GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 22 February 2004 BIRD FLU OVER THE CARNIVAL FEST: The Bid Flu over the Carnival Fest. And it even 'claimed' its 'first victim in Goa' and left a family weeping for the man in the 'coffin'. The spectacle of chicken and birds did not add to the colour and pageantry of this year's floats parade. "We are free from bird flu", the message on one floats, clarified all doubts. Though the organizers claimed a record number of 88 floats, somebody whispered it was the election year, there were only a few spectacular floats.Goan percussionist, Bondo, draped in the robes of King Momo waved merrily from atop the Bharat Petroleum 'Mak' floats, surrounded by his 'entourage'. (WE-GT)
FLOATS FAIL TO IMPRESS: Panjim may have witnessed a huge turnout at the Carnival parade in the city on Saturday (Feb 21), but the majority of floats seems to have belied the expectation of the public. An estimated 70,000 odd people thronged the roads to watch the revelers in their masks make merry, restrained from joining the merriment by the barricades put up for the occasion. (H) POOR QUALITY OF FLOATS WORRY TOURISM DEPT: The Tourism department seems to be worried by the poor quality floats at the much-hyped Carnival celebrations in Panjim. "I am not fully satisfied with the floats. The quality of floats should have been definitely better," the Director of Tourism, Mr N Suryanarayan, said when quizzed about the Carnival parade on Saturday. (H) GOACOM VIDEO: Check at www.goacom.com Audio-Video News for A VIDEO CLIP of the Panjim Carnival Float Parade. CARNIVAL IN CALANGUTE: Community Carnival celebrations, different from those held in the State, began on February 21 in Calangute with the King Momo, Al-Noor Shamshuddin Lakhnoor, declaring the festivities open and urging the people to have fun, fancy and fiesta over the next four days. On Tuesday, a Carnival Parade-float competition-would be held from 5 pm from Kamat Holiday Homes to Calangute football ground, said the organizing committee member. (NT) CONGRESS, UGDP HOLD TALKS AGAIN: A week after proposed talks ended in a failure, the Congress and the United Goans Democratic Party on Saturday held official negotiations over the question of forging a secular alliance ahead of the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls. (H) UK PATIENT'S BACK HEALED IN 9-HOUR SURGERY: In what could be described as a path-breaking orthopaedic surgical procedure in the State, a team of senior surgeons and anaesthetists successfully conducted a major spinal surgery on Carol Killinary, a 63-year-old UK national, at the Apollo NUSI Hospitals and Research Centre, Cuncolim, recently. An earlier surgery conducted two years ago in the United Kingdom on Carol to solve the same problem, was not of much help. The grueling 9-hour surgery enabled her to turn around on her hospital bed the very next day, something she was unable to do for the major portion of the last two years. Bismark Martins, the CEO of Apollo NUSI, stated that while the surgery performed would cost the UK patient 15,000 pounds almost Rs.12 lakh in Indian currency, the same was carried out at just Rs.2.5 lakh. (WE-GT) INSTALLATION OF NEW ARCHBISHOP ON 21 MARCH: The Archdiocese of Goa and Daman is getting set for a unique three-tier event: the installation of Rev Fr Filipe Neri Ferrao as Archbishop of Goa and Daman, send off to the outgoing Archbishop Patriarch, Rev Fr Raul Gonsalves, and the maiden visit to this archdiocese by the Apostolic Nuncio to India, Rev Pedro Lopez Quintana. The celebration will be held at the Se Cathedral, Old Goa, on 21 March, at 10 am. (WE-GT) ONE KILLED IN MIRAMAR MISHAP: In a fatal accident at Miramar, Panaji, a 35-year-old man, Abhijit Dey, died after a rickshaw dashed his motorcycle causing him serious injuries. (NT) ADJOURNED GRAM SABHA MEETING AFTER 16 MONTHS! The gram sabha of Benaulim panchayat would meet on February 29 after a gap of 16 months. And, take note that this meeting is not a regular meeting, but the one which was adjourned way back in October 2002. (H) LANKAN FAKE PASSPORT: The arrest of the Sri Lankan nationals by Immigration police at the Dabolim airport seems to have opened up a pandora's box, with the accused allegedly having confessed the involvement of locals, including a South Goa politician, in their bid to leave the country with forged passports. Immigration police on Feb 20 intercepted 43-year-old Sandra Duia Amarawathie Silva, and her accomplice, Ravi Thermalingam, who tried to board a Kuwait-bound