COMMUNITY NEWS
Video: Mississauga High School
Rallies To Support Tara Anne D'Souza
For the G.O.A. (Toronto) appeal on her behalf click here. Canada: Xavier Fernandes:
Spotlight offers gifts for Christmas
Xavier Fernandes was born in Karachi and is the coordinator of the Zephyr Art Gallery. For links to more information about him click here. Aires Rodrigues: Health
Minister's appeal dismissed
Aires Rodrigues lived in Toronto and London before returning to Goa. For the Aires supplement click here. Texas: For Laurence D'Souza,
life has had many beginnings
Toronto: Kathleen DeSouza:
Living small can be 'cleansing' 15 Dec: Toronto Star. Kathleen DeSouza’s 341-square-foot condo barely affords enough room to turn around in, never mind entertain. But what DeSouza has lost in size, she figures she has gained in price and location, location, location … DeSouza lives where she works – she is a sales administrator for builder Monarch Corp. at Battery Park. DeSouza, 37, bought her bachelor apartment three years ago for $99,000. "It was the affordability of it," says DeSouza, who estimates that her unit is now worth at least double what she paid … 1411 words. Click here. Goan Businessmen. By Valmiki Faleiro 16 Dec: Herald. … Mervyn Nunes, a Zanzibar-born Goan is today that continent’s best-known Safari operator … Brian and Carmo Lobo own some 3,000 apartments in New York City. Franklin Pereira, of Tivim, made it so big in Mombasa that he owns trains and a fleet of yacht … London-based Elizabeth Pires helped found ‘Investcorp,’ the global investment bank. Another UK Goan woman did well in the world of tourism … Click here. Vince Cable on Olympia Rebelo 16 Dec: The Mail on Sunday (UK). Vince Cable, the acting Lib Dem leader tells how dancing gave him the strength to endure the death of his wife … “Ours had been an unusually strong relationship, partly because it was forged in adversity. Olympia was Goan, from Kenya, and our wedding in 1968 pleased neither her parents nor mine. Olympia's family had hoped for an arranged marriage to someone quite different. My father's anger at having an Asian daughter-in-law seemed to know no bounds …” For photo and full text click here. Australia: Movie making a
tough ride for Rudolph Britto
Dr. Ivan D'Souza loses license
For details of the case against him click here. For the Dr Ivan D’Souza (ex-Kenya) discussion board click here. Cincinnati: Psychiatrist's license at
stake in board hearing 18 Dec: Cincinnati Enquirer, OH. Both sides in a hearing over a Cincinnati psychiatrist's medical license offered vastly different accounts Monday about whether Dr. Leo D'Souza of Clifton inappropriately touched five male patients … The 12-member State Medical Board of Ohio is investigating whether D'Souza should lose his medical license for alleged incidents between 1998 and 2006. 433 words. Click here. Canada, Hamilton, Ont. Agnelo Gomes
opens gourmet kitchen store and offers cooking classes 18 Dec: Hamilton Spectator. Agnelo Gomes opened Kitchen Impressions in the Waterdown Plaza at 255 Dundas St. E., and offers cooking classes ($40 a person).as well as tajines for the current Moroccan barbecue craze and fondue sets for cocooning couples, especially on New Year's Eve … Call 905-690-7586 for information on his classes. Click here. Perth, Aus: Rudy D Cunha: Kiosk
to connect 18 Dec: Wanneroo Times (Aus). Whitford City shoppers can now check their email in between browsing the shops with a kiosk called Internet Only. The shop owner Rudy D Cunha said his business was keen to help seniors in the area understand the internet and its many benefits … Sydney, Aus: Keegan Coelho
Tony Fernandes: Air Asia to Fly to India 20 Dec: Business Times (Malaysia). AirAsia and sister airline AirAsia X will both begin flights from Malaysia to India in late 2008, AirAsia Chief Executive Officer Tony Fernandes said. Click here. Sydney, Aus: Catholic Goans
Celebrate the Festive Season
20 Dec: Indian Link (Aus). By Noel G. de Souza. … For the Goan communities which are dispersed outside Goa, the Christmas season is the time for recreating their nostalgic memories of their old home … For photographs and full text click here. DEATHS A Tribute to the late Albert Castanha
20 Dec: Nairobi, Kenya. PETER D'SOUZA. Husband of Luiza. Father of Nikki Azavedo and Anthony D'Souza (UK). Father in law of Daryl Azavedo. Grandfather to Mark Anthony and Lisa Marie Azavedo. Funeral Arrangements will be announced later. Condolences to nicky.azavedo@interfreight2000.com [Info. from Goan Welfare Society, Nairobi].
