[Goanet-news]10 JAN 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPIGS
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 10 January 2004 TO MAKE GOA SELF-SUFFICIENT IN POWER: A joint power generating project by governments of Goa and Maharashtra and the National Thermal power Corporation, to be shortly launched, will make Goa self-sufficient in the power sector, said Union Power Minister Anant G Geete on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone for the launching of the Accelerated Power Development Reform Programme scheme at Aquem in South Goa. The proposed project is of 1000 MW, said the minister. (GT) UNDERGROUND CABLES FOR 3 MORE TOWNS: Union Power Minister Anant Gete on Friday approved Goa government's proposal for underground cable distribution network in three more towns of Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda, in addition to Panjim and Margao and also sanctioned 25 mobile electricity vans under APDRP. (H) LAMP POLE FALLS: In an alarming incident, two foreigners proceeding on a motorcycle miraculously escaped injuries after a lamp pole along Rua de Ourem came crashing down inches away from the on Friday (Jan 9) afternoon. (H) THE STRUGGLE THAT GOT 50 PC BUS FARE FOR STUDENTS: Few are aware that 25 years ago, the members of the uniformed fraternity had to wage a sustained struggle to grab the benefit from the government for generations of students to enjoy the 50 per cent concession when traveling by bus. It was not a government scheme. On 11 January 2004, the students agitation for 50 per cent bus fare will complete 25 years. The 50 per concession is unique in the country, recalls Avertino Miranda, who went to jail during the struggle when he was in short pants and barely 14 years old. (GT) CATAMARAN CUTS TIME, BUT PRICE? It promises to eventually make the approximately 600-km distance between India's commercial capital and the holiday state in just eight hours. But with tickets priced at Rs.1700, can the new catamaran service offer a popular new connecting to link Mumbai and Goa? (H) FLAWS IN EDUCATION POLICY DRAFT: The need to develop a right attitude towards students by teachers, beginning from the pre-primary school and preparing of a reorientation programme for updating teaching skills were cited as preconditions for the successful implementation of any educative reforms envisaged by the State government. Educationists, teachers and NGOs, who assembled at the TB Cunha Hall in Panaji yesterday to discuss the Draft Proposals for School Education Policy for Goa, stressed the need to correct the serious flaws and lacunae in the draft. (GT) BHEMBRE TO HEAD CONG THINK-TANK: The Congress Party yesterday named former legislator Uday Bhembre to head a cell of intellectuals which will act as a think-tank for the party in Goa, along with Lambert Mascarenhas, DV Borkar, industrialist RS Kamat, N Shivdas and Dilip Borkar. (H) STEPS ON FOR CONG, NCP TIE-UP: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president and MLA Luizinho Faleiro yesterday disclosed that he was in constant touch with the Nationalist Congress Party state president and MLA Dr Wilfred de Souza for an alliance during the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. (GT) FIRE AT FIVE PLACES IN BICHOLIM: Property worth Rs.1.5 lakh was gutted in five different incidents of fire reported in the Bicholim taluka. A property belonging to Caraciol Po of Sal and his plantation of cashew, mango and coconut trees, a cashew plantation owned by Grurudas Gawas of Naveli and Anil Naik of Maina, a haystack belonging to Bhlachandra Sawant (in Chorao) and a cashew plantation belonging to Ramakant Hoble and Bhiva Volvoikar were gutted by fire. (GT) MURDERED OVER LOVE AFFAIR: The Mapusa police have recovered the body of an unknown male person aged around 25 years from a building under construction near the Bodgeshwar temple. The victim is allegedly to have been murdered by Jitendra Kumar Sharma (28) of Lucknow because he had illicit relations with Jitendra's lover. (GT) PANJIM ABLAZE COMPETITION WINNERS: Among the winners of the Panjim Ablaze Competition, Auspicio Rodrigues has bagged the top prize for Individual Houses, followed by Dr Maria Lilia Sukhija, Rafail Peregrino da Costa, Basilio Soares and Dr Ajoy Estibeiro, with a special prize going to Eng Alexio Fernandes. In the Shop and Offices categories, the order of winners is: Vaibhav Tamba (Simply Delicious), Power Point, VERY, Vistar Honda and Place Magsons Super Centre. Among Flats and Apartments, Ryan and Arenia Semelhago come first, followed by Minela Sanchez, Kevin Pinto Rebelo and Aaron Rodrigues. Director General of Police leads in the Corporate, Government and NGO Undertakings section. The remaining three prizes go to Hotel Rajdhani, Hotel Solmar and Palacio de Goa. The prizes will be presented to the winners during the Kite Festival at Miramar Beach on 18 January at 5.00 pm. NRI Ashok Bajaj, Bahrain has sponsored to help defray the cost of Panjim Ablaze. Bajaj said, If you carry this forward every year, you can easily emulate the Dubai Shopping Festival which also began in a small way. Armando Gonsalves and
