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COMMUNITY NEWS

Patricia Rozario is one the six finalists for the Asian Women of Achievement Award. Excerpts: .The overall winner will be announced this (16 May) evening.She lives in Willesden Green, North London, with her husband, pianist Mark Troop. They have two children, Olivia, 20, and George, seven. She says "I was awarded an OBE in 2001 but perhaps my greatest achievement is being told by young Asian women who have come to watch me perform that I inspire them to take up a career in music." From The Express, 16 May.

Melissa De Souza: A Happy 18th Birthday on 20th May 2002.With lots of hugs and kisses from Mum Matilda, Dad Abel, Sister Melanie, Nan Lizy and pet dog Tiger.

The Goan Community Centre whist drive announced in the last issue for 26 May has had to be cancelled. The G.O.A. Anniversary Ball (1 Jun.) has also been cancelled.

This week the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh visited Belfast and toured the Omagh bomb site. Among the people she was introduced to was surgeon Dominic Pinto, current Sheriff for Tyrone, who treated many of the bomb victims. Report in the Belfast Telegraph May 15.

DEATHS

6 May. Toronto. ZULEMA SEQUEIRA (ex-Machakos, Kenya). Wife of the late Jasso. Mother of May and Ian Hamilton, Reynah and Jacinto Pereira. Grandmother of Maria and Nolan, Franca and Errol, Nicole and Joseph, Sara and Stephen. Great-grandmother of Mikaela, Nicholas, Declan and Emma. Sister of Isabel Pegado. Donations may be made to the Alzheimer Society, 2323 Yonge Street, Suite 500, Toronto, M4P 2C9.

8 May Welling, Kent (UK). LOURDES DIAS (nee D'Souza, ex-Nairobi). Wife of Jovito. Mother of Jeffrey and Anna. Funeral on 17 May 2pm St Stephen's Church, Deepdene Road, Welling, then Sidcup Crematorium (3.30pm) and Church Parish Hall. No flowers - donations on the day to the British Diabetic Association. Condolence messages to jovitodias@onetel.net.uk

8 May: Canada/Ex-Karachi/Chinchinim: JOSE CAMILO VAZ (JOE), husband of Hilda Lopes, father of Otilia/John, Ronny/Jeanette, Ian/Sonia, Maria Goretti/Gabriel, Savio/Gilian and Charles.

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NEWS HEADLINES

Goan writer Pundalik Naik recently spent two months as writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. He talks about his experience at
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=051129

While addressing a dinner hosted by him at Goa Marriott Resort, Heimo Richter, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, was full of praise for the unique cultural and touristic ambience prevailing in Goa. Europe itself represented a synthesis of diverse cultures. Such traditions need to be preserved, he added.

May 30 Goa Assembly Elections News: Deputy Chief Minister Ravi Naik resigned from the BJP Party and is standing for Congress in the Ponda constituency. However, Union Minister fir Shipping, Shripad Naik, has resigned his post and is standing for the Ponda seat. The suggestion for the Congress and NCP Parties to come together to oppose the BJP by sharing seats, failed to materialise. 304 nomination papers were received for the 40 seats. The list of candidates for the main parties is at: http://www.goanews.com/candidate02.htm

IN THE NEWS

7 May Khaleej Times (Dubai) 7 May. Headline: Goa beckons Arab tourists with monsoon packages. Excerpts: Nearly 20,000 Arabs, including UAE nationals, visited Goa last year .Goa is not a place, but a way of life. Goa has opened its doors to NRIs for investments as well.A Canada-based NRI has recently approached us to set up a Sentosa Island-style facility in Goa. 597 words. Full text at: http://www.khaleejtimes.co.ae/ktarchive/070502/uae.htm#story6

8 May Agência Lusa (Portuguese). Headline: Goa - Igreja católica apela para rejeição de candidatos fundamentalistas hindus. 302 words

10 May. Derby Evening Telegraph. A cricket team of fifteen boys from Repton School, are to travel to Goa in December to play six matches.

10 May. Gulf News. NRIs from the UAE, Switzerland and the U.S. are joining hands to set up a Rs30.5 million health resort in Kerala to promote world class 'health tourism'. By Stanley Carvalho. Text at: http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=50537

10 May. Daily Echo. Indian all-rounder Raj Naik has returned from Goa for another season with Winchester Cricket Club.

10 May. Herald (Goa). Frederick Noronha interviews Chrystal Gomes, MS victim and comedian http://www.oherald.com/Insight/Insight2.htm She is the daughter of Danny Gomes, past President of the Dar Inst. and G.O.A. Toronto. For photograph, click here....

