GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 14 June 2003
FOUR KILLED AS MINI-BUS PLUNGES INTO CHICALIM DITCH: In a major road mishap, four persons were killed on the spot and 27 others injured when a mini-bus which was on its way to Ponda from Vasco da Gama skidded off the road and plunged into a road-side ditch at Chicalim slope this evening. Amongst the dead are bus conductor Mr Gurudas Naik (34) of Talaulim, Ponda, Ms Carolina Almeida (27) of Bogmalo, Mr Moses Pereira (40) of Cortalim and a 45-year-old unidentified woman. Seven of the injured persons have been admitted to the Goa Medical College Hospital at Bambolim. The mishap occurred when the driver of the fully packed mini-bus moved it to the left side of the road to make way for a speeding KTC bus. At that time the left side tyres of the mini-bus skidded of the road and thus the vehicle fell into the roadside ditch. (NT)
CUSTOMS OFFICIAL LAUDS GOANS: Praising Goans as responsible citizens, a high ranking member of the Central Board for Customs and Excise said that people in this state had a "high degree of compliance". Speaking to Gomantak Times after the inauguration of the Indian Customs and Excise House at Patto Plaza yesterday, CBCE member Mahendra Prasad was full praise for Goans. The State is also one of the largest contributors to the Ministry of Revenue's coffers with last year's collection amounting to Rs.913 crore, said Prasad. Petroleum products and pharmaceuticals made up a bulk of the amount. (GT)
RAIN DEFICIT: While the monsoons have finally broken over Goa, there is a deficit of 25 cms of rainfall for this time of the year as per the figures recorded at Panjim. From June 1 until this morning (June 13) 77.3 mm of rainfall have been record at Panaji, while the normal for this period should be 227 mm. In addition to this deficit no rainfall was recoded at Panjim upto May 31. Goa used to receive about 10 cms of rainfall in May. (GT)
ST INEZ RESIDENT COMMITS SUICIDE: Ballappa Nagappa Harijan (50), a habitual drunkard, committed suicide by hanging himself in his own house located at Beta Bhatt-St Inez on June 12. (NT)
ONE DIES: One Irineu Rodrigues was heading home on his scooter with his wife Conceicao as pillion rider. After reaching Nuvem, all of a sudden a buffalo ran across the road leaving him with option but to dash against it. His wife hit her head on the road and succumbed to her injuries. (GT)
CAR GUTTED: One Antonio Monteiro suffered a loss of Rs.3.5 lakh when his Indica car and a bike were gutted in a fire while parked in the car porch. (GT)
MILK DRINKERS LOSE ONE CRORE A YEAR: Consumers in Goa may be losing around Rs.10 lakh per month by conservative estimates on purchase of milk supplied by Goa Dairy due to an alleged nexus between distributors and shop establishments and apathy on the part of enforcement agencies. Considering that Goa Dairy supplies 95,000 litres of milk in the State, largely at the crack of dawn, very few consumers can gab the milk packets at Rs.7.25 per packed of half litre between 6.30 and 7.30 am. Consumers in various parts have to pay Rs.8 or more per packet, as shopkeepers overlook the Maximum Retail Price. (GT)
BENAULIM VP MEMBERS THREATEN HUNGER STRIKE: The Benaulim panchayat members has threatened to go on a hunger strike if the Directorate of Panchayats fails to post a regular panchayat secretary by June end. (H)
DGP TAKES POT-BELLIES SERIOUSLY: After taking note of the significant number of "mega-sized midriffs" in the Goa Police, Director General of Police Seva Dass, has ordered all policemen to report for physical training exercise at 6 am everyday, ranks irrespective. (H)
KIDNAPPING CASE: Maina Curtorim police has registered a case of kidnapping against a 19-year-old lad hailing from Karnataka. Police disclosed that they suspect that the boy eloped with a 17-year-old girl since May 28 last. (H)
KIDNAPPING CASE RE-OPENED: The police have re-opened the case of the kidnapping of the five-year-old girl Gudiya, who had disappeared from her parents house in Cuncolim three years ago. The parents of the child, Mohammed Khan and Shazada Begum, had approached the Panjim Bench of the Bombay High Court, claiming that the police were not investigating the case properly. (H)
COWS KILLED IN LIGHTNING: Heavy pre-monsoon lightning claimed its first casualty in Sattari taluka, when four cows died after being struck by lightning at Golavli-Sattari at 1 pm on Wednesday. (H)