[Goanet]Goa Samellan another round of NATO
This years Goa Samellan which seemed so promising on paper because it had included some nehruites, in fact turned out to be more of a flat samosa or an other round of NATO (No Action Talk Only). NRG's have already asked the panel to solve the problems of Goa. But the chappies say it is too difficult to adhere to the rules. While bharat continues to be a bowl of prosperity where managers (IT)earn more than 100,000 rupees, the local chappies who even reside in evacuee property have to resort to NRG with their begging bowls. The rest of the 600 who were present at the seminar will probably contribute bhingtams to the Goan economy. With no power to challenge the neo colonialist will Goa be a home of cowherds? Kerala is believed to be constructing a billion USD container port. With the initial phase costing around USD 396 million. Where is all this dosh coming from? Colaco Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
Re: [Goanet]East Timor... another perspective
--- cornel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bernado, I didn't say I was thick! I said I was sorry if I sounded thick as trying to comprehend your post was difficult. Could you not be generous and express yourself more simply, including your latest reply to me? Dear Cornel, In the 60's the Soviet Union was considered to be 'successful' type of tiger economy, and would solve the problems of many colonized countries. Therefore there were many groups and incidentally a proxy cold war was fought in these colonized places. In the case of East Timor there was Fretelin a left wing group who were stronger than those backed by Indonesia. Worried of a communist fall out in E. Timor the satelite state of Indonesia (massive investment by USA) and whole hearted backing of the US of A under the leadership of G. Ford, invaded Timor in 1975. For more than 20 years and under Indonesia things have not improved in E. Timor B. Colaco Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]Konkani disappearing in Goa
Konkani disappearing in Goa Response from GL: Credit for what you have described goes to the khoro niz-Goenkars. I am a member of the Konkaniforum discussion group. I have not seen a single post in over a month. And prior to that, perhaps just one post a week. In typical Goan fashion you keep blaming someone else and finding an external excuse. Pardon me for highlighting the obvious. From: Simon carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a lot of truth in what you have written. The migrants are already in majority in some villages in Goa. Sancoale is one. Six members of the village panchayat are migrant Kannadigas. The Sarpanch and Dy. Sarpanch of the village panchayat are Kannadigas. Their population has outnumbered the locals. Don't be surprised if one of the political parties field a migrant in Cortalim Constituency for the Assembly elections next time. Credit for this should go to the Congress Party which allowed the migrants to construct thousands of illegal houses in the Communidade land. Simon Even Konkani will disappear completely. Make a note of it. It is little spoken nowadays. The new imigrants from the rest of India do not speak Konkani neither are interested in learning it. Hindi or Marathi will rapidly replace Konkani and there is nothing to be done about it. The immigrants will be the majority very rapidly ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]10 JAN 2004: GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS
GOACOM DAILY NEWS CLIPPINGS 10 January 2004 TO MAKE GOA SELF-SUFFICIENT IN POWER: A joint power generating project by governments of Goa and Maharashtra and the National Thermal power Corporation, to be shortly launched, will make Goa self-sufficient in the power sector, said Union Power Minister Anant G Geete on the occasion of the laying of the foundation stone for the launching of the Accelerated Power Development Reform Programme scheme at Aquem in South Goa. The proposed project is of 1000 MW, said the minister. (GT) UNDERGROUND CABLES FOR 3 MORE TOWNS: Union Power Minister Anant Gete on Friday approved Goa government's proposal for underground cable distribution network in three more towns of Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda, in addition to Panjim and Margao and also sanctioned 25 mobile electricity vans under APDRP. (H) LAMP POLE FALLS: In an alarming incident, two foreigners proceeding on a motorcycle miraculously escaped injuries after a lamp pole along Rua de Ourem came crashing down inches away from the on Friday (Jan 9) afternoon. (H) THE STRUGGLE THAT GOT 50 PC BUS FARE FOR STUDENTS: Few are aware that 25 years ago, the members of the uniformed fraternity had to wage a sustained struggle to grab the benefit from the government for generations of students to enjoy the 50 per cent concession when traveling by bus. It was not a government scheme. On 11 January 2004, the students agitation for 50 per cent bus fare will complete 