10 May Canadian NewsWire. Headline: Teen Science Projects Show Promise. Excerpts: .Crystal Pinto, an OAC student at Francis Libermann Catholic High School in Toronto, has won the $5,000 first prize in this year's Aventis Biotech Challenge (ABC).the ABC Intermediate competition for Grade 9 and 10 students was won by Kory Benvenuto-Whitman, Rohit Barreto, Sara Dolcetti and Priscilla Mendonca of St. Elizabeth Catholic High School for their project on reducing micro-organisms commonly found in hamburger meat. 1011 words. http://www.newswire.ca/releases/May2002/10/c4263.html

11 May. Montreal Gazette. By Mark Stachiew. "A few years back I was in Goa and started hanging out with some backpackers who had been in India for more than a year. They'd spent the entire time in Goa, mostly because of the cheap drugs. The local "chemists" are open around the clock and you can buy just about anything without a prescription. They all told me about how they were going to explore India, but ended up never leaving Goa. They knew that they were wasting their time, but none had the will to leave."

11 May. Toronto Star. Xacutti, a new Toronto restaurant. Excerpt: Xacutti (pronounced sha-KOO-tee) is what finally boosts Toronto to the pantheon of hip ethnic dining, alongside New York and London. The co-owners are Brad Moore and Lesle Gibson. 872 words click here....

11 May. Liverpool Echo "We have seen a big increase in holidays to Goa over the last few years," says Lynn Brown, a Sales Consultant at Portia World Travel in Liverpool. "Everybody who comes back talks about the fantastic beaches and the fact that they just can't spend their money because it is so cheap."

11 May. Hindustan Times. Indian flavours for Britain, this time it's free mangoes. http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/110502/dlfor23.asp

11 May. Financial Times. Robin Lane Fox visits the Castello garden in Florence and finds scented white jasmine growing indoors. He writes. "the jasmine, I now learn, was not the ordinary hardy white variety. It was Jasminum Sambac, the supreme scented variety from Goa. It is still the absolute winner, although most of us grow less good varieties indoors today."

11 May. Times of India. Headline: Goa in the throes of major water crisis. 947 words. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_Id=9499144

12 May. Deccan Herald. Headline: Behind the sun & sand: Goa is much more than sea, sand and spirits. The place has an identity of its own, jealously guarded by its people, writes Viswas D Paul Karra. 943 words. Full text at: http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may12/sh6.htm

12 May. The Observer.Waitrose has been selling a Goan dish called Xacutti for about three years. You might have found this in one of the very few restaurants specialising in Goan food (such as Cyrus Todiwala's Cafe Spice Namaste at Aldgate East and Battersea) but never in your local curry house. Vivek Singh the Cinnamon Club chef says. 'A Rajasthani dish with coriander grown in Kenya somehow doesn't taste the same.' http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4409283,00.html

12 May. San Francisco Chronicle.During the Gulf War a decade ago, Iraq might have found it easier to have won acceptance for its view of the invasion of Kuwait as a post-colonial vindication, analogous to India's capture of Goa. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/05/12/IN.DTL

12 May. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution An Epicure's Tour Of India by Linda Bladholm. Excerpts: .food has a spiced-up Latin influence and strings of fat chorizo like sausages dry like laundry on clotheslines. Fresh seafood is plentiful, as a visit to the Friday market in Mapusa attests.I hooked up with Premila Fernandez, a cooking teacher who took me to the 300-year-old family estate of Mario Miranda (a famous cartoonist) and his wife, Habiba. We made lunch in the cavernous kitchen, stuffing pomfret with a red masala mixture based on lots of chiles, then pan-fried them. 2528 words. http://www.accessatlanta.com/ajc/travel/content/0512india.html

13 May. The Herald (Glasgow) Sitar virtuoso Manab Das, lecturer at Goa University, will be performing at Ardross Hall, on Friday at 8pm. Tickets are £5. Also, from Aberdeen Press & Journal, 9 May: Manab Das, currently a lecturer at Goa University is to take part in a unique mix of Eastern and Western music "Sitar and Sax." Das recently visited Germany for a special recording and performance project.

14 May Indian Express. Mother Teresa is likely to be beatified this year. "the fact that local Archbishop Henry d'Souza had a prayer for exorcism for Mother during her illness in 1996 would not hinder the beatification. "When there is evidence that someone is being attacked by the devil, it indicates that the person has a special holiness." http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=10297

15 May. Stuttgarter Zeitung. Die Polizei engagiert sich schon im Vorfeld der Goa-Party Goa-Trance. 716 Words, (German). http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz/page/detail.php/169913?_suchtag=aktiv

15 May. Gulf News. Candolim Strikers emerge winners. Candolim Strikers clinched the inaugural Goan Inter-Village football tournament title, organised by Gulf International Promotions over the week-end. 389 words. http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=51108

15 May. St. Petersburg Times. Goa-born Floyd Cardoz, who pioneered the combination of upscale modern cooking with Indian flavors at Tabla in New York, took one of the most familiar spices, black pepper, and used it to perfume shrimp that were set off by a watermelon salad.

16 May. New Vision (Kampala). South African Breweries entered the Goa market last week, with Castle Lager beer. ...

16 May. Economic Times. Goan distillery to patent feni, tap potential. Madame Rosa Distillery has already started exporting it to Abu Dhabi and Qatar. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_ID=10000887

GOANET

21123 Fred Noronha: Why Goa won't get the Government it deserves 21166 BJP faces humiliation in Goa Aires Rodrigues 21190 Goa -- Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Reflections of a Goan in Exile. By Brian Mendonca. Text of a paper was presented at the seminar on 'Goa Today and Tomorrow - Sociocultural Changes' Delhi, May 4, 2002. To subscribe to GoaNet (it's free), write to eddie@fernandes.u-net.com

FORTHCOMING

Sat. 25 May. 4.00 pm. Novena Mass for the Beatification of Ven Fr Agnelo De Souza at St Andrews Shared Church, Elmshott lane, Slough. Contact Millie Fernandez on 01753 576908. All welcome.

Sun. 26th May 1.30pm - The Asian Chaplaincy invites everyone to join in celebrating its 17th Annual Festival of Our Patron Saints Multicultural Mass at St. Augustine's Catholic Church, 55 Fulham Palace Road, Hammersmith, with an entertainment programme afterwards. Snacks and food on sale. Information from Fr. Oliver Antao 0208-563-9102.

Fri 31 May 5.30pm - late. YLGS (Young London Goans Social - free membership for 21 to 40+ ) Langley Bar & Restaurant, 5 Langley Street, Covent Garden WC2H 9JA email dsouzajj@hotmail.com or marie.pereira@talk21.com

Sat. 1 Jun. G.O.A. Anniversary Ball - Contact: Juliette de Menezes 020 - 8765 0258.

Sun. 2 Jun. 3 pm. Leicester: YMCA Theatre, 7 East Street. The Goan Cultural Society UK proudly presents Alfonso Bros, Konkani play, "CHUKH" written and directed by Mike Alfonso. For booking and further information please contact: Charlie D'Souza 2125829, Francis Ferrao 2354732,Ivonia 2201845 & Lionel Baptista 2124921. See: http://www.goanculturalsociety.com

Mon. 3rd Jun. 7pm to 12.30a.m - HELP A POOR CHILD proudly presents a Queen's 50th Jubilee Special, at Greenford Hall, Ruislip Road, Greenford Broadway. Music by Dark Star and Say-one-Do-one For tickets and details call Derrick Pereira 020-8952 8899 or Bernie Gracias 020-8723 1322 or email HAPC2000@aol.com

Sun 16 Jun. SIOLIM UNION Feast Contact: Loretta Fernandes 020 - 8696 9889.

Sun 16 Jun. Nairobi Heroes F.C. reunion at Whitehart Lane School, Whitehart Lane, Wood Green, London N22. Mass at 12.30pm followed by social with music by Mellow Tones. Please book your tickets early to avoid disappointment by contacting Eulogio Braganza 020 88889109, Marshal Fernandes 01707 642842, Greg Carvalho 01245 261302 or by e-mail nairobiheroes@hotmail.com

Sun. 16 Jun. 3 pm. S London: Merton Hall, Kingston Road, South Wimbledon, London. By Public demand, now South of the river GCS proudly presents, Alfonso Bros, Konkani play, "CHUKH" written and directed by Mike Alfonso. For booking and further information please contact: Ida (London) 020 8881 2921, Bella (London) 020 8352 0373 or Rosy (London) 020 8352 9450. See: http://www.goanculturalsociety.com