UK: Snippets all at sea Goan Community UK abandoned by the lifeboat GWS Without Prejudice Please Share amongst Friends and spectators of Goan Management during Holy Week. The views expressed are personal and should not be constituted as any Authority. It is now 16 years since the millennium when Sir Cliff Richards sang The Lords Prayer. As a reminder, click : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td_4Jy8TKC4 Palm Sunday is a joyful occasion not as some would say the greasing of ones palms. As we participate in Holy Week we are reminded at the annual Good Friday Mass to pause and listen to the phrase “Father Forgive Them For They Do Not Know What They Do”. The Fizzlers aka Directors elevated Trustees of GWS on the other hand are Calculated and know exactly what they are doing. I know you have better things to do rather than doing things better hence my note to you. Going to Church and saying the Rosary is not sufficient. You too have a personal responsibility to look out for each other rather than yourself with a little initiative for this generation to seek and rise in excellence. It is also just over 10 years in England when the Goan community Flag Ship GOAUK was, in my opinion, hijacked disposing the Rules and Constitution and Memorandum articles of Association. If you want your well-nourished sizzling organisation/Party to go fizzle and fart engage a fizzler. Otherwise wait for it, in British Courts of Law “All Rise” is the custom as the Judge walks in before proceedings can begin and end. Just like in Church. Whatever happened to the Cultured Goan may I ask, Who Cares, who gives a hoot relax we live in a welfare state. Well sadly I do as we can observe in 2017 an increase in the attitude of selfishness and living in the ditch amongst fellow Goans in breadline Britain although expensive is popular . Coffin funding President and Delux models for one bedroom or two may be available at different rates from the charity Goan Welfare Society based on your contribution to crowd funding value less administrator’s expenses by Trustees into a new Board Game similar to monopoly if left unchecked will amount to Financial Terrorism. What exactly does the term Society mean, there is a Building Society and Society Building. GWS is the new kid on the block although dormant for over thirty years has been reactivated in my opinion to facilitate finance for self-appointed trustees in the name of the Goan Welfare Fund taking advantage of tax free donations including begging from the estates of individuals who are unable to speak for themselves. This school of thought is in our DNA Do not confuse with GWU (Goan Whores United) Different people same school of thought – see article at the end. The Goan Association UK as far as I can observe in the last ten years been run down due to collective dereliction of duty by the Directors who, as servants of the company, took advantage of our learned people in sleep mode only activated on bargain offers or free events like funerals. With the Prosecco over this Flagship of ours was abandoned in 2016/17 financial year with a mopping up crew leaving the Goan community all at sea. Maybe I am mistaken but has the Samba Bonka Festival date been announced. Or has something happened? This is one opportunity for our people to meet for open air mass and greet under our faith that binds us sadly this need is also met with greed even new arrivals are being exploited. Our laws in England are governed by legislation for the public good. At the Statutory AGM of 2016 I hear the Goan Association UK ,the trading name of G.O.A. UK LIMITED. once the Flagship of our community having celebrating 50 years sailed into stormy waters with some of the Pirates (Snakes and Ladders Board game players) appear to have been cast overboard triggering the launching the lifeboat GWS with its Golden Crew to migrate from welfare to wealth . This GWS Lifeboat with the track record of the current trustees former Directors of Goan Association having decimated the membership and intellectual property of the GOA UK will not be picking you up from your comfort zone or drowning instead lookout for demands harvesting your goodwill and for money with flyers, telephone calls and sob letters with crocodile tears to the bereaved in the name of Welfare. Who cares if the innocent elderly Life members you and me even our youth with ten years of graduates amongst them are ignored. In England Charity has now become an industry an advantage taken by the fizzlers aka Directors now self-elevated as Trustees etc. A lot has been spoken on this subject. One suggestion is that before contributing to the GWS Welfare Fund is to ask to see their terms of reference. Ignorance is no defence send me a copy of your communication as in the absence of any service level agreement people have complained that they never get any reply to their communication from the post holders. This may lead to a point when the Flying Squad will need to be alerted before the next Great Goan Getaway (GGG) e mail your comments and suggestions to [email protected] by closing date of 27 May 2017. If you agree our only hope is to cling on to lifebuoys managed by various unregulated Goan Organisations that keep us warm in music, entertainment, spiritual and Cultural needs. Today your support for these organisations is vital to keep our Heritage and link with Goa. Happy Easter – On this day we are reminded of the day when Christ rose from the dead. Something to Celebrate. For a list of post holders aka Fizzlers please refer to your notice of meetings for the last ten years. Mugshots may be available on contact list on website of GOAUK The instruments containing the duties list will be in the original constitution allegedly thrown overboard and can only be amended by resolution at Annual General Meetings. The ball as is in your court. Waiting for the next dance will not solve anything. Melvyn