Kenya: Family behind Radisson Whitesands Resort in Goa
26 Jan: the Nation (Nairobi). One of the biggest defence and security
contractors in Kenya is the Kamani family, with a declared net worth of
Sh1.2 billion ... the family has businesses strung around the world ...
including Radisson Whitesands Resort in Goa ... The Kamanis are setting up
a university in Goa to offer hotel and hospitality industry training ... One
website reports that the family has been linked to a slate of scandals
including Anglo Leasing, the supply of allegedly overpriced Mahindra jeeps
to the Kenya police, and the sale of dysfunctional radar equipment to the
Kenyan air traffic control ... companies closely associated with the Kamani
family made billions of shillings from Government contracts between 1994 and
1998 alone. 2108 words.
http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1&newsid=65956
[Access is by way of free registration]
For the background to this report see: GRAFT CLAIMS ROCK KENYAN CABINET, BBC
23 Jan. at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4638728.stm
For the latest update see
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=%22Anglo+Leasing%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d
Ruth DeSouza: Community to Make Poverty Wages History
25 Jan: Scoop. (New Zealand). Community representatives came together today
to support fast food workers and their SuperSizeMyPay.com campaign ...
"Migrants are twice as likely to be tertiary educated, yet twice as likely
to be unemployed or in minimum wage and low paid jobs," said Ruth DeSouza,
Senior Research Fellow and Centre Co-ordinator for the Asian and Migrant
Health Research Centre at AUT.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0601/S00070.htm
Ruth DeSouza was born in Tabora, Tanzania and is the daughter of Edwin and
Ivy DeSouza (ex Dar & Nairobi). Her family migrated to Nairobi in 1967,
where she attended St Georges Primary School and then, in 1975, they moved
to New Zealand. She has lived and worked in New Zealand, Israel, England,
Switzerland and Sweden. Check her website at www.wairua.com/ruth The
Migration and Culture section is particularly worth visiting!
For a photograph of Ruth De Souza see http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/
Invest in a restaurant. Lately, everyone's doing it.
25 Jan: LA Times. Adolfo Suaya is an Argentinean impresario who is changing
the landscape of the Los Angeles restaurant scene since 1986. He is planning
on opening Goa, an Indian/Middle Eastern/Moroccan fantasy he plans to create
on Cahuenga Boulevard.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fo-investors25jan25,0,7643647.story?coll=la-home-business
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Recent Items of Particular Interest on Goanet. By Cornel DaCosta
"The mando is not of recent creation, but it is not very ancient either."
Find out if it is indeed "a unique creation of the Goan musical genius" in
an interesting piece titled The Great Goan Mando Over The Years. Note too
that the 39th Mando Festival will be held on 28 January 2006 at the Hotel
Majestic, Porvorim, Goa.
Many Goan Voice (UK) readers, of a certain age, will remember Goa as being
very sparsely populated well before electricity and piped water became a
reality. But overnight we now hear that, it will soon become very congested
as all living space is utilised rapidly. Find out as to exactly what is
generating such a transformation.
Could erotic images of deities in the temple friezes of Goa be easily missed
by residents and visitors to Goa? Controversial evidence about such friezes
presented on Goanet can help one understand this little known aspect of
Goa.
GV (UK) readers visiting Goa probably do visit numbers of bookshops all
over the state. One new book they would encounter is The Parish Churches of
Goa. This 201 page volume is packed with fascinating information and
pictures of facades of innumerable local churches. The book is by Jose
Lourenco with photographs by Pantaleao Fernandes.
Read about Grandmomm's recipes for health and remedies for toothache,
migraine, goitre, high blood pressure and many other ailments on Goanet.
They encapsulate traditional remedies used in Goa before the modern pharmacy
made its appearance. Many of these traditional medications are still widely
used and deemed to be very effective.
Finally, Fatima da Silva in Lusotopic (2000):423-432 provides an excellent
account of Goan migration from pre-Portuguese times to the present. It is
definitely worth reading for several new insights regarding the impetus for
migration to different destinations. However, the particular in-depth focus
of this paper is on the Gulf region.
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Deaths
The correct email address for condolences for CONRAD ANTHONY MONTEIRO (ex
Mombasa/Customs) who died on 24 Jan. in London is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
23 Jan: Tivim, Goa. MARIA CONCESSAO FERNANDES (SABINE). (Ex- Mombasa). Wife
of late Antonio Lawrence Fernandes. Mother of late Dominic/Carmine,
Eulalia/Clement, late Julie, late Maria/late Hilary Dantas.
22 Jan. Montreal, Canada. LESLIE D'SOUZA [ex Karachi]. Beloved husband of
Joanna. Loving father of Gerry /Jessie, Wendell /Mavis, Maryanne
/Christopher and Warren /Sharla. Brother of Bella Miranda.
Visitation: Fri. Jan. 27 pm: 2 - 5; 7-9. Feron's Funeral Homes, 1010
Shevchenko Blvd. LaSalle.
Funeral: Sat. Jan. 28 9.30am. Trinity Church, 7780 Champlain Blvd. [Bishop
Power], LaSalle. [Info. from Felix D'Sa in Montreal]
Full details and to send condolences go to
http://www.legacy.com/can-montreal/Obituaries.asp?Page=Lifestory&PersonId=16475201
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