Thanks to Dr.George Pinto for clarifying the origins of WGD. In the early years of 2000 Dr. Giese had also suggested a Goan Bank. I bet if this idea had to take off, the so called Rene would have also claimed that it was his baby. BC________________ Colin, do not be fooled. History and facts are important and matter.??World Goa Day was initiated and started by Goa Sudharop. The idea was proposed by Filomena Giese, co-Founder of Goa Sudharop. Goa Sudharop paid for the initial set-up (website design, logo, domain, etc,) as one of Goa Sudharop's projects. I had initially suggested Jan 1 as the date - a new year, a new beginning?for Goans. The late Jorge Noronha (Portugal) suggested August 20 to coincide with Konkani being made the official language of Goa (1992). Goa Sudharop heavily promoted the idea of WGD. Rene was a Goa Sudharop advisor at that time but with a failure of character Rene brought the?publicity to himself and has never acknowledged?or corrected the record and promoted WGD as his own, never contributing a single penny (I hear this is still the case). I personally drafted many of the publicity emails Rene sent out, including articles for WGD.? For the record, Goa Sudharop did the initial work to launch?WGD and I pers onally spent a lot more time than Rene to get WGD off the ground.
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