It is NOT just the tourists - our local buses & trucks fly on that stretch, as well as cars with Goan number plates. Havana-Kay had a narrow escape on the very spot that Frank was lost a few months ago when a bus actually left the road missing us by mm! It was going so fast if we had been a half second earlier I dread to think of the consequences. The level of driving is bad anyway - the tourists are 'usually' much worse than bad as they are in 'holiday' mode and seem even more regardless than the norm.
Franks family have rebuilt their wall countless times from the many accidents that happen on that stretch. When I spoke to Aquila she said they had given up reporting the amount of times their wall had been knocked down and had applied ages ago for a speed breaker....lets hope this terrible tragedy wakes up those that can do into actually doing something to prevent another needless accident. One of the many reasons we opposed the petrol pump opposite the crematorium was the sheer number of accidents that happen on that stretch - and now we have lost Frank. We need GO SLOW signage up - maybe even some in the style of the pass roads in the Himalayas 'Go slow or die' 'this is a village not an express way' to get the point across. At danger points and at intersections however small they may be - people are just pulling out into high speeding traffic. We need, urgently, speed breakers at that turn and something done about access to 'that' petrol pump - cars just cut across the road disregarding oncoming traffic and just pull out without looking. Last week a tiny school girl just managed to dive out of the way of a bike zooming out from the pump. Frank will not be the last victim on this horrendous stretch of road unless we do something about it. I am on my way home to Goa and I am ready to help in whatever way I can. Best, Helene Helene Derkin Menezes Estrelas E Sinos, Pequeno Morod, Saligao, Bardez, Goa 403511 INDIA ________________________________ From: muriel&mario <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:24 PM Subject: Re: [SALIGAONET] Death : Frank D'Souza - Pequen Morod Dear Saligaonettekara, On 5 April 2012 04:46, Christopher Desouza <[email protected]> wrote: So Sorry! A wake up call for the village to fight for speed regulations through the village! Indeed! This is the second death in less than a year, at the same treacherous stretch of road between the crematorium and the culvert opposite the Ayurvedic and Natural Health Centre (ANHC). April 2011 snatched Nigvaddo's Barsen Cordeiro (husband to Clara, and father of Savio, Venas, Rochelle Ann and Derek) from us, when he was brutally felled in a hit-and-run case last Good Friday. A senior citizen, he was not old; he was still a working man. This Holy Week it was a perfectly health and very active, 81 old Frank D'Souza. >From the Calangute church to the O Coqueiro circle in Porvorim, this 6 km stretch has been a death trap to local villagers, since the infamous CHOGM road became a racing track for speed freaks. The culprits have been mainly Indian and foreign tourists zooming through our peaceful villages of Alto Porvorim/Pilerne, Sangolda, Saligao and Calangute. These revelers are usually smashed on Goa's cheap booze and freely available drugs. Some are still high on or fantasysing about the debauchery from the prostitution, paedophilia and male prostitution in ample store for them on our coast. Speed only heightens the licentious Goan experience! >From 1987, as part of the Saligao Nagrik Kriti Samiti and later in the Saligao Civic and Consumer Cell, we have been campaigning for "Speed Limit 40 Kmph" signposts, as well as 'rumble-strip-speed-breakers' at regular intervals, on this road in the village. Threatened elected representatives, constantly thwarted the campaigns for short sighted political reasons, saying that highways like Saligao's main artery to the coast, cannot have speed breakers. "It hampers progress in tourism", we were told. So, every year, as this unabated slaughter of our innocents continues, we continue to willingly sacrifice our people, our farm and domestic animals at the altar of progress and development. Dam building tradition in India has it that the successful completion of every major dam, demands the cold blooded human sacrifice of a labourer or two. In Saligao, we seem to be fashioning a similar tradition of our own: unless the CHOGM road, this precious symbol of our progress, money-making and development is soaked in the blood of at least one of our massacred villagers, we will not prosper and advance! And with our dead in our arms, some of us are left cradling the question: progress, money and development, at what cost?! Can we have volunteers who will initiate action on this urgent issue of speed regulations and deterrents in Saligao? In mourning with all those families who have been forced to sacrifice loved ones, farm animals and pets to the god of thoughtless progress and speedy development. M&M. --- On Wed, 4/4/12, Albert Desouza <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Albert Desouza <[email protected]> >Subject: RE: [SALIGAONET] Death : Frank D'Souza - Pequen Morod >To: [email protected] >Date: Wednesday, April 4, 2012, 8:33 AM > > > >Mr.Frank De Souza was a great lover of konkani Tiatrs. Whenever I used to be >in Bombay acting in tiatrs he would be there. The day the tiatr academy was >started he was also present there for any function. Last I met him on 13th >February the day my tiatr book was released . He came and hugged me and said >that he was proud of me . He showed me a plague which was presented to him by >the wife of Seby coutinho .This plague was distributed to all those who had >come for memorial mass in honour of late Seby coutinho. He also showed me a >write up on Seby coutinho . It was an old cine times which he had brought to >be handed over to Tomazin Cardoz. Just six days to be precise I saw him >walking along the church road with his cycle in his hand. He waved out to me >but I did not know that would be the last wave of him. He told me that he was >81 years old and that he cycles even at this age. He looked young . He was a >man full of love .His smiles spoke volumes of his character. He was really a great man. He had vast knowledge of tiatrs and actors too. Many of the konkani actors knew him. We have lost a friend, a brother and konkani tiatr lover. May God give his wife and children enough courage to carry on without him. Albert de souza > > > >________________________________ >Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:46:48 +0800 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [SALIGAONET] Death : Frank D'Souza - Pequen Morod >To: [email protected] > > >Death : Mr Frank D'Souza DOB 08th October 1930 expired under tragic >circumstances on 03rd April 2012. when he was hit on Chogm road just nearr his >house by a speeding tourist bike. > >Husband of Astrid and father of Averell/Sheril, Aquila and Briston/Alka and >grandchildren. > > >Funeral this evening at 5PM at Mae de Deus Church followed by burial > >May his soul RIP > >Allwyn >-- >Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe email [email protected] > -- >Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe email [email protected] > > > -- >Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net >To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >To unsubscribe email [email protected] > -- "We did not inherit Abreu Vaddo/Saligao/Goa/the Earth from our ancestors, we merely borrowed it from our children." - Indigenous Wisdom ................................................................ there *is* anOTHERgoa at <http://www.anothergoa.blogspot.in> & <http://www.youtube.com/anothergoa> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' muriel & mario, c/o FULKAR, 6/22, sonarbhatt, saligao. bardez. goa. 403511. tel: 0832-2278276 / 2409999 <anothergoa AT gmail.com> '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' -- Saligao-Net is at http://groups.google.com/group/saligao-net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe email [email protected]