25 years. The 50 per concession is unique in the country, recalls Avertino Miranda, who went to jail during the struggle when he was in short pants and barely 14 years old. (GT) CATAMARAN CUTS TIME, BUT PRICE? It promises to eventually make the approximately 600-km distance between India's commercial capital and the holiday state in just eight hours. But with tickets priced at Rs.1700, can the new catamaran service offer a popular new connecting to link Mumbai and Goa? (H) FLAWS IN EDUCATION POLICY DRAFT: The need to develop a right attitude towards students by teachers, beginning from the pre-primary school and preparing of a reorientation programme for updating teaching skills were cited as preconditions for the successful implementation of any educative reforms envisaged by the State government. Educationists, teachers and NGOs, who assembled at the TB Cunha Hall in Panaji yesterday to discuss the Draft Proposals for School Education Policy for Goa, stressed the need to correct the serious flaws and lacunae in the draft. (GT) BHEMBRE TO HEAD CONG THINK-TANK: The Congress Party yesterday named former legislator Uday Bhembre to head a cell of intellectuals which will act as a think-tank for the party in Goa, along with Lambert Mascarenhas, DV Borkar, industrialist RS Kamat, N Shivdas and Dilip Borkar. (H) STEPS ON FOR CONG, NCP TIE-UP: Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president and MLA Luizinho Faleiro yesterday disclosed that he was in constant touch with the Nationalist Congress Party state president and MLA Dr Wilfred de Souza for an alliance during the ensuing Lok Sabha polls. (GT) FIRE AT FIVE PLACES IN BICHOLIM: Property worth Rs.1.5 lakh was gutted in five different incidents of fire reported in the Bicholim taluka. A property belonging to Caraciol Po of Sal and his plantation of cashew, mango and coconut trees, a cashew plantation owned by Grurudas Gawas of Naveli and Anil Naik of Maina, a haystack belonging to Bhlachandra Sawant (in Chorao) and a cashew plantation belonging to Ramakant Hoble and Bhiva Volvoikar were gutted by fire. (GT) MURDERED OVER LOVE AFFAIR: The Mapusa police have recovered the body of an unknown male person aged around 25 years from a building under construction near the Bodgeshwar temple. The victim is allegedly to have been murdered by Jitendra Kumar Sharma (28) of Lucknow because he had illicit relations with Jitendra's lover. (GT) PANJIM ABLAZE COMPETITION WINNERS: Among the winners of the Panjim Ablaze Competition, Auspicio Rodrigues has bagged the top prize for Individual Houses, followed by Dr Maria Lilia Sukhija, Rafail Peregrino da Costa, Basilio Soares and Dr Ajoy Estibeiro, with a special prize going to Eng Alexio Fernandes. In the Shop and Offices categories, the order of winners is: Vaibhav Tamba (Simply Delicious), Power Point, VERY, Vistar Honda and Place Magsons Super Centre. Among Flats and Apartments, Ryan and Arenia Semelhago come first, followed by Minela Sanchez, Kevin Pinto Rebelo and Aaron Rodrigues. Director General of Police leads in the Corporate, Government and NGO Undertakings section. The remaining three prizes go to Hotel Rajdhani, Hotel Solmar and Palacio de Goa. The prizes will be presented to the winners during the Kite Festival at Miramar Beach on 18 January at 5.00 pm. NRI Ashok Bajaj, Bahrain has sponsored to help defray the cost of Panjim Ablaze. Bajaj said, If you carry this forward every year, you can easily emulate the Dubai Shopping Festival which also began in a small way. Armando Gonsalves and
[Goanet]National Football League: Dempo maintain unbeaten run
Dempo maintain unbeaten run January 09, 2004 20:44 IST Dempo Sports Club, Goa, consolidated their position atop the table after getting past Kolkata giants Mohammedan Sporting 1-0 in an eighth National Football League match in Kolkata on Friday. Prolific scorer Sunday Seah scored the only goal of the match in the 17th minute of the opening session to enable the Goans maintain their unbeatable record in the high-profile league. It was the Liberian striker's sixth goal and made his the leading scorer of the tournament. Dempo, who registered their sixth victory in the ongoing edition of the NFL, have so far culled 20 points from eight outings. The match at the Salt Lake stadium never rose to great height, as both sides showed lack of cohesion. Dempo sized up their opponents for the first quarter of an hour before launching into the offensive, and struck the winner from a set-piece situation, taking the Sporting defenders by surprise. Madhav Das's measured free-kick from near the box went to Seah, who put the ball home for his sixth goal in the league. Stung by the reverse, Sporting attacked with gusto, but the Dempo defenders held firm. In the 24th minute, Sporting medio Bungo Singh's shot went wide. They maintained the momentum in the second session, and twice Edeh Chidi came close to scoring. First his spectacular side volley missed the target, before his fine header went out. ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]UG FINAL POSTPONED.
UG FINAL POSTPONED. The soccer final match scheduled today morning at Sour Ground Kuwait City between both the title aspirants Bombay Boys and Curtorcares is postponed to coming Friday as per the information just received. The postponment was warranted because of the continued rains for two days in Kuwait which converted the soccer ground at Sour wattery and making the surface uneven to play. I have one suggestion to all those involved in organising soccer activities at Sour Grounds. Some of the tournaments under Kuwait Indian Foot-ball Federation are organised at some reputed Statidia where even if rain comes nothing happens to the ground. Winter season especially December and January are always rainy in Kuwait. In order to avoid postponing of soccer matches at Sour Ground due to rain water, those organisers who organise their tournaments at Stadia should be instructed to organise their tournaments in Winter only during the months of December January so that more Fridays are saved instead of wasted as it happened today. God alone knows what will happen on coming Friday. If the rain repeates then again postponement. Hence, my suggestion in the future. A. Veronica Fernandes, Kuwait _ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]Genealogy - A name correction
In my previous post, I wrongly stated the name of the person who did the write-up on Melvyn S Misquita as Fred D'Souza. The correct name should have been Fred Noronha. Apology, Fred. ___ Dreaming of a Swiss Account? Get it here: http://freemail.swissinfo.org ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
Re: [goa-research-net] [Goanet]Konkani disappearing in Goa?[Scanned]
Just a word on the Macao transition. I understand that because of what happened in 1961 in Goa and Portugal's refusal to negotiate over Goa with the Nehru gov't (and the subsequent invasion), that Portugal was very careful to negotiate with the Chinese for the transfer of Macao. Of course, there was a dramatic change in the gov't of Portugal since the SalaZar regime, but their Goan experience actually influenced what happened years later in the peaceful diplomatic negotiations for the turn over of Macao. Just a few comments. Janet Rubinoff Dear Ms. Rubinoff, In 1976, Portugal wanted to hand over Macau to China. But China said wait, wait a minute. We are still not ready to take back Macau. Unlike Goa which was invaded and knocked down like ten pins! B. Colaco Yahoo! Messenger - Communicate instantly...Ping your friends today! Download Messenger Now http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com/download/index.html ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]Genealogy
With reference to Sevrine Barrie's request to readers asking for help on tracing Goan family genealogy, I would recommend asking Melvyn S Misquita for advice on this. Melvyn a young lad in his early 30s has created a very interesting website of the Misquita family of Aldona tracing his ancestors to several generations. This must have taken a lot of hard work and skill. The website can be seen at www.misquita.org. Here is a write up of Melvyn by Fred D'Souza some time ago Melvyn S Misquita represents a trend among some of the younger journalists -- well-educated (he holds two M.A. degrees), Net-savvy, and eager to extend the boundaries of journalism in Goa should be looking at, apart from just the Secretariat. Recently, his work made it to the news in a major way, when the Indian Express carried a large spread in its national-edition on how Misquita had traced the strange story of the sinking of a World War II British passenger liner, BritanniaIII, which had dozens of Goans (including one of Misquita's grand-uncle's) on board. On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:34:21 EST, Sevrine Barrie [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi there: I am curious to know if any of the Goans on the net have tried to do a geneology of their family. Do you know how to obtain baptism, marriage etc . information from Churches in Goa? If anyone out there has any ideas please let me know. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks alot. Sevrine Barrie ___ Dreaming of a Swiss Account? Get it here: http://freemail.swissinfo.org ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]Tears of blood
In a message dated 1/8/2004 10:36:56 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IT WASN'T TEARS OF BLOOD: A committee appointed by the Archbishop-Patriarch Raul Gonsalves concluded after a probe that it was not 'tears of blood' which flowed from a portrait of Sacred Heart of Jesus at Camorlim. The extraordinary phenomenon wherein two girls from Camorlim had claimed to have seen the weeping portrait, had occurred on 27 February 2003.(GT) Great news! Good to see some rational skepticism in the guardians of faith. Cheers, Santosh ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
[Goanet]Goenchem Git
Hi For those interested in Goan songs Fr Lourdinho Barreto's Goenchem Git Pustok 1 II should serve right. Check local book stores. Fr Barreto was Director of Kala Academy's Department of Western Music. Regards Tony Martin __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the Signing Bonus Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus ## # Send submissions for Goanet to [EMAIL PROTECTED] # # PLEASE remember to stay on-topic (related to Goa), and avoid top-posts # # More details on Goanet at http://joingoanet.shorturl.com/ # # Please keep your discussion/tone polite, to reflect respect to others # ##
