[Goanet-News] Two die after balcony collapse in Vile Parle during St John de Baptist procession (via Richa Pinto)

[Frederick Noronha]

Two persons have died after a part of a balcony, of a ground plus two
storey structure located at Vile Parle goanthon crashed on Sunday around
2.27 pm. The duo have been identified as Pricilla Misquita, 65 and Robi
Misquita, 70 https://twitter.com/richapintoi/status/1672937807281811457
An update said: The Vile Parle #balcony crash in which two senior citizens
fell from the balcony and died. The duo were watching the procession taken
out in honour of the Saint John the Baptist.
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Re: [Goanet] Expunging Goa’s 451-year History

[Eddie D'Sa]

-- Original Message --
From: "Gilbert Lawrence" 
To: "Goanet Org" ; "goa-book-c...@googlegroups.com" 


Sent: Sunday, 25 Jun, 23 At 17:43
Subject: [Goanet] Expunging Goa’s 451-year History
Goa’s Chief Minster (CM)suggested in his exuberance the purging of 451 
years of Goa’s history. Yet it is ironical that at the same time the BJP 
boss, Prime Minister Narender Modi was telling a joint session of 
Congress in Washington that India is a democracy and an all-inclusive 
society. Yet Modi must be also well aware that the Hindus discriminate 
strongly against Muslims and Christians & this was brought to BIDEN's 
attention.


   Eddie
What is the Konkani proverb for such situations?
Regards, GL

[Goanet] Two die after balcony collapse in Vile Parle during St John de Baptist procession (via Richa Pinto)

[Frederick Noronha]

Two persons have died after a part of a balcony, of a ground plus two
storey structure located at Vile Parle goanthon crashed on Sunday around
2.27 pm. The duo have been identified as Pricilla Misquita, 65 and Robi
Misquita, 70 https://twitter.com/richapintoi/status/1672937807281811457
An update said: The Vile Parle #balcony crash in which two senior citizens
fell from the balcony and died. The duo were watching the procession taken
out in honour of the Saint John the Baptist.
--
FN * +91-9822122436 * 784 Saligao 403511 Bardez Goa

[Goanet] Schedule for Monday 26th June 2023

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Schedule for Monday 26th June 2023

12:00 AM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


12:30 AM

Train Yourself to be Holy - Dr Brenda Nazareth Menezes


1:00 AM

Mass in Konkani for Sunday


2:00 AM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


2:22 AM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 75 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


2:30 AM

Youthopia - Chadel Nash Fernandes - Footballer interviewed by Sammy Coelho


2:45 AM

Hospital Ministry - Talk by Fr. Jorge Fernandes


3:00 AM

Literally Goa - Fr Delio MendoncaSJ interviewed by Frederick Noronha


3:35 AM

Person of Substance - River Sal in peril


4:35 AM

Prayer for Healing from Cancer


4:40 AM

Inner Freedom - Talk by Sr Shilpa


4:57 AM

Blessed words of the Holy Ones -St Augustine of Hippo - Quote


5:05 AM

Heads Held High - Rosary High School, Dona Paula


5:35 AM

Bhagiancher Niyall III - Br Malvino Alfonso ocd


5:50 AM

Talk on the Holy Spirit - Robin Merwin D'Souza


6:20 AM

Povitr Atmo - Orlando D'Souza


7:00 AM

Praise & Worship - Magno Menezes - SJVSRC Old Goa


7:19 AM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 76 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


7:20 AM

Museum - Sant Thome Varca 2/3


8:00 AM

Discernment - Talk by Sr Elsis Mathew MSMI


9:00 AM

Vocation - I need you - VCDC


9:48 AM

Liturgy of the Hours - Konkani - Sem Aleston


10:00 AM

Tunchea Apovnneak SobtaTosliem Jivit Jiveunk Vavrat - Magno Menezes


10:45 AM

Liturgy of the Hours - Konkani - Sem Aleston


10:54 AM

Bhajan - Tu Sapta Divya Danancha Dataru - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx


11:00 AM

Wisdom Reflections -2 - Rachol Professors


11:20 AM

Intercessions - English


11:30 AM

Mass in English


12:15 PM

Daily Flash


12:20 PM

Abraham - Our father in faith - Dr Sarita Nazareth


12:45 PM

What's Cooking - Season 2 - Episode 11


1:00 PM

Literally Goa -Joseph C. Fernandes interviewed by Frederick Noronha


1:30 PM

Live Like St Paul - A Family Witness - Eps 5


2:00 PM

Feast of St. Francis de Sales - Talk by MSFS Fathers


2:25 PM

Wealth out of Waste - Flower Making


2:50 PM

Synodal Journey with Mary - Fedora Lia Dias


3:00 PM

Marian Reflections -1 - DCC


3:30 PM

Divine Mercy Chaplet - English


3:39 PM

Blessed words of the Holy Ones -St Augustine of Hippo - Quote


3:40 PM

Talk on Envy - Dr Silvia Noronha


4:00 PM

Rosary - Joyful Mysteries


4:23 PM

Bhokti Lharam - Bhag 22


4:30 PM

Senior Citizens Exercises - COOJ


5:00 PM

Heads Held High - Fr. Agnel High School


5:25 PM

Senior Shepherds - Fr Salvador Ferrao sj intererviewed by Velma Fermandes


6:00 PM

Mass in Konkani


6:45 PM

Faith Magic of Heart - Talk by Sr Shilpa


6:56 PM

Devik Kaklut - Poem by Sandhya Fernandes


7:00 PM

Povitr Atmo - Orlando D'Souza


7:30 PM

Saibinnichi Ruzai - Sontosache Mister


7:52 PM

Tell me a Story


8:00 PM

Breaking Barriers through Dialogue - Child abuse


8:50 PM

Bhajan - Tu Sapta Divya Danancha Dataru - Fr Glen D'Silva sfx


8:54 PM

Devachem Utor - Stotram - Avesor 77 -Vachpi Orlando D'Souza


9:00 PM

Adoration - Fr. Saturnino Colaco - SJVSRC Old Goa


9:35 PM

Ratchem Magnem


9:55 PM

Person of Substance - River Sal in peril


11:00 PM

Parish of the Week - Aldona 3


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[Goanet] Expunging Goa’s 451-year History

[Gilbert Lawrence]

Goa’s Chief Minster (CM)suggested in his oversightand exuberance, the purging 
of 451 years of Goa’s history. Such lapses can happen to any of us, especially 
whencaught in political jingoism. 
Yet it is ironical that this speech in Goa is at precisely the same time the 
boss of his party, Prime Minister Narender Modi was telling a joint session 
ofCongress in Washington, DC that India is a democracy and an 
all-inclusivesociety.

What is the Konkani proverb for such situations?
Regards, GL

[Goanet] Rumblers be used sparingly

[Nelson Lopes]

Rumblers are easy way out
It has been scientifically proved that they cause severe spinal injuries
and
are a posotive danger to pregnant women  During  rainy season rumblers are
slippery  Rumlers  cause damage to vehicles.Drivers do not respect , speed
adn overtake enhancing  risks.The height intended to slow traffic  only
increases  sound destroying peace 24x7
No measures are in place  for sound beariers  or to book errant
drivers.There  is no scientific  study  to address the  problem  created by
rumblers heights ,  spacig  breadth and the number  of strips.Highways are
not designed  for obstacle race  course  and  hinder smooth flow of
traffic  Like signals, blinkers, dividers  Zebra lines  are  meant to
caution drivers  who  have no  discipline. Mere  adoption of mesures only
adds to woes  of affected  residents.It isicumbent  of those entering
highways at crossings  to stop and proceed.Broadening, signs boards  of
speed limit  , crossings  can caution drivers
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[Goanet] Hidden Truths (O Heraldo, 25/6/2023)

[V M]

http://epaper.heraldgoa.in/articlepage.php?articleid=OHERALDO_GOA_20230625_6_2=377px=oHeraldo=6

Parashuram and Portugal are reliable distractions in India’s smallest
state, where governance has effectively collapsed, and the economy is
unable to provide decent jobs. Unemployment crested to nearly 17% in
January, and it still remains double the rate of the rest of the
country. Rule of law is conspicuously absent in the crucial aspects of
any functioning society. Meanwhile, an extraordinary onslaught on the
environment is personified by the ongoing brutalization of the
once-lovely Mandovi riverfront of Panjim. Now we have learned even the
Gods won’t be spared, as we see with the hasty installation of an
incomplete statue of Gomantabhoomi Janaka Parashuram to preside over
the torn-up landscape and vulgar casino blight. It is a fitting symbol
of the veritable Kali Yuga in contemporary Goa.

