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COMMUNITY NEWS

Goans Living Abroad. Obtaining Portuguese citizenship may be a lot easier than you think. Basically you may qualify if a Parent or either Grandparent was born in Goa or the former Portuguese possessions in India prior to 18 Dec 1961. Check details at http://www.geocities.com/paulocd/PortNatLaw.htm Follow-up cases in Portugal by a senior retired consular official in Lisbon. For initial information write to dollarman64@hotmail.com (London).

Keith Vaz knows more about hot water than most, but complains that his efforts to cook his favourite Goan fish curries are blighted. "I always end up burning the rice," he says. Peterborough in The Daily Telegraph, 15 Oct.

Melanie Blatt, the ex-All Saints singer, a regular at London Fashion Week said, "Yes, Warren Noronha. I liked his collection. It was so abstract." The Daily Telegraph 16 Oct.

DEATHS

9 Oct. Mapusa. JMJ DE LOURDES DA COSTA (Ex-Nairobi). Husband of Grace. Father of Ivano, Mario and Mary-Anne.

12 Oct. CAETANO ANTONIO - DE SILVEIRA - ( Mapusa - Ex-Nairobi).Husband of Ezilda. Father of Alvito/Nancy (USA) and Bonita /late John. Photograph at: http://www.oherald.com/Obituries/oct-obiturie.htm

16 Oct. Chinchinim: ANTONIO FRANCISCO FERNANDES. Husband of late Sebastian. Brother of Esperance and Rosa. Uncle of Natalina/Jovito (UK).

LOOKING FOR

Asuntha Pilendirim would like to trace Vicky Lobo formerly of Kampala and London who emigrated to Australia about 10 yrs ago. She is the sister of Hedridge Lobo who emigrated to Australia about 16 yrs ago and brother of Aloo who lived in Kampala and worked for Ugandan Airways. Please e-mail -asuntha@hotmail.com or carvalho@onetel.net.uk

FLIGHT CORNER

Dep. Gatwick 17, 23 or 24 Nov. 2 weeks. £299 inc. flight and 2-star accom. (room only). Saldanha Holidays. 020 8686 5888. SALDANHAGOA@aol.com

Last Stop has Gatwick/Goa. Dep. 6 Dec 2w Flight only £229. tel:0870 055 0310 quote ref. Travelfind

13 Oct. Bristol Evening Post. If you want to escape the forthcoming winter gloom how about visiting the tropical paradise of Goa - from just £249? The Last Stop Holiday Shop is offering one week dep. Nov. 8 from Gatwick. Tel 0870 0556313 or visit www.laststop.co.uk

13 Oct. Bath Chronicle. Avion Tours (020 8455 5070) offers 14 nights' B&B in Dona Paula for £439. exGatwick, on Nov. 3.

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

Goa is to host meeting against sexual exploitation of kids.
http://www.navhindtimes.com/cgi-bin/daily/stories.pl?id=goa&item=13goa_6

94 foreigners staying in Goa illegally, say police. Among them were 18 Britons and 18 Portuguese. http://www.navhindtimes.com/cgi-bin/daily/stories.pl?id=goa&item=13goa_11

The Goa Police have introduced two more Police Control Room (PCR) vans in the tourist belt of Calangute and Anjuna, to render quick assistance to the public in need.

Goa Today, Oct. 2001 issue is at www.goacom.com/goatoday/ One highlight: Loafing around in Europe by George Menezes.

Cipla, a drug manufacturing company is to set us a new unit in Verna, Goa mainly to service booming exports. It will meet the standards of major international authorities like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other agencies in the United Kingdom and South Africa. The company is a large producer of the drug ciprofloxacin, which is also used to treat anthrax. Reuters 13 Oct.

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

13 Oct. The Express. Article on P & O Cruise ships. " curries prepared by the Goanese chefs are a lunchtime favourite."

13 Oct. The Independent colour supplement devoted 6 pages to some photographs of and an article about Goa. The photographer is Dayanita Singh and there is an exhibition of her photographs of Goa at the Frith Street Gallery, 59-60 Frith Street, London W1 (020-7494 1550) until 2 November. Check out your nearest Library. Quotes: Goa's high-ceilinged rooms of shadowed graciousness, overseen by elegant, houseproud donas … The people are also gentle, hospitable and generous …a phone book full of da Cunhas, da Silvas and Pereiras…When I'm in Goa, I don't feel I'm in India…It has really developed an identity of its own…Goans are far too gentle and polite to make me feel I'm in India…There's a sense of grandeur even in the simplest of homes…tourism is destroying Goa. The hotels pump drinking water into swimming pools, there are garbage problems and it is covered with hoardings … the turnover of local government makes Italy look stable. Text at www.gacom.com/goanet message 18395.
Fred Noronha has written about Dayanita at:
http://www.indiaabroaddaily.com/news-index/women/01photographer.html

*13 Oct. South Wales Echo. Simon Morris, head chef at Grafton Manor, Bromsgrove, provides his recipe for "Sali Goa Chicken Caffrael."