flight at the Dabolim airport with a fake Sri Lankan passport. (H) "GOYCHEM NOKETR-PADRE ZUZE VAZ": A Konkani musical drama on the life of Blessed Joseph Vaz entitled "Goychem Noketr-Padre Zuze Vaz", written and directed by Fr Robin Rodrigues, was staged at the Sanctuary of Blessed Joseph Vaz, Sancoale, recently. The drama had a perfect Goan setting wherein almost 50 young devotees drawn from all over Goa acted. (H) ALDONA OUTPOST TO BE UPGRADED: The Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Parrikar, assured the House on February 21 that he would upgrade the Aldona police outpost, possible to the PSI level, to provide more teeth to it for countering the criminal activities in the region. (NT) ASHLEY IS GUJ CHIEF: Ashley do Rosario of Herald was elected president of Goa Union of Journalists at the elections held on February 21. He won by a margin of 10 votes, polling 66 votes over his rival Suhasini Prabhugaonkar of Gomantak. The members elected for the 10-member executive committee were Vithaldas Hegde of GT, Ganesh Jawdekar of Navprabha, Kishor Shet Mandrekar of Tarun Bharat, Anand Sambhaji of Gomantak, Joaquim Fernandes of NT, Prakash Shirsagar of Gomantak, Mayuresh Watve of Tarun Bharat, Suresh Vadavadekar of GT, Sudesh Arlekar of Tarun Bharat and Ambaji Kamat of Navprabha. A motion congratulating Pramod Khandeparkar, Sandesh Prabhudesai, Paul Fernandes, Joaquim Fernandes and Leena Pednekar tabled by Suhasini Prabhugaonkar and seconded by Vitahldas Hegde was passed unanimously. (WE-GT) CHURCH ASKED TO MOTIVATE YOUTHS: The Governor, Mr Kidar Nath Sahani, has said that church authorities should motivate the youths for staring self-employment ventures. The Governor told this at the meeting with Archbishop Raul Gonsalves and Archbishop Designate Filipe Nerry Ferrao at Raj Bhavan on February 19. (NT) NEW HOUSING SCHEME: Minister for Revenue, Pandurang Madkaikar, on February 21 informed the House that a new housing plot-allotment scheme for the homeless was being finalised and would be discussed in the next session of the Goa Legislative Assembly. The new scheme is proposed to replace the existing 20-point programme, he said. (H) MEDICAL FACILITIES IN GOA COMPARATIVELY BETTER: Goa is comparatively a better State than others in providing good medical facilities and infrastructure, said the Health Minister, Dr Suresh Amonkar, recently at Bicholim. (NT) HISTORY SEMINAR AT GU: The Department of History, Goa University, and the Directorate of Archives and Archaeology, Govt of Goa, will be jointly organizing a local history seminar and symposium. The theme of the seminar is 'Agriculture and Industry in Goa-From the Ancient to the Modern' and the theme of the symposium is 'Art and Architecture in Goa'. (H) S P O R T S CHURCHILL BROS SNATCH VICTORY: Tollygunge Agragami squandered a two-goal advantage to go down 2-3 to Churchill Brothers in their first match of the second leg of the NFL in Kolkata on February 21. (H) VASCO, HAYWARDS DRAW: Haywards 2000 Sporting Clube came from behind to hold Arlem-sponsored Vasco Sports Club to a 1-1 draw, in the second leg of the 8th National Football League, at Nehru Stadium, Fatorda. (H) CANDOLIM OUTPLAY TROPA: In a dull and listless encounter, Candolim Sports Club scored a 2-0 victory over Tropa Sports and Cultural Club in a GFA Third Division League match at Duler grounds in Mapusa. (H) D E A T H 21 Feb: Vasco: GOVINDRAM M METHA: husband of Nirmalaben, brother/brother-in-law of Vinod/Roberta (USA), father of Asha/Ketan Shah (USA), Vinay/Charu, Deepak/Shruti, grandfather of Amul, Tanay, Aditya, Micky, Manan, Ami, Nicole and Lisa. 21 Feb: Navelim: PHILOMENA JUSTINA GOMES E FURTADO: wife of Joaquim, mother of Shalini/Lucas Borges, Jaslok, Jeoffery, Jayesh, Anita and Guilermina. 19 Feb: Cuncolim: JOHN JOSEPH FERNANDES, husband of Bessy, father of Collina/Ozy, Zamina/Anselm, Nikita, Promila and Reagan. G O A W E A T H E R Temp: 26.9 degC (80.4 degF) at 9.30 am today in Assagao. Max Temp: 32.5 deg C; Min Temp: 21.2 deg C; Humidity: 93% (Official figures for yesterday) Weather: The mornings aren't so cool in Goa these days. Courtesy: H=Herald; NT=The Navhind Times; GT=Gomantak Times JOEL D'SOUZA, Assagao-Goa-India. Website: www.goacom.com Goacom News Clippings at: http://www.goacom.com/news Webzine "GoaNOW": http://www.goacom.com/goanow ########################################################################## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##########################################################################
