Do forward the newsletter to your friends. NOTE: There will be no publication on 3rd and 10th Sept. as I shall be away on holiday.

FORTHCOMING

13 Aug.12:00 Streatham. Funeral of William Cleto Menezes. Juliette De Menezes 0181-765 0258

16 Aug. Coach trip to Legoland, Windsor. SE Goans. Lloyd D'Souza 0181-301 5242.

21 Aug. 10:00 - 16:00. Fun Day for children and young people. Endenvale Playspace, Woodland Way, Mitcham. The Goan Musical Society will be there. Sabitri 0181-648 0084

21 Aug Chorao Social. Southfields, SW 19. Claver D'Mello. 0181-767 3786

28-30 Aug. Zee TV Asia Live. Wembley Conference Centre. Fashion, Music, Food & Culture. 0181-795 9548

29 Aug. 11:15- Goan Association. Sports Day. White Hart Lane School. N 22. Peter Rodrigues 0181-399 4883

30 Aug. 11:30 Teenagers & Singles picnic at the Boating Lake, Hyde Park. Meet at the Dell Restaurant. No booking! No charge! Bring food and soft drinks. Raymond Lobo 0181-654 0268

IN THE NEWS
(e-mail eddie@fernandes.u-net.com for the full text of items marked *) .

*Politiken - Denmark, 5 Aug. Star Tours of Denmark has discontinued offering holidays to Goa

*Guardian 6 Aug. As the Vatican puts Mother Teresa on the fast track to sainthood, one author relishes the role of devil's advocate.

* Herald (Goa) 7 Aug. Goa government has offered tax-breaks and incentives to the computer software sector.

*New Zealand Herald 9 Aug. 60-year-old Eoghan McBride is being held in a Wellington jail pending an extradition hearing on charges of running a child-sex ring out of a Goa orphanage. McBride has twice been convicted in New Zealand for sex offences against boys. This item also featured on 9 Aug in: The Dominion New Zealand; The Evening Post New Zealand and Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

BBC News 10 Aug. Holidaymakers take health risks. Modern travellers are far more likely to travel to unknown destinations such as Goa …

Kuwait Times 11 Aug. Indian Independence Day celebrations on 15Aug. will include folk dances performed by Goa Cultural Association

Apologies: The Sunday Telegraph 8 Aug. did not carry the Stewart case. It MAY appear in the Telegraph 14 Aug.

Br.Tony Pinto will be ordained at the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians, Nairobi on Saturday 14th Aug.
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Damodar Mauzo dymauzo@goa1.dot.net.in is writing a novel themed around the East African Goans.
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Edmund Dias 01249 706111 or e-mail edias@northwilts.gov.uk is looking for "Kari" Upkar Singh Kapoor who taught at Old Kampala Primary and played hockey for Uganda up to 1972.
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Suraj Dave, suraj_dave@hotmail.com currently in Canada, is looking for Bilkiss Chaudry, a former teacher and friends in Sacred Heart High, Mombasa., class of 86-89.

NEWS HEADLINES
( mainly from Joel D'Souza in Goa, courtesy of GOACOM, e-mail: goanow@sancharnet.in )

*On 22 August Saligao panchayat are to pick up non-biodegradable waste, house to house, from the whole village. Saligao Civic and Consumer Cell volunteers are co-ordinating the effort.

*A book, by Dr Pratima Kamat, entitled, Farar Far (Crossfire) Local Resistance to Colonial Hegemony in Goa, 1510-1912, was released in Goa on 9 August.

Power minister Nirmala Sawant has been asked to resign from the Cabinet, to make place from a member of the dissident faction. She has sought the advice of Congress Party hierarchy in Delhi and has refused to do so.

Goa Telecom will shortly introduce a prepaid calling card enabling STD calls to be made from any phone.

Teen magazine of Bombay announces male and female "Inner Beauty Contest" with Goa zone heats. Applications required by end of Aug. Further details from eddie@fernandes.u-net.com

Moira Food Co. has been launched in Verna by US returned Joel D'Souza. Initially chicken products (brand name Nutrichick) will be marketed with fish and vegetables to follow.

Visit Goanet at www.goacom.com/goanet. Some of the highlights:

6635 Re. Call for referendum to decide on Independence for Goa.

6713 Problems faced by Senior Citizens in Goa.

6627 New novel dwells on the rootlessness of Goans

6662 Aires Rodrigues of UK files a Public Interest Litigation petition in the High Court challenging the further stripping of the Chief Secretary's powers by the Goa Chief Minister

6678. Dr William R. da Silva of Germany has produced a Konkani translation of the Bible (Kannada script).

6768 Report on the Edgar Fernandes Memorial Plaque and Portrait.