[Goanet] beg your pardon

2020-03-29 Thread Nelson Lopes
beg your pardon during demonetisation it was touted as short term pain and long term gain which turned out to be otherwise. The offer to hang by lamp post was abandoned as there were no takers. The effect to this day continues to haunt the economy .we have adjusted to carry on as we are a

[Goanet] A Little Peace

2020-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
Ein Bisschen Frieden was a song sung in 1982 at the The Eurovision Song Contest by Nicole a 17 year old schoolgirl representing Germany. It won by a margin of 62 votes, a record for many years. Ein Bißchen Frieden https://youtu.be/W9S3YMmIFdw Another pleasant version by a female South African

[Goanet] Avoiding Panic

2020-03-29 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas
VM: I am learning a lot from your sensitive articles . I cannot find the article where you wrote that the population of the City of Old Goa was double that of London and Paris put together. Then Old Goa collapsed !!! Was it an outbreak of Malaria. There are many cases of pandemics in history

[Goanet] Elephant Feet

2020-03-29 Thread Mervyn Maciel
Sharing a short article I wrote years ago. Mervyn Maciel *HOW I CAME BY THE 2 ELEPHANT FEET*: During my service with the Provincial Administration in Marsabit in the late 1940’s and 50’s, it was not uncommon to see elephants roaming in the boma late in the evening and especially at night.

[Goanet] Badkani, Bhirankhul dovenç eilam...

2020-03-29 Thread Sonia Gomes
When the Spanish ‘flu ravaged Goa and people were dying in multitudes one brave person a relative of António Guia Furtado and Padre Eufemiano de Jesus Miranda took an extremely radical decision that was unheard of. My tribute to her at this terrible time... My apologies for not knowing her name.

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 15, Issue 142

2020-03-29 Thread Filomena Giese
6. Coronavirus: What this crisis reveals about US - and its       president - BBC News (Roland Francis) With the British Boris Johnson testing positive for coronavirus and advocating a policy of no social distancing, a failed policy based on  the false notion that the people will develop herd

[Goanet] SUPER SPREADER COVID -19

2020-03-29 Thread godfrey gonsalves
On 30th January, 2020 World Health Organisation declared Corona virus COVID 19 as PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY and on 11th March, 2020 as PANDEMIC . The Union Budget session commenced on 31st January 2020 and the General Budget proposals presented on 1st February, 2020 . A recess was in

[Goanet] MISHANDLING OF JANATA CURFEW IN GOA

2020-03-29 Thread Stephen Dias
> MISHANDLING OF JANATA CURFEW IN GOA > > STEPHEN DIAS > DONA PAULA > 9422443110 > > The Am Aadmi government kn Delhi has managed the situation arising out of > the outbreak of Covid-19 very professionally. Elaborate and comprehensive > measures have been taken which defeats the capital of India.

[Goanet] Prisoner In Quepem ....not even a newspaper to read !

2020-03-29 Thread Paul p
Who is this Adolfo? Does he not understand lockdown? Does he not know that is a COVID-19 pandemic raging? Does he not know there are online newspapers? Prisoner in Quepem? Stay at home - you will stay alive to maybe read a newspaper next month.

[Goanet] A Calypso Medley

2020-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
The melodious singalong by the Brothers Four of Seattle, Washington starts with Yellow Bird and includes John B, Marianne and Jamaican Farewell. ’Chicotounne’ was actually a Hawaiian nineteenth century folk song, re-written in English lyrics as Yellow Bird in the twentieth century by a Bergman

[Goanet] The Eruption

2020-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
First recorded by Ann Peebles, and later by Tina Turner, the Eruption were best known for the cover of this song as well as for Neil Sedaka’s ‘One Way Ticket’. The Eruption were a British disco band doing R and Soul in the 1970s and 80s. I Can’t Stand The Rain https://youtu.be/Mpqlpm39nqk One

[Goanet] THE CHAOS IN GOA RAGES WHILE COVID-19 IS GALLOPING

2020-03-29 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Despite Goa being a very tiny State the Government which has totally mishandled and mismanaged its approach in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic seems to be making no amends. After repeated goof ups, the authorities should have ensured that those being given volunteer cards and involved in door

Re: [Goanet] Prisoner In Quepem ....not even a newspaper to read !

2020-03-29 Thread Voznadik vojem
I brought my newspaper today. In my part of the world, I was advised to put the newspaper in the "bhatti" along with "pao" to get rid of the virus. As I sit here basking in the early morning sun, it is just "futti Chau (black tea with no milk and sugar), daily quota of pao and baked newspaper. I

[Goanet] In The Summertime

2020-03-29 Thread Roland Francis
Mungo Jerry was a British rock group named after a T S Eliot poem “Mungojerrie and Rumpleteazer” seeing its best success in the 1970s. The band was fronted by Ray Dorset a composer, guitarist, blue harp and kazoo player. “Summertime” climbed from number 13 to number 1 in just a week on the

[Goanet] Bible verse for the Day

2020-03-29 Thread Devak Argham
John 11 : 25 - 26 = “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?”