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FORTHCOMING 12 Aug. 19:30- Simba Football Club - 30th Anniversary Gala Dance at White Hart Lane School Hall, Wood Green, London N22. Disco "Dark Star" and "Mellow Tones" band. Call Tina the ChairLady on 0208 803 4652 (evening) or 0208 945 2476 (day) Failing that, Bernie Dias 0208 361 9417 (evenings). 13 Aug. 12:30-20:00. Bastora Union. Feast of St. Cajetan. Mass followed by Social at Merton Hall, 76 Kingston Road, South Wimbledon. Breakthru Band. Caesar D'Souza 020-8550 0615 or Cornelius Monteiro 020-8681 8716. 13 Aug. 17:00-24:00 Justice for Edgar Fernandes Campaign. Fund-raising benefit social + celebration of Edgar's birthday. Red Rose Club, 129 Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park . Kids welcome. £5 waged, £3 unwaged . Contacts: Theo Russell: 020 8356 5230(W); 020 7244 9779 (H); e-mail theorussell@hotmail.com Chris Broadhead: 020 8356 4350 (W); 020 7688 0061. 13 Aug. Newham Goans. Coach trip to Great Yarmouth. Last few places! £8 adult, £4 child. Kelvin De Souza, 0208-470 3227. 16 Aug. 18:30- YLGS (Young London Goans Social - for over 21. Free Membership.) Chinese meal in Restaurant. For details contact: marie.pereira@talk21.com (tel.01689858805/mobile 07958 373076), rfernandes@spss.com (Rosy - tel 0208 9611589),or gavin.fernandes@uk.arthurandersen.com 19 Aug. 16:30 Chorao UK. Feast of St. Bartholomew. Charity Dance. Kelsey Park School, Beckenham, Kent. JD Sessions Band. £8 inc. meal. Tel. Mervyn Ramos 020 8689 2970; Joe Abreo 020 7723 7499 or Claver D'Mello 020 8672 4562 20 Aug. Goa Day. Barnet Multicultural Community Centre, Algernon Road Hendon , London NW4. Details from Rene Barreto, barreto@dircon.co.uk 020 8445 2126, Tony Vaz 020 8343 8974 or Savio Fernandes, savfernandes@hotmail.com 20 Aug. 12:00- (doors open 10:30) Goan Association UK. Annual Sports Day. Dedicated to Goa Day. Archbishop Lanfranc School, Mitcham Road, Croydon. Oscar Fernandes 020-8654 4472 or Peter Rodrigues 020-8399 4883. 25-30 Aug. Asian Chaplaincy. Lourdes Pilgrimage. £275. Derek Gomes. 020-7263 5203 DEREKGOMES@compuserve.com 27 Aug. 12:30- St Teresa's School, Nairobi. Class of '65. Reunion at Whitehart Lane School. £7 including a free drink, snacks and meal Greg Carvalho or 01245 261302, Felix Cardozo 020 8482 3277 or Tony D'Costa 01293 425644. 3 Sept. 12:30- South East Goans - TROOK Tournament The Belfry Social Club, 100 Plumstead High Street, Plumstead, London SE18. Hilary 020 8317 1966 or 020 8854 4547 9 Sept. 12:00- E.A. Customs & Excise Reunion. Church Hall of Our Lady of Assumption, opp. 282 Links Road, Tooting, SW 17. For further details contact Conrad Monteiro 020-8715 4034. 9 Sept. Help A Poor Child. 20 th Anniversary Gala Ball, Harrow Leisure Centre, Christchurch Avenue, Harrow. 10 Sept. 11:00-18:00. Annual Festival of Our Lady of Health Vailankani. Cruise the river Thames on the Princess Royal. Rev. A.T. Moraes 0208-977 5682. 17 Sept. Goan Association (UK) Trook Tournament. ATC Hall South Wimbledon. Jacinto Fernandes 020-8542 5427 or Diego Pinto 020-8767-0663 23 Sept. TIATR, TIATR, TIATR, Londonache famad teatrist ani kantorist fuddem sorleat adum tumchea mucar ek gomoticho ani comicacho tiatr zachem naum “ GUSPOT “. Vo tiatr zatolo, jistuc sanghecha 5 ora, St Monica's Hollant, Green Lanes, Palmers Green. London. For further details please call: Rosy - 020 8352 9450, Ida - 020 8881 2921, Gregg – 020 8907 0545 24 Sept. Mapuca Union Feast. Bishop Thomas Grant School, Beltrees Grove, Streatham, London SW16. COMMUNITY NEWS SINGLE? Live or work in the SOUTH EAST? Would like to socialise informally with other single Goans of SIMILAR AGE? Then please contact Lloyd on southeastgoans.d-souza@virgin.net or Tel: 020 8301 5242. Carlton/LWT covered the Lionel Pinto murder on Wed., 9 Aug and further updates are expected as new evidence comes to light. The Police have sent in an appeal for information from the Community, together with the mugshot of a person they wish to eliminate from their enquiries. This is posted at: http://www.goacom.com/news / news2000/aug/msg00033.html Goans in the Netherlands (GIN), website is at: http://www.bigfoot.com/~gin_holland Goanet-Canada
