On 20 August 2017 at 18:01, Eugene Correia <[email protected]> wrote:
> World Goa Day today, but some diaspora assocuations are gaving it on > different days, one in Oct. > The GOA Toronto used to have a picnic with some fun and games some years > ago. Today ur is participating in India Day celebrations of I-Day in > diwntown. > Really, what does WGD signify?? some years ago, a contriversy broke out as > to who first started WGD. I think the Kuwait goans said they did it first. > then Rene Barretto of UK started it on a global note. > Rene also started a global goan alliance but it sort of died after a > couple of years. > Like to know more about it. > > eugene > > Sent from my iPad RESPONSE: When I was President of the G.O.A. U.K. we had started a Festival de Goa in 1994! We had T Shirts printed...unfortunately, mine has gone astray. So rightfully the GOA UK were the founders of this. -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.