Fernandes (Escola Ghela) Thornton Heath, Surrey England March 2017 [email protected] (until 27 May 2017) ==================================== By Godfrey Pereira [Goanet-News] Ex-SUNDAY magazine (Kolkata) and INDIA TODAY journalist Godfrey Pereira doesn't pull his punches... Recently I journeyed back to Goa. In the twenty five years that I had been gone, there had been changes for the worse. Icould see that. Calangute, poster beach for tourism had tacky bhel puri stalls and loud Bollywood music; and dirt -- anddog feces, similar to the old Chowpatty Beach in Bombaybefore the state government cleared the lepers colony. Baga beach was filled with cheap Russians swilling KingfisherBeer. And, while Russian Grannies sunbathed topless, oilmassage beggars pandered to their drooping breasts. Anjuna was loaded with Buddhist trinkets and thrash. And what haveyou, the bloody Goans been doing while all these changes havebeen going on? The Russians have been openly running drugs in Goa? Armydeserters from Israel have put up signs in Goa clubs stating,'No Indians Allowed?' What have you paowallahs been doing? Eating last night's curry for breakfast? Complaining?Sushegad? Beach after beach is being decimated and not a peep from The Goans. You bleddy Goan men! What has happened to the cashew nuts between your legs? And the Goan women don't seem to care. Their sons are in The Gulf or Canada, sending money back home. Let somebody else revolt. It is none of your business. Bleddy, pass pao men. Make sign of the cross. Do the mando. Bleddy, never mind men, if husband is nutless! It is God's will! In Mumbai thousands of people from the ten villages of theGorai-Uttan belt have been fighting Essel World. They areprotesting against the proposed Special Entertainment Zone (SEZ) spread over 14,183 acres in the area. They know theystand to lose the core of their culture if this happens andso they are fighting this encroachment disguised as tourism. At least The East Indians there are trying. What have youGoans been doing as mining companies rape your hills andplunder your fresh water resources? What? Have another CashewFeni? Talk about how Aunty Mary's daughter is now going out with that bleddy German bugger? Or, are you'll fighting yoursisters, for property that you don't think they deserve? What has happened to you bloody Goans? For the sake of thegood lord, please wake up; the politicians are stealing yournuts from under you. The mining companies are copulating with the politicians. Don't you hear their grunts? They penetrateso deep, scouring for ore that they have destroyed many awater table. And when the ore has been gouged out, they leave the land, raped and bleeding red. Goa with her thighs spread,an ugly red gash that was once green! Have you not seen this happening? If you have not, thenperhaps you should convert to East Indianism. Ha! Sushegad.What say you stupid? Soon there will be not enough water to nourish the cashew trees on farms across Goa. Now you knowwhat I mean about stealing your nuts, you stupid Goans. OneLone Snap Shot. Quepem town in south Goa, the villages of Maina and Kawrem, Cheryl D'Souza, her nine-year old daughter Aki, her mother Dora, aged eighty-four, are fighting the miners who have destroyed their dignity and who now want to destroy Paikeachi Zor {Paik's Spring} a fountain head for the villagers. They want to buy her land, Sanfranscisco Estate and turn it into a graveyard. Cheryl D'Souza knows the deathly silence of graveyards well,her husband's ashes are scattered over her farm. When theminers wanted to rape her little daughter and take away her very existence, Cheryl turned She Wolf, feral and snarling,to thwart the beasts who are literally panting at herdoorstep. She wants to keep them away. They want to rape and then eather daughter alive. She has pleaded, begged of the Goans tohelp her fight this juggernaut that is pounding Goa but the Goans have stayed silent. Let her fight, let her go to jaillet her young daughter and old mother be incarnated, raped;we will continue to dip our paos in last night's stale curry, looking into our cracked plates so that we do not have to seeor know. What a shame! What a bleddy shame, you paowallahs! The miners made her a monetary offer that they thought shecould not refuse. She did. They threatened her. She foughtback. They humiliated her. She snarled in protest. They thought they had won the battle. One bright morning she declared war and tried to stop the oretrucks that were carting away the life blood of her Goa. Theyarrested her and her daughter and her old mother. And the Goans stayed silent watching her being gang raped by thepoliticians and the miners. What kind of people have youbloody Goans become? When a man does not care about his very nuts being endangered there must be something fundamentally wrong with that man. And the Goan women, so many of who depend on the land for their existence watch the men and do nothing. They watch. It's not their problem. Pass Pao Men. Say Rosary! Go Church! At least the East Indians in Gorai have the spunk to protest.You stupid sushegad Goans are watching your state beingturned around on its face and brutally buggered. Three women fighting a beast. You watch from afar. Is this entertainment?My old friend Bal Thackeray once told me, "Sometimes it isbetter to throw a few stones." It is a pity that the Tiger cannot fight with the She Wolf; maybe; just maybe, it wouldturn the mining beast around. And all you despicable Goans, who will not fight to save your nuts, go ahead have another feni. Or maybe, maybe, you will start to throw a few stones. Never mind what the Bible says. You can go to church in the morning, go to confession, say three Hail Mary's, but please do something, before your Goa is Gone. I say to you gutless Goans. The East Indians have bigger nuts and their sorpotel is better. Bleddy, What Say You Men? If you still have nuts,
