[Goanet] Re: Electric accidents and Indian quality

2006-03-04 Thread cornel
Cecil Aren't the two electrocution deaths, in quick succession, as reported by Joe, not two too many? Do we need more such deaths to discover the frequency as per your post? Cornel - Original Message - From: "Cecil Pinto" > Cecil: > So it happens regularly? Please let me know the last

[Goanet] Discipline Churchill, cong high command urged

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=030416 Discipline Churchill, cong high command urged NT Staff Reporter Panaji March 3: The spokesperson of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC), Mr Jitendra Deshprabhu today said that he has written a letter to the party high comman

[Goanet] Some More New Konkani VCDs

2006-03-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
Just received these 5 VCDs (another Charted Flight Express Delivery) NACH GOEMKARA Songs & Jokes by Ivor D'Cunhas Rs. 100 With Pter-Roshan, Agostinho, John D'Silva, Anthony San, Francis de Tuen etc. Its Manfa Music Production. HANV TESOCH By Comedian Micheal & Pitush Rs.125 With Selvy,Anju, An

Re: [Goanet] "Anyone" on mummification

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Maybe Santosh, who has not examined St. FX's > >remains, yet continues his cynical insinuations > that > >the remains were preserved in some artificial > manner, > >can show us some evidence that so

[Goanet] AICHEA DISSAK CHINTOP - Marsachi 5vi, 2006!

2006-03-04 Thread domnic fernandes
Girestkai nhoi xevott jivitacho, punn jivitachem ek hathiar. (Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.) Domnic Fernandes Anjuna/Dhahran, KSA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE

[Goanet] THE SIXT NIGHT.

2006-03-04 Thread A. Veronica Fernandes
THE SIXT NIGHT. The Sixt Night – a novel by Silviano C. Barbosa came into my hands thru one of the friends of the author about 5 months back, it was sent to me by the author. Since it is a very interesting book I said I must read it with full attention and hence it took me such a long period

[Goanet] Communal riots: Goa continues to simmer

2006-03-04 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Communal riots: Goa continues to simmer NDTV.com Frankie Fernandes, Yogesh Pawar Saturday, March 4, 2006 (Sanvordem): The communal riots sparked off by the demolition of a mosque in Goa's Sanvordem town two days ago, continued in the area. The controversy relates to a mosque that was illegally bu

[Goanet] Party will decide on whom to face, where: Luizinho

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://oheraldo.in/node/10550 Party will decide on whom to face, where: Luizinho BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, MARCH 3 - While MP Churchill Alemao says in private that he would cross swords against Industries Minister, Luizinho Faleiro from Navelim in the coming polls, the Navelim MLA has preferred

[Goanet] Cops plan to augment dog squad

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://oheraldo.in/node/10556 Cops plan to augment dog squad BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, MARCH 3 - The Police Department said it has felt the need to augment its Dog Squad looking at the rising number of thefts and other crimes in the State. It has already bought one Labrador pup and is planning t

[Goanet] ‘Exit Princess’starts afresh

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://oheraldo.in/node/10536 'Exit Princess'starts afresh BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, MARCH 3 — A fresh exercise for removal of grounded M V River Princess has commenced with the government proposing to constitute an expert panel to examine new bids received for the same. The expert panel will be

[Goanet] Goa's Killer Roads

2006-03-04 Thread Valmiki Faleiro
== ALL 'n' SUNDRY By Valmiki Faleiro == Goa's Killer Roads 24-year Kashinath Naik, of Sancoale, killed (his motorcycle collides with an Army truck at Bambolim.) 60-year Fr. Joao Vicente Gonsalves, Parish Priest of Nagoa-Arpora, killed (a van rams into his motorcycle at

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-04 Thread Bernado Colaco
Isn't it fair to stop lotta culture to which you belong to coming to Goa? Are you greeting the latinos at the Mexico/US border? BC > However, I'll make you a deal. We will return the > US > to the native Americans right after you Indian > immigrants return the UK to the Brits. It is time >

[Goanet] RE-INCARNATION OF AN OLD AIRPORT!

2006-03-04 Thread Philip Thomas
http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1016131 State plans to revive Juhu aerodrome Renni Abraham Saturday, March 04, 2006 00:50 IST MUMBAI: Mumbai's first airport, the near derelict Juhu aerodrome, may get a facelift soon if a state government proposal to reopen it for civil aviation flights (4

Re: [Goanet] RE: Churchil has hidden agenda, accuses Faleiro

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
RESPONSE: All those, including Luizinho Faleiro, should categorically state that they have no vested interest in having Mopa built! -- TUMCHER AXIRVAD ASSUM; DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England

[Goanet] Goa to continue ban on import of chicken

2006-03-04 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Goa to continue ban on import of chicken 04 Mar 2006 - PTI Panaji: Goa government has decided to continue its ban on import of birds from the neighbouring states for a few more days, a top state government official said today. "Samples taken by the Directorate of Animal Husbandry from various pou