16 Dec: Agassaim, Goa. JOAO PEREIRA (JOHN). Husband of late Elsa Pereira. Father of Hilary/Sheryl, Romald (UK)/Filomena, William (USA)/Sandra, Derick (UK)/Sarita, Linette/Ashish Pianc Sedrick (USA). Grandfather of Svetlana & Jonathan, Rufina & Elsa, Stacy, Subith, Eva. 14 Dec: Porvorim/Mapusa: MARIA FATIMA RITA COLIMAO D'MELLO. Born 1958. Wife of Roland. Mother of Joshua, Rhea, Reece and Jerusha. Sister of Urbina/Jose (Portugal), Elsa/Francisco, Lourdes/Francisco (UK), Anarosa/Pyarali (UK), Ivette/Arun, Dina/Rupert. Goa Velha: EMMA MARIA D'CUNHA E D'SOUZA. Wife of late Deodita Xavier. Mother of Egidio/Filomena (UK), Cruz (UK)/Catherine, Perpetua/Tony Viegas. Grandmother of Elton, Fiona, Elroy, Chris, Jason and Johan. 8 Dec. Portsmouth, UK. SHIRLEY-ANN PINTO. Daughter of Carry & Jane Pinto (ex-Mombasa). Sister of James/Claire and Nigel Pinto. Aunt to Nathan and Reuben. Condolences to carry.pinto@virgin.net HOLIDAY INFORMATION Video: Sun Beds at Goa’s Shacks UK: Sheffield airline takes off Zurück nach Goa Tout Le Charme De Goa Exploring Ayurveda If it’s New Year, it must be Goa Rejuve Spa in Goa Video: Goa high on wedding tourism PRIZE COMPETITION: Win an amazing trip to
India with Explore! GOA NEWS HEADLINES: Rolf goes to India Video: Goan Christmas minus
the music Goan iron ore mines may be forced to close Problems at Mormugao restrict
Goan iron ore exports Indian Education For
Poor Set To Expand The Goa String Orchestra...
in the spotlight Goa becomes the first state
with disaster management plan: CM Cipla challenges Goa govt’s
order to stop development at SEZ site Video: Goa: The Mining Menace Video: The Chief Minister
answers criticisms of the IT Habitat Strictly IT activities at
IT Habitat: CM Ileana D’Cruz: Fashion Talk Designer with Indian sensibility Video: Weekly summary of Goa News. SEZ or Real Estate Bonanza? Samba set to spice up Goa carnival Video: Christmas preparations in Goa Video: Congress & Anti-SEZ
Demonstrators Clash The Right Choices The much-despised Ghanti: ethnicity,
identity and chauvinism Goan-style
Arsenal school football in Goa Liberate Goa from SEZs, warns meet Ivana Furtado: Creditable show People’s wish will prevail on
SEZ: CM Official recognition demanded for
Roman script IN THE NEWS Take the spice route; Overseas;
Property 9 Dec: The Sunday Times (UK). Moneybags investors bored with eastern Europe are looking to more exotic markets … The Indian government is doing all it can to encourage sales, earmarking special economic zones (SEZs), close to new housing schemes. The zones are tax-free havens for IT and manufacturing, cashing in on the West's continued out-sourcing of business there. "Irish people were among the first investors to spot opportunities in Dubai, and interest in India is on the up. Properties are selling well in Goa and Mumbai," says Andrew Brett, of Larionovo, which specialises in properties in Dubai and India Dowry law making us the
victims, says India's men's movement
13 Dec: The Guardian (UK). New money and old mindsets clash amid claims dishonest wives are exploiting an act passed to protect them. 1000 words. Engaging India: Crackdown on
‘noisy’ driving
13 Dec: Financial Times (UK). The cacophony of honking car horns is an immutable feature of most South Asian metropolises … But now the Mumbai traffic police, in a move that runs against the very culture of driving in this city of 18m, have begun cracking down on noisy motorists. 844 words. Click here. India creates a new generation
of billionaires as family firms come to market
13 Dec: The Times (UK). Fame is about to follow fortune as Bombay’s continuing bull run tempts hundreds of ambitious owners to float their businesses. 780 words. Click here. Stephen Bennett Murder: Family will meet Minister 13 Dec: Gloucestershire Echo. The sister of a man who was murdered in India has turned to Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood for his help in fighting for justice. Amanda Bennett wants police investigations into her brother Stephen's death raised to a higher level. Now, after months of writing letters, Mr Horwood has secured a meeting with Lord Malloch-Brown, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office with responsibility for Asia on January 14. 344 words. Click here. Engaging India: Crackdown on ‘noisy’ driving 13 Dec: Financial Times (UK). The cacophony of honking car horns is an immutable feature of most South Asian metropolises … But now the Mumbai traffic police, in a move that runs against the very culture of driving in this city of 18m, have begun cracking down on noisy motorists. 844 words. Click here. India creates a new generation of billionaires as family firms come to market 13 Dec: The Times (UK). Fame is about to follow fortune as Bombay’s continuing bull run tempts hundreds of ambitious owners to float their businesses. 780 words. Click here. Michelle proves she's a
real glass act
15 Dec: Scottish Daily Record. Pop Idol Michelle McManus reckons some people think her voice can crack glass … She is off to the Far East on January 4 to perform in a production of Little Voice. She said: "I'm going to Singapore, Goa, Beijing and Bangkok. My friends are asking me what I want for Christmas and I'm saying sunblock - lots of it." NRI properties to get legal protection
15 Dec: Herald. Keeping its promise to the NRIs, the State government has decided to amend the Goa, Daman and Diu Buildings Lease, Rent, Eviction Control Act, 1968 to extend legal protection to ancestral properties of NRIs residing abroad … However, the NRIs will have to prove that the place will be occupied by them and only then the place would be evicted. Click here. Brazil to participate first
time in February Goa Carnival 15 Dec: UNI. For the first time, the annual Goa carnival in February will have a ''Brazilian touch'' with Brazil deciding to participate in the event to highlight the ''common heritage and co-operation for the future''. Click here. Why Conrad Black's faith 'will
sustain him' 15 Dec: Globe and Mail (Canada). … Two weeks ago, Lord Black had dinner in Chicago with his friend and mentor, Father Raymond de Souza, chaplain at Newman House at Queen's University in Kingston. According to Father de Souza, Lord Black seemed "tranquil and engaged in affairs other than his own," and "told me that his faith had not flagged, even under what he regarded as unjust suffering." … Click here. Kit catch is a real Goa! 15 Dec: Rochdale Observer (UK). A couple’s holiday in Goa looks set to bring smiles to children’s faces. Darren Tyson and Karen Mercy plan on taking donated football kits to a Catholic-run boys’ home. Karen said: “During our last visit to Goa we noticed that the kids are into football … The home is run by Catholic priests … The home receives no government aid and is run purely by donations.” The couple are appealing for football kits and footballs to take to the home when they travel on 27 December and have been given an extra 20kg baggage allowance by the airline. 363 words. Click here. Washington: Goan links 16 Dec: The Hindu. “Encompassing the globe”, an exhibition organised by the Smithsonian Freer and Sackler Gallery in Washington presented about 250 objects produced by each of the cultures touched by Portugal’s early trade routes … The crucial Goan connection was highlighted by Goan music and dance in a finale by the Ekvat Ensemble. The 17-members of the Ekvat Ensemble came from Lisbon’s community of more than 100,000. Goans. Click here. NRI youth to witness changes
in India 16 Dec Times of India. India has said it will invite its diaspora youth from across the world to visit their booming motherland which is emerging as a global powerhouse … the Indian government had also created an Overseas Indian Facilitation Centre as a one stop shop for serving the interests of overseas Indians … The Govt. is in the process of establishing a University in India to provide world class higher education to PIO (Persons of Indian Origin)/NRI students in the Indian environment. Click here. Take the money and run – illegal
migrants go ‘home’ on handouts 16 Dec: The Sunday Times. Posing as a migrant eager to return to India, Vivek Chaudhary finds a government body eager to help him on his way with £4,000 in cash and allowances and no questions asked. Click here. Doctors quit dirty NHS for India 16 Dec: the Sunday Times (UK). The influx of thousands of Indian doctors into the National Health Service is going into reverse. Hospitals in India are now said to be cleaner and better equipped than many in Britain and doctors are quitting the NHS to work there instead. Click here. India greets its newest Cardinal 17 Dec: Spero News (Texas). Bombay Archdiocese gave a rousing reception to the new Cardinal Oswald Gracias and felicitated him enthusiastically in the Don Bosco Grounds, Matunga, central Mumbai, on Dec.14. Among the dignitaries greeting Cardinal Oswald Gracias were Cardinal Simon Pimenta and 19 bishops and archbishops, as well as Chief Minister of Maharashtra Vilasrao Deