Dear Peter,
Further to my response to your post below, I did say Portuguese built Mapusa
Municipal Market. However, I meant to say " Mapusa Municipal Market built
during the Portuguese era." There is a marked difference between the two.
The Portuguese did not build the Market for Mapusa per se. Goans in
authority did. Goans like the then President of the MMC Pinto Rosario, the
Architect/Engineer Armando Fonseca and the overall incharge at PWD Panjim
Mr. Vitorino Pinto who is presently in Switzerland heading WHO [if I am not
mistaken]. At my request to help us to design a modern Goa, he has responded
positively. Needless to say that Goans of yester years are still very much
concerned about what is happening to Goa and Mapusa.
Cheers
floriano
goasuraj/geag/pps/mne
9890470896
www.goasu-raj.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Fernandes" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 2:01 AM
Subject: [Goanet] Press Conference of MNE at Mapusa on 1 October, 2010 p.m.
I love the manifesto of the MNE as detailed by Floriano on the
Goanet. They have covered most of the immediate requirements of our
lovely Mapusa. The most important item which has not received their
attention is the improvement in the Mapusa Fish Market as there in no
mention of it anywhere. Can this market be demolished/rebuilt to
bring it up to some quality and sanitation standards? During the past
rainy season one had to walk in the fish market with umbrellas or raincoats
because the market was open to the sky from the top as it did not have a
covered roof !!!! Whilst walking you had to almost swim to check
which fish to buy and from whom to buy as the floor was in such a terrible
condition with broken tiles and puddles. The state of this market is
so pathetic with the water puddles, open to sky, broken flooring, rotten
fish on the floor, spitting around, etc.