Newsletter. Issue 2000-7. Aug 7, 2000 is at From Lui Godinho: Fr James Manjackal from India is conducting a healing in the UK as part of his European tour. He will be at: Bounds Green. St Michael's Church Hall. Bounds Green Road, N22. 15-18 Aug. 19:00-22:00 Palmers Green. Provident Convent Hall, Oakthorpe Road, N13. 19 Aug. 10:00-17:00 Aylesford Priory 27 Aug. 10:00-17:00 Forest Gate. St Anthony's Church, St Anthony's Road, E7. 30 Aug. - 1 Sept. 19:00 - 22:00 Chertsey. Corlumean Christi. 22 - 24 Sept. Tel 01932 565747 to reserve your place. DEATHS Correction to last week's entry: Mrs Margaret Paes the mother of DR MALCOLM PAES, is very much alive and well. 29 Jul. Navelim: ESPERANCA (EMILIA) CASTANHA, (Ex-Nairobi) wife of late Conceicao Manuel, mother of Rose/Robert Santiago (UK), John/Valerie (Canada), Francis/Christine (UK). 4 Aug. Divar. AGOSTINHO L.DE MENEZES, (born on 20-02-1901). Husband of late Devodita Silveira e Menezes, Father of Ignatius/ Anne Waugh (UK), Nina/ Philip, late Olivia, late Vivian. 6 Aug. Colva. AGNELO COSTA DIAS, husband of Alice, father of Audy and Arlette, brother of Audifacio/Viola (UK). 8 Aug. Chinchinim: BALTAZAR GOMES (ex-staff of EAR&H, Nairobi), husband of Ophelia, father of Silvano/Dolores, Adela/Elphy. Amery/Yvette, Perty/Alice (Canada), brother of late Eleterio, Albertina, Rozolita and Herculano. LOOKING FOR Edith D'Sa, Hon. General Secretary of the Nairobi Moira Association is eager to contact any ex-Nairobi Moidekars. Please e-mail her at edith@tridentaviation.com Vasco Fernandes, who was at Parklands School/ Dr Ribeiro Goan School, Nairobi, Class of '66, wishes to make contact with his former classmates. Please telephone 01908 661311 or e-mail fernandes@totalise.co.uk NEWS
HEADLINES Margao Municipal Council has decided to allow the construction of a multi-storey car park on build-own-operate-transfer basis. Goa's Chief Minister said he would be visiting Australia in October to "project Goa as an important tourist destination." John Sedah, a Kenyan citizen, has been sentenced to 20 years' rigorous imprisonment in Goa for possessing LSD strips and charas. For
a complete or partial Wedding In Goa Package, check out: The Chief Minister disclosed that he has already received one proposal for a golf course and a racecourse. "We will give the tourists what they want", he says. He also added that nudes on beaches will be punished. http://www.goanews.com/4aug00.htm Visit Goanet at www.goacom.com/goanet. Some of the highlights: 12785 Goan Voice Launch in London on Friday 11th Aug. See: www.GoanVoice.com Milton Rodrigues 12764 Goans in Bombay newsletter and links. Frederick Noronha 12723 Goan Institute, California Newsletter Marlon Menezes 12694 CM Gambles with our Future! Offshore Casinos are coming. Aires Rodrigues 12669 A chat with Mr. Basilio Magno Gaspar Almeida IN
THE NEWS The Aug. 2000 issue of Goa Today is online at http://www.goa-world.net/goatoday/ This special 35 th anniversary issue has feature articles amongst others, by: Ervell Menezes, George Menezes, Chandrakant Keni, Lambert Mascarenhas, Mario Cabral e Sa, Remo Fernandes, Mario Miranda, Wendell Rodrick Frederick Noronha and Alexyz. *1 Aug. The Irish Times. Hinduism feels under threat from Christianity (865 words) 2 Aug. Time Out. Page 40. Eat Out. Café Spice Namaste, 16 Prescot St, London E1 … Chef Cyrus Todiwala made his name at a Taj hotel in Goa … classic Goan dish of vindalho de porco (£12.25) … Goan xit ani suncta chi kodi (£10.25) … *4 Aug. Business Line. Goa may soon go on the 'tourism boycott map' of animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). The focus of the group is to shift from leather exports to stifling tourism to India. (353) words. *5 Aug. Navhind Times The Goa government has plans to go ahead with the off-shore casinos and golf courses as measures to provide additional recreational facilities and generate revenue by tapping high-spending tourists in Goa. (506) words *5 Aug. Times of India. Goa has hundreds of buildings with architectural grandeur, but the regulations governing conservation, paradoxically, provides for demolition of structures. (645 words) *6 Aug. Gomantak Times. The Goa Government has constituted a Committee comprising of 27 members to consider Senior Citizens welfare. The committee is to have regular meetings every three months. (249 words) *7 Aug The Navhind Times. Buy Goa, With The Right Contacts. 904 words *9 Aug. Gomantak Times. The Govt. is threatening hoteliers to participate at London's World Travel Mart claims Congress. *9 Aug. Navhind Times. The French consul general in Mumbai, Mr Yves Charpentier on a visit to Goa said that France could help Goa exploit its tourism potential. 920 words. |
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