"BHANGRALEM GOEM": Around 40 Goan artistes, including singers, dancers and musicians, will come together in a unique Konkani programme "Bhangralem Goem" (Golden Goa), at the Hirabai Zantye Memorial hall on June 15 at 7 pm. (H)
ST ANTHONY'S FEAST: Various religious ceremonies and prayer services marked the feat of St Anthony of Padua, which was celebrated by the Catholic community in the State on Friday. In Siolim, St Anthony is the patron saint of the parish and the church traces its origins to a legend, when Portuguese sailors in their dhow prayed to the saint, saying that if they were saved from the storm, they would construct a church in his honour. (H)
ELECTRIC CREMATORIUM IN MAPUSA: Mr Tushar Tople, member of the Mapusa Gramastha Hindu Sabha, which manages the Dattawaddi crematorium, informs that an electric crematorium at the cost of Rs.15 lakh has been sanctioned through the good offices of Mr Sripad Naik, the North Goa Member of Parliament. (Joaquim Fernandes in NT)
CREMATORIUM OFFERS LIVE NET BROADCAST: A fully-computerised Hindu crematorium has sprung up in Gujarat, boasting of having live Internet broadcasts of funerals through cameras. (AFP report in Herald)
CANAGUINIM DESALINATION PLAN: This is an imaginary story...When the government of Goa exhausted all the options to guarantee reliable water supply after the great Goan drought of 2003 and 2004, two options were explored--owing an iceberg from Antarctic and melt its water in a special plant in Marmagoa harbour and establish desalination plants near the seashore to meet the water demand. The first option is still under consideration. An iceberg exploration team is likely to leave from Goa soon. The second option was discussed with many water supply companies in Israel and in the Gulf region. A techno economic feasibility report was commissioned by hiring the services of an Israeli water company. The Israeli company was initially shocked to notice the heavy contamination of the sea water off the coast of Goa. But then it located a source just off the continental shelf close to Canacona, which could be tapped for the desalination plant..." (Nandkumar Kamat in Zest-NT)
WHY HURRY? "(Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting Ravi Shankar) Prasad is only thinking of the beaches and ambience to attract foreigners to the Goa festival. Why connect films with tourism? Isn't he putting the cart before the horse? What about films? Is he aware of how few Indian films have been accepted in the competition section of the Cannes festival? Not even a handful. What about the film culture in Goa? There are not even two-and-a-half cinemas in Goa. Are we in Goa exposed to European films? All we know is commercial cinema, Bollywood and Hollywood. Do they know that Cannes was started as a counter to Hollywood, now it is sold out to the Americans." (Well-known film critic Ervell E Menezes in an interview with Alister Miranda in GT)
GOAN DOCTOR LEAVES FOR US: Dr Ajai Pednekar from ESI has been selected by University of South Florida to participate in the AIDS intervention and training programme in the United States. Dr Pednekar will stay in the US for 15 days and will deliver a lecture at a symposium on health education. (NT)
D E A T H S
12 June: Mumbai: FELIX MENINO SERRAO, Husband of Filomena, father of Renoskha.
07 June: Nuvem: SEBASTIAO FERNANDES, husband of Bertha, father of Armando (P&O Cruises), Sharon.
13 June: Saligao: NATALINA MARCELINA FERNANDES, wife of Faust, mother of Bernadina and Elizabeth/Ismael.
13 June: Chicalim: MARIA ESTELLA VALES, relict of late Manuel, mother of Miguel/Rosa (Canada), Angela/late Norman, Apollo/Luiza, Espy/Caracio, Savio/Flavia (Canada).
13 June: Chicalim: MANUEL ALBUQUERQUE, husband of Estella, father of Rosario/Piedade, Anna/Johny, Saluzinho/Lucy, Agnelo/Fatima, George/Maria, Zenita/Francis.
13 June: Vasco-New Vaddem: ROSARIO DIOGO CORREIA, husband of Amelia (Kuwait), father of Diago/Luiza, Magdalena/Joseph, Estela/Cririlo, Santan/Belmira, Delissa, Velly, Aston, Dylan & Steven.
G O A W E A T H E R
Temp: 28.3 deg C (82.9 deg F) at 08.00 am in Assagao.
Max Temp: 28.0 deg C, Min Temp: 24.0 deg C; Humidity: 99% (Official figures for yesterday)
Weather: Clouded sky in Goa. The late evening yesterday was wet. Today's morning has been dry.
Courtesy: H=Herald, NT=The Navhind Times, GT= Gomantak Times
JOEL D'SOUZA, Assagao-Goa-India.
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