Re: [Goanet] Don't be alarmed

2006-03-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Gabriel de Figueiredo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry Dr. Helekar, but life for the atheists, it > appears to me, from reading the above, is pathetic - > just a piece of flesh, meant only for procreation > "to pass on the genes", nil else. A sure recipe for > suicide should one be unable

[Goanet] Writers contribute richly towards social transformation: Jamir

2006-03-04 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Writers contribute richly towards social transformation: Jamir NT Staff Reporter Panaji March 3: The Governor, Mr S C Jamir, today said that a writer is not only a magician of words but a visionary who actively contributes to the society. Mr Jamir, who earlier released Spice & Sugar, a collecti

[Goanet] Churchill wants Luizinho expelled

2006-03-04 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Churchill wants Luizinho expelled BY HERALD REPORTER MARGAO, MARCH 3 - MP Churchill Alemao on Friday demanded the immediate expulsion of Industries Minister, Luizinho Faleiro for anti-party activities for toeing the line of BJP leader Manohar Parrikar on the airport issue. Holding the Navelim MLA

Re: [Goanet] Goan Catholics denied access to celebrate feasts

2006-03-04 Thread Bernado Colaco
> > Goan Catholics denied access to celebrate feasts > > > Panaji (ICNS) -- Goa's Member of Parliament in Upper > House Shantaram > Naik Isn't this the traitor who sold the island for a dime? BC ___ To help you stay

Re: [Goanet] Don't be alarmed

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Santosh Helekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Don't be alarmed, but the fact is you are getting > old. > You are hurtling towards the end of your life. At > that > point the show is over. The lights are out. The > darkness is out. Don't expect any kind of an > afterlife, a rebirth or a reincarn

Re: [Goanet] Re: Goa for Goans

2006-03-04 Thread floriano
Dear Mario, Frankly speaking, I had a very good and hearty laugh ( which BTW I have not had in a long time) over this excellent response of yours. Indeed YES!! Migrants they are. And those who are on ground zero (most) need to have their heads examined. If they are not sucking up to some nation

Re: [Goanet] Moral compass chauvinism

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Santosh, I think the verbal writhing and squirming around and futile attempts at obfuscation are coming from you in yet another attempt at seeing ghosts that don't exist and then tilting against them. Your claims of denigration and chauvinism are plainly bogus. > You don't seem to get it. If one

Re: [Goanet] Dubya goes to India (II)

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Peter D'Souza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I may be wrong. Bush might be more popular > than I'd thought. > > According to an AC Nielsen poll published in Outlook > India, Bush is > regarded as a friend of India: > http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060306&fname=Cover+Story

[Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-04 Thread Gilbert Lawrence
Hi Savika, I have not seen your posts before on any other thread. Your initial post received the usual "hammer and nail" response. I hope you get my zest. From your recent response, you have weathered the hammers; and the head of the nail refuses to budge. So I guess, you are committed and s

Re: [Goanet] Re: Gabriel on ins kadamba 2

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Bernardo, First of all, my grandfather changed the spelling of our name to Goveia. We're named after a village in Portugal. Don't ask me why. I'm glad you think it is a beautiful name. I was born with it, so I'm stuck with it. I have no intention of changing it, like some of my relatives have

Re: [Goanet] Re: Very well said ....Mario Goveia...re: Portuguese Passports

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- jose colaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Like the Stainless Steel statue said to his spitting > image in the mirror: " > Hey, this RUST in the Rust Belt, is making you > Golden Brown on the outside, > even though you actually are peerless, silver White > inside" > > And the spitting

[Goanet] Corporation, Chaka Chak & Chicken

2006-03-04 Thread Cecil Pinto
Corporation, Chaka Chak & Chicken Confidence building measures to commence in Panjim By Cecil Pinto I don't know what it is about the bird flu that seems to bring out the humour in us. When the tsunami struck, or some earthquake, or similar, there was always a sense of shock and expressions of

[Goanet] *** GOA NEWS: Mar 04/06 - Chicken ban, DKA, Discipline Churchill, Ultimatum to Luizinho, Communal clashes, Mancurad...

2006-03-04 Thread Goanet News Service
*** GOA NEWS: Mar 04/06 - Chicken ban, DKA, Discipline Churchill, Ultimatum to Luizinho, Communal clashes, Mancurad... *** Goa to continue ban on import of chicken Goa government has decided to continue its ban on import of birds from the neighbouring states. More at: http://www.newkerala.c

[Goanet] Re: churchill and Navy

2006-03-04 Thread gilbert menezes
Dear Mr.de Figueiredo, I really find it difficult to comprehend your posts about modern Goa, especially this one. Could it be because you spent your early years here during the portuguese dictat, where people were intimidated by the powers above? For the life of me, I cannot understand , how our p

Re: [Goanet] "Anyone" on mummification

2006-03-04 Thread Santosh Helekar
--- Mario Goveia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Maybe Santosh, who has not examined St. FX's >remains, yet continues his cynical insinuations that >the remains were preserved in some artificial manner, >can show us some evidence that someone has asked for >permission to examine St. FX's remains and

[Goanet] AIRPORT ROW IN NATIONAL NEWS

2006-03-04 Thread Philip Thomas
Yesterday's TOI had a report titled "Row in Goa over two airports". It is unsatisfactory on a couple of counts. First it attributes the Mopa project to the "erstwhile BJP government at the Centre when the party was in power in Goa as well". The former may be true but what about the latter? When th

[Goanet] Five hurt as communal riots break out in Goa

2006-03-04 Thread D'Souza, Avelino
Five hurt as communal riots break out in Goa Indian Catholic March 4, 2006 By Bosco de Sousa Eremita Panaji (ICNS) -- For the first time, communal riots broke out in Goa after Muslim and Hindu groups clashed at Curchorem, 45 kilometers south of here, injuring at least five

[Goanet] Invitation for International Women's Day Programme

2006-03-04 Thread Albertina Almeida
Greetings from all of us in Bailancho Saad! This International Women's Day, we invite you once again to join us in celebrating the hope in our struggles. We have been taking our own steps, charting our own paths, we have created our own spaces..we need to retain our hard-won spaces, and yet we ha

[Goanet] RE: 'Goa, Kargil operations matter of coincidence'

2006-03-04 Thread Philip Thomas
Perhaps it is due to the influence of Bollywood where it is somewhat commonplace to have films of the same title! If this is so then it is a sign of a lack of creativity ("military intelligence"?) or weak organisational memory.

[Goanet] Text of Shantaram Naik's motion in the Rajya Sabha

2006-03-04 Thread Goanet News Service
REQUEST TO GRANT PERMISSION TO CELEBRATE FEASTS AT ANJEDIVA ISLAND IN GOA SHRI SHANTARAM LAXMAN NAIK (GOA): Sir, there is an island, which is a part of the State of Goa, situated in the village Anjediva Island, Canacona Taluka, comprising an area of 34,0075, sq. meters, surveyed under number 1,

[Goanet] Mickky promises ZAO for Mormugao

2006-03-04 Thread Miguel Braganza
Mickky promises ZAO for Mormugao Agriculture Minister Francisco Pacheco inaugurated the 'Green Mormugao' Plant Exhibition at the Municipal Garden, Vasco, in the presence of Rajendra Arlekar, MLA; Simon D'Souza, former MLA; Dr.H.Y.Karapurkar, Chairman of Goa State Biodiversity Board and El

[Goanet] Caption Contest:

2006-03-04 Thread JoeGoaUk
how about... GOAN CARNAVAL IN SWINDON (UK). Caption Contest Wed Mar 1 08:04:54 PST 2006 Please check out the Carnival Parades photo at: http://www.goa-world.com/goa/carnival06/p1020068.jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yah

[Goanet] Homeschooling in Goa

2006-03-04 Thread Peter D'Souza
A couple of years ago there was a discussion on homeschooling on this list. At the time I received a couple of off-list e-mails about it, including one from a lady who was considering homeschooling her kids in Goa. I was wondering about how much things have changed. The movement is growing rapi

[Goanet] Goa: Travco Holidays Wins Highest Productive Firm Award

2006-03-04 Thread Gabe Menezes
http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=19155&n_tit=Goa%3A+Travco+Holidays+Wins+Highest+Productive+Firm+Award Goa: Travco Holidays Wins Highest Productive Firm Award from Daijiworld's special correspondent Panaji, Mar 3:Travco Holidays Pvt. Ltd., Margao has been awarded as one of the

Re: [Goanet] Re: Goa for Goans

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Floriano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Vote banks: > I was talking of migrant vote-banks to come to > power. Goans no longer > decide for Goa. Migrants do. > Mario observes: > Floriano, as you must have noticed, the most ardent proponents of "Goa for Goans", at least on Goanet, do not ha

Re: [Goanet] Portuguese Passports

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
--- Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote: > > I'd rather be a coconut - it makes for wonderful > curries. Unfortunately for you, you appear not to > have lived and experienced the friendship of the > Portuguese society, nor their ambience. You can be > any another other fruit or nut that wish. I have no

Re: [Goanet] GOA FOR GOANS!

2006-03-04 Thread Mario Goveia
Bernardo, My facts are far straighter than your facts, about Goa and anything connected with your curious "Goa for Goans" campaign while living safely in the UK. > The fact that you still do not know that Goa was a colony of a third rate European country and was liberated in 1961, 14 years after th

[Goanet] ALERT:Socorro resident opposes IT Park, pays a heavy price

2006-03-04 Thread goadesc
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[Goanet] FROM GOA: Goanet News Bytes * Mar 4, 2006 * Communal tension stoked up in twin towns of Sanvordem-Curchorem...

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