonne Gonsalves, Samantha Edwards, Sharon Rodrigues, Suzanne D'Mello, Ursula Fernandes, saxophonist Neelamjit Singh Dhillon (Canada), Jayson Beaster Jones (USA), Maarten Gamwijcan (Germany), Joe Pereira, Saby Dias, Shyam Raj, trombonist Dennis Rollins (UK) and Blasco Monsorate, trumpet players Martin Dahanukar (switzerland) Frank Dubier and Bosco Monsorate. The band has also been invited to perform at the Malaysian jazz festival that takes place in December this year for which the band will feature a couple of Indian classical musicians as singer/soloist. FOR MORE MUSIC-RELATED LINKS, sign up at this free mailing-list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/goamusician/ LINKS TO MALACCA: Viveca <radioheart1 at yahoo.com> in distant Malaysia tells GNB about this site about Malacca, a region in the far-east that had historic links with its 'colonial cousin' Goa in past centuries: http://picturesofmalaysia.com/malacca/ WEDDING BELLS, IN MUMBAI: Congrats to Sherwin Crasto, Mumbai-based veteran news photographer (earlier with a number of newspapers, then Associated Press, and now with his own photo-agency), who recently married Tricia at St Michael's Mahim. Their reception was held at St Joseph's School Grounds, Hill Road Bandra. Sherwin was this afternoon photographing Old Goa, and is otherwise based at Sea Shells, 13 Darabsha Lane, Off Nepean Sea Road, Mumbai 36 <sherwincrasto at gmail.com> 'POMBURPA NEEDED ONLY FOR POLLS, GARBAGE SITE': Melvyn Misquita and Anil Shankwalkar report that Pomburpa village panchayat has an annual income of just Rs 40,000 -- barely enough to buy a motorcycle, forget any envisaging any lofty project in the village. Their report adds: "And its geographic location offers little assistance to augment its cash-strapped coffers. Pomburpa does not own any part of the lucrative land at Porvorim plateau, half of which is claimed by its neighbours, Penha-da-Franca, Salvador-do-Mundo and Socorro." See http://www.melvyn.misquita.in/works/2005/050408.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA INITIATIVES --------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM SALIGAO, CALLING ALL CHILDREN: April 13, 2005 will see a special edition of the 'Reading Hour' for children (aged 3 to 10 years and beyond) at the Saligao Institute. It will be called: Once There Was A Beautiful Spring. Netters may be aware that the village is battling a concrete construction coming up 40 metres away from its famed natural spring at Salmona, Saligao. You're welcome at 5 pm, April 13, Saligao Institute, Arrarim, Saligao. Pass the word around, please! Journalist-turned-wildlife enthusiast now based abroad, Harvey D'Souza <tarzan_1968ing at yahoo.com>, says he has been "following the Salmona mails keenly" and points out that an interview on his work in the area is located at http://www.southernbirdwing.com/goa_wildlife/saligao_springs.htm Says Harvey: "I also have a pretty comprehensive bird list of the birds sighted there and can dig it our for you if you require it...." Please do! Thanks to Parag Rangnekar <paragrangnekar at yahoo.com> for sending this appeal to a whole lot of young nature enthusiasts in Goa. EMAIL ADDRESS FOR EVERY GOAN: Rene Barreto <r_barreto at btconnect.com> takes his Goanet-supported initiative ahead by networking with St Xavier's College in Mapusa, Goa. Principal Newman Fernandes evinced interest in the ambitious goal. Said Barreto: "We look forward to working with St. Xavier's College on this and many other community-led projects in the near future. We have been told that St. Xavier's has about 26 other community projects for this summer." The London-based senior citizen called on Xavier's to encourage its staff and students to have their own email address, and sought their help to "promote the idea to Goans in the furthermost villages of Goa". Barreto urged Goan academics and students in universities outside Goa to support Xavier's build a college-link with their own institutions, as requested by Principal Newman: xavierscollege at sancharnet.in Rene Barreto also organises World Goa Day in August each year, which he describes as "a day set aside by Goans to express their solidarity with Goa and Goans everywhere". RUTH DE SOUZA, AT WORK IN NEW ZEALAND: If you're interested in Asian migrant or refugee health, Ruth DeSouza wants to hear from you. Ruth who is the new Co-ordinator/Senior Research Fellow for the Centre for Asian and Migrant Health (part of the National Institute for Public Health and Mental Health Research) hopes to develop research partnerships and collaboration across the University. http://www.aut.ac.nz/staff/insideaut/index.shtml#11 Says Ruth: "I worked at National Women's and saw a lot of Asian migrant/refugee women. Then I went to Mental Health Services and saw a lot of white, middle class women. I wondered where the poor women, the solo mums, the Maori women and the Indian and refugee women were. They weren't making use of the services at all." Ruth found that many migrant women with post natal depression tended to call what they were feeling loneliness and wouldn't seek out mental health services. She also found that such women lost the birth support and rituals they had in their country of origin. "For example Asian women have 40 days of pampering after giving birth where they can just look after the baby and the rest of the community takes care of everything else. Here they have to try to recreate such rituals or create new ones." --------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTE... UNQUOTE --------------------------------------------------------------------- Who says Parrikar's tenure was corruption-free? Never in the history of Goa have so many crores of rupees been siphoned off from the public exchequer on mega projects such as development of the Mala lake, IFFI, Corjuem (Aldona) bridge, the EDC one-time settlement to kin and friends of the BJP etc. -- Floriano Lobo, Goa Su-raj. Dear Mr Manoharbab Parrikar, where are you? Panaji is looking like an abandoned bride after the honeymoon -- violated, disappointed, betrayed, confused, terrified about her future and terribly let down. Never mind if you are not the CM anymore, never mind if you gave up the GSIDC chairmanship. You cannot abandon your dream child, the promenade from Patto to Dona Paula, that was totally sought to be changed, dug-up, half done and abandoned as was done immediately after the grand IFFI was over, while you were in power. -- Anand V Madgaokar. --------------------------------------------------------------------- DEATHS & OBITUARIES --------------------------------------------------------------------- WOMEN, YOUTH DIE IN MISHAPS: In two separate incidents, two persons were killed in a road accident in Goa on Thursday. In yet another tragic accident, a 65-year-old woman was killed by a speeding vehicle on the highway opposite the Goa Medical College, Bambolim early on Thursday. Lata Pednekar, the victim from Goa Velha, had finished visiting an ailing relative. (GT) GOA VELHA-UDDY: Micaela Fernandes. b 1930. Wife of late Francisco, mother/in-law of Julie/Domnick, Martha/Anthony, Marie/Benny, Edu/Sebastiao and Milagres/Germina. Funeral April 8, 4 pm to St Andrew's at Goa Velha. SALVADOR DO MUNDO/UMBRA: Arthur Fernandez. Husband of late Gloria, son of late Anthony and Gabriella, brother/in-law of Mira/ late K S Mathew (Joy), Alcina, Alzira/Claudio da Costa, brother-in law of Florrie, late Esme/late Philip, Jane/late Claude, Pat/ Teresa expired in Mumbain on April 6. Funeral on April 8 at 3.30 pm from his residence at Agdez House, Umbra at 3.30 pm for Church of Saviour of the World. SERAULIM: Joao Mariano Vales, ex Sarpanch. B 1924. Husband of Circacia, father/in-law of Bosco/Antonetta, Savio (Dubai)/Ema, Edgar (Eddie)/ Flora (UK), grand-dad of Clive, Dylon, Errol, Eagan, Gavin, Gareth, brother of late Cassiana, late Jose Sebastiao, late Lodovina, late Dumithilda, late Fr Custodio, Santana and Catarina. Funeral on April 8 at 3.30 pm to OL of Pilar Church, Seraulim. TALEIGAO-SANTISSIMO VADDO: Caetano Manuel Francisco Viegas. Ex-employee of PWD Works Divn IV. Husband of Felicidade Viegas, father of Clare, Marliza and Lionel. Son of Maria Viegas and late Rafael Viegas, brother/in-law of Assis/Remy, Carlos/Cristiana, Serena/Braz and Aleluia/Annie. Funeral April 8 at 4 pm for St Michael's Church, Taleigao. VELSAO-FALWADDO: Maria Ida Nunes. Relict of Inacio, mother/in-law of Winston, Wylia, Warren/Sevigne, grandmum of Rachel and Tyrel, sister of Lira Pinto. Funeral April 8, 4 pm to OL of Assumption Church, Velsao. --------------------------------------------------------------------- GOA SPORTS --------------------------------------------------------------------- SALGAOCAR 1 VASCO 0: Brazilian striker Fabio Dos Passos' majestic solo strike helped Salgaocar win in the battle between the two teams from the port city of Vasco. Even a late controversial penalty, eventually wasted by Brazilian Fabio Soares, could not rescue a point for the Vasco Sports Club. (H) Calangute Association got the better of Agassiam YC 2-1 in the Saudi Cup-05 Tropa Soccer, at St Anthony's church grounds, Siolim, to storm into the semis. (H) Football Club Siolim had to wait till the tie-breaker before knocking out Friends XI Vaddem 3-2 in the Aldona panchayat cup played at Quitla grounds, Aldona. (H) Uday Naik's late equalizer propelled Saligao Sporting to a 7-5 win via the tie-breaker, over Youth Club of Manora, to enter the finals of the Xetrapal Soccer 2005, played at Xetrapal grounds, Oxel on Thursday. (H) Young Strikers Benaulim moved into the quarters of the Anant Deep Soccer organised by United Club Nerul, scoring a solitary goal win over Arpora Sporting, at Dr Gustavo Monteiro Stadium, Candolim.(H) St Rock's Youth Club, Majorda moved into the quarters of the Kingfisher soccer, defeating Candolim Sports Club 5-0 at Saligao Sporting grounds. Merces villagers will organise their first all-Goa veterans football tournament starting from April 11, at Alua grounds. --------------------------------------------------------------------- CULINARY CORNER: Summer special, binn'da (kokum) recipes --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ripe binn'da or kokum (Garcinia indica) fruits are red to dark purple in colour, with an agreeable flavour and sweet acid taste. Raw green fruits and ripe ones are used for making different products. LONAVALA KOKUM: Green, unripe fruit are harvested by beating with a bamboo stick. Collected fruits are simply cut into halves, keeping the seeds intact and are sun dried. In Gujarati kitchens, this is used in culinary preparations. KOKUM SYRUP: Fresh rind is an antidote against bilious affections and the syrup is prepared by using rind pieces and sugar (in a ratio of 1:2). Kokum syrup, on dilution, is a cooling and refreshing natural drink. AMSOOL (CONDIMENT): Ripe fruits are cut into two pieces. The seed and pulp is removed. Juice is extracted from the pulp and salt is added. The rind is soaked in juice and sun-dried. This dip-dry process is repeated for seven to eight days. Amsool is used as a condiment in culinary preparations in Goa and Maharashtra. KOKUM AGAL: It is a brined concentrate of binn'da or kukum juice. The juice obtained from fruit pulp is stored by adding salt and used as a condiment in fish curry. 'Solkadi' is a special food item in Goa and Sindhudurg, and is made by using kokum agal with coconut milk, spiced with green chilli and green coriander pieces. [Courtesy: Karnik, Bhagwat, Raorane and Nadkarni, Dept of Horticulture, Dr Balasaheb Sawant Konkan Krishi Vidyapeeth, Dapoli] --------------------------------------------------------------------- WEATHER, ETC IN GOA --------------------------------------------------------------------- Max 34.1 deg C. Min 26.5 deg C. Humidity 81% at 8.30 am and 70% at 5.30 pm. Forecast light rain or thunder showers. Reports from residents said it rained in Valpoi (north-eastern Goa) on Thursday. Sunrise 6.28 am on April 8. Sunset 6.52 pm. Omas ends at 2.02 am night. April 9, Hindu new year, Sake 1927 begins. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We need your help to promote Goanet, a volunteer-driven network: --------------------------------------------------------------------- ... . ... .... .. ... .... .||. 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