16 Oct. The Guardian. India's tourism hurt by strikes on Afghanistan. … It's the same story across India from the misty peaks of the Himalayas to the opulent palaces of Rajasthan and the sun-soaked beaches of Goa…"we must rely on domestic tourists, they will provide us with our bread, but we needed the foreign tourists for our butter." http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-1242242,00.html

16 Oct. Times of India. Goa's beaches denuded as charters get hit.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=37848266

18 Oct. Business Wire. Paul McCartney is in New York in the fund-raising event to benefit the victims of the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. The concert is set to air live on VH1 on Sat., Oct. 20. Fans also can go to http://www.paulmccartney.com on Thursday, Oct. 18 and Friday, Oct. 19 for an opportunity to chat with McCartney. He will be logging on periodically throughout the day and chatting with fans from around the world. …This Internet special also offers fans an opportunity to hear the new song "Lonely Road," which McCartney recorded in a hotel room in Goa. [ He was in Goa in March 2001 - see goanet-uk weekly newsletter. Issue 2001-11 dated Mar. 16, 2001 at www.goacom.com/goanet-uk

22 Oct. India Today. Hospitality Industry: Terror Struck. …London office of Travel Pack, which runs chartered flights to Goa. Sales Director Sam Eliatamby used to receive about 600 bookings a week. After Black Tuesday the bookings are down to 50. "The scenario is so grim that we plan to run only one chartered flight instead of two every week," laments Eliathamby…There are few fresh reservations for chartered flights to Goa, which used to bring in almost 80 per cent of the two lakh foreign tourists to the state every year. The 500-bed Taj Exotica Hotel in Goa has had 70 per cent of the bookings for September and October cancelled…

FORTHCOMING

Now to Nov. 2. Dayanita Singh. Frith Street Gallery, 59-60 Frith Street, London W1 (020-7494 1550). Wed-Fri 10am-6pm. Sat 11am-4pm. Underground: Tottenham Court Road.

20 Oct. YLGS (Young London Goans Social) - 21-40+ Free membership. 1.45pm - 4.00pm Pizza Hut, The Strand, Charing Cross. 6.00pm - late Pub The Shakespeare's Head, Kingsway, Holborn Possibility of a visit to a Jazz club later on. marie.pereira@talk21.com

26 Oct. (Fri.). Halloween Disco at the Goan Community Centre, Keston Road, London N17. Organised by the Youth of the Centre. 6pm-9pm Kids Disco. 9pm - 11pm Youth Disco. £2 admission. Come dressed in Black. Call Sarita 020 8245 4513.

28 Oct. 1.00- 7.30pm. Uganda Reunion. Wandsworth Town Hall, London SW18. Band: Maz & Co. Ticket Prices: Adults - £11.00; Children under 12 - £4.00 (all tickets include a meal and snacks). ALL WELCOME! Contact Christine De Souza 020 8310 2332 for tickets.

3 Nov. Goan Association UK. Mass for Deceased Members. ATC Hall, South Wimbledon. Followed by 3-course fish meal £6. Bernie Gracias 020-8723 1322, Nina Pinto 020 8767 0663

4 Nov. 12:30pm Nuvem Feast. Whitehart Lane School Hall, Wood Green, N22. Music by Dimension and disco by Nite Lite. Tickets at £7 (includes first drink free!) call Florian Carvalho 0208 452 8362, Johnson Carvalho 0208 303 5822 or e-mail Greg Carvalho greg@god.co.uk

18 Nov. Moira Feast. Woolwich Catholic Club. Myra Mendes 020-8303 3974.

18 Nov. Navelim Feast at Bishop Thomas Grant School. Contacts: Maurilio Mergulhao 01634 389777 Sandra Fernandes - Allen 020 - 8395 5462

25 Nov. 1.30 pm Fr Agnelo's Day. St George's Cathedral, Southwark. Thereafter at Amigo Hall. Please be in your seats by 1.15pm