There’s an extreme cynicism to the recent unveilings in the capital,
where an entire mountainside of rocks has been dumped to overwhelm the
riverside ecology, and hundreds of trees were bulldozed to lay down an
elevated concrete promenade. There was no public consultation, no
approval process, no environmental assessment, and no response to
agitated appeals from concerned citizens. On the contrary, there have
been only insults to public intelligence, like naming the grossly
illegal bridge across the St. Inez creek as “Yog Setu”. As the Roman
historian Tacitus wrote about the worst plunderers over 2000 years
ago: “they make a desolation, and they call it peace.”

It is the job numbers that truly indicate the depth of Goa’s crisis.
On the one hand, higher than average literacy and education levels
prevail when compared to the rest of the country. Yet, when it comes
to learning outcomes, all the surrounding states are far better:
Maharashtra, Karnataka, and especially Kerala. That is one clear
indication of mismanagement, which shows up even more starkly when it
comes to jobs. There is no other explanation other than comprehensive
failure of governance for why Goa’s unemployment remains three times
higher than every one of its neighbours, year after year without end.

To learn more about this predicament, I reached out to Dr. Nilesh
Borde, the professor of finance and strategy and Vice Dean (Academic)
of Goa Business School at Goa University, who told me that
“unemployment data is a good indicator of what the economic situation
in Goa is, but the methodology has to be sound. The ways these surveys
are conducted are questionable, with skewed or problematic samples.
Having said this, there surely also exists disguised employment, such
as engineers working as data operators, and an alarming quantum jump
in forced entrepreneurs.”

All this is crucial evidence that Goa is failing to nurture an
economic model where its own citizens benefit, and instead trapping
most young people into underemployment, which Wikipedia describes as
“the underuse of a worker because a job does not use the worker's
skills, is part-time, or leaves the worker idle.” Borde says “in my
opinion this happens when decisions taken are haphazard, and there is
lack of vision or strategic intent in policy makers.”

Borde explained further: “the construction industry needs unskilled
and uneducated labour, and obviously an educated and socially
conscious Goan will not work there. When it comes to casinos, an
educated Goan will not work there either, but there is a gradual
change, as 12th standard or recently graduated kids are seen joining
this because of the money. but it thwarts the intellectual growth of
Goa as a state. So, what is needed is a strategic vision to help Goa
plan out the type of industries that it needs, and focus on what's
needed to develop them. All policies and planning should revolve
around that. Or else we will come to a state like today, where we wish
to make Goa a tourist capital but the construction industry is
destroying the hills which is actually detrimental for the growth of
tourism.”

I am connected on Facebook to Borde, and have noted palpable anguish
in his recent posts about the Mandovi riverfront. Earlier this week,
he posted pictures of the wholescale destruction heading across the
dunes towards Caranzalem, and asked, “What will happen to Goa? Is
anyone really bothered? This is Miramar getting butchered and abused
under the name of development and beautification. Sad, very sad.”

Via email, he elaborated “as a Ponjekaar I am really upset at
concretisation of Goa, whether it is the widened roads without
planting enough good quality trees, or excess construction at the cost
of butchering hills, the so-called “beautification” of naturally
beautiful beaches, or building of the walkway on the river. It is not
good for Goa. We are killing the natural biodiversity and dangerously
playing with nature.”

Another huge problem in the grotesque concretization is the
abandonment of half-finished “infrastructure” to the utter lawlessness
that 

[Goanet] Injustices under Portuguese proven, yet people dislike when I talk: Goa CM Pramod Sawant

[Bernado Colaco]

 For decades many Hindu rulers after 61 had the chance of developing Concani, 
instead they spent time on promoting Maratistas and Maratism. Even though 
Concani was recognized (many Catholic lives lost) as some kind of schedule 
language, the Hindu rulers wanted the script in Devanagri. Till today the 
murkhstanis lay the problem on the Portuguese and the next day promote S.João 
without having the knowledge of the Saint.

BC
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--PANAJI: CM Pramod Sawant, responding to criticism of his comment that 
all signs of Portuguese rule from Goa should be wiped out, said on Wednesday 
that the injustice done to Goans during the inquisition is well-documented, but 
people feel bad when he speaks about it.???I won?t speak any further or again 
it will be said that I like to rake up the past.? And it is my habit to look 
towards the future,? said the CM, speaking at the inauguration of the new space 
allotted to Goa Konkani Akademi in Panaji.
    On Saturday, June 24, 2023 at 04:10:37 PM EDT, Roland Francis 
 wrote:  
 
 Am I supposed to laugh, cry or cuss (curse)?

Roland


  

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[Goanet] Fwd: Goa CM's Rs 32.68-Crore Advertising Largesse Ensures He’s in Firm Control of Media

[Lionel Messias]

-- Forwarded message -
From: Pushpa Iyengar 
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 9:05 AM
Subject: Goa CM's Rs 32.68-Crore Advertising Largesse Ensures He’s in Firm
Control of Media
To: Pushpa Iyengar , Lionel Messias <
lionroars@gmail.com>





https://thewire.in/media/pramod-sawant-goa-media-advertisement-spending-crores
Goa CM's Rs 32.68-Crore Advertising Largesse Ensures He’s in Firm Control
of Media

Pramod Sawant's bloated budget has helped sugar-coat media coverage around
his person and leadership. Recently, the Goa edition of Lokmat ran over 14
pages of his birthday ads
[image: Goa CM's Rs 32.68-Crore Advertising Largesse Ensures He’s in Firm
Control of Media]

Pramod Sawant. Photo: Twitter/@DrPramodPSawant
[image: Devika Sequeira]
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22/MAY/2023

Panjim: Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant turned 50 on April 24. The
personal milestone fetched him “special” interviews in almost all the local
newspapers with some exceptions.


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In the English daily *O Heraldo*, Sawant’s birthday interview made it to
the top of page one, as it did in the Marathi newspaper *Navprabha*.

Preceded by full-page ads that glorified him to almost cult status à la
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the chief minister’s golden anniversary
interview found space on page three in the *Navhind Times* and *Lokmat.*

The Goa edition of *Lokmat *scored over 14 pages of Sawant’s birthday ads –
there were six full-pagers in *Pudhari* – gushing in fawning admiration for
the once backbencher BJP MLA

who
has quickly picked up the art of self-projection and media management.

Goa’s print media were not the only ones obsequiously falling in line to
cover the non-news event of a politician’s birthday. Homegrown digital
players, most of which exist only on social media, went a step further to
provide live feed of Sawant cutting his birthday cake at his home in
Sanquelim.

The “enterprising” *Goa News Hub* even managed an “exclusive” interview
with the chief minister’s father, Pandurang Sawant who welled up over his
son’s childhood and his unlikely climb to the top after the former defence
minister Manohar Parrikar’s death in March of 2019.

Till last year, *O Heraldo* which claims to be “the largest selling English
daily” in Goa, had hitched its media group to almost exclusively promote
Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress party in the state’s February 2022
legislative assembly election

.

When that partnership sank with the TMC’s zero score in the Goa election,
the newspaper did not hold back its punches. With stinging and
editorialised reporting it blamed TMC for not holding its end of the
bargain and for “forcing” Luizinho Faleiro to give up his Rajya Sabha seat.
Faleiro who had moved from the Congress to TMC in September 2021 with an
eye on the Goa February 2022 election was elected to the Rajya Sabha in
November 2021 from a seat vacated by a TMC MP.

Goa’s print and broadcast media have a long-standing reputation for
peddling  promotional content as “news” with little compunction,
particularly during elections. The regional media’s notoriety as purveyors
of “paid news” has found a smart investor in the chief minister who is
proving to be far more hard-nosed and wily than his critics had given him
credit for.

While the Union government has cut down drastically on its media
advertising expenditure

in
the last few years, with most legacy media brought to heel, Sawant has
given himself a bloated budget to sugar-coat media coverage around his
person and leadership.

Between April 2020 to February of this year, the Goa government spent over
Rs 32.68 crore on advertisements to media organisations big and small,
according to documents tabled in the state’s legislative assembly on March
27, 2023.

In response to a question from Aam Aadmi Party MLA Venzy Viegas, Sawant
said no agency had been appointed to “publicise” government schemes, but
this was being done directly through government ads released by the state’s
department of information and publicity (DIP), which of course is one of
the chief minister’s portfolios.