Dear Mr Noronha, Thank you very much for your regular e-mail letters. They are very informative and interesting. We get to know alot of news and happenings in Goa and India. Would it be possible for you to forward or e-mail me Eduardo Faleiro's address and telephone number as I would like to write to him. Thanking you once again for this kind favour. With regards Perpetua Fernandes London
>From: Frederick 'FN' Noronha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: GOANET <[email protected]> >CC: [email protected] >Subject: [Goanet-news] Goa's NRI Commissionerate to expand invitee list >fornext convention >Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 15:19:06 +0530 > >[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*} > >Discuss Goa-related issues, post your comments to [email protected] >Keep track of what others are discussing about Goa in cyberspace, >visit http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/ > >[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*}[*]{*} >Goa's NRI Commissionerate to expand invitee list for next convention > >Pamela D'Mello > >Panaji, Sep 8: Goa's newly formed NRI Commissionerate said its next >overseas Goan convention scheduled for early January 2007 would expand >its invitee list significantly, to include representatives from lesser >known diapora communities in Sudan, Ethipia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, >Vietnam, Finland and Colombia. > >Modelling itself on the successful interface that Kerala and Punjab >have built with its regional diaspora, the Goa commissionerate is >attempting to build a database and website to link people of Goan >origin that have migrated in the past 150 years, both within and >outside India. > >Commissioner and former union minister Eduardo Faleiro has asked >non-resident Goans, including from other parts of the country to >register >themselves at its email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >The pro-active commissionerate achieved some success when it went on a >house-search to locate 200 of the 290 families awarded compensation by >the United National Compensation Commission for losses suffered during >the Kuwait crisis. > >All of them now stand to be paid compensation ranging from Rs 2 to Rs >50 lakhs which they would have otherwise forfeited, since the UNCC and >India's ministry of extenal affairs did not possess their addresses, >Mr Faleiro told the media today. > >The commissionerate obtained and published the names of persons in the >local newspapers and following a poor response, had local police >identify and inform the beneficiaries.(ends) > >_______________________________________________ >Goanet-news mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-news-goanet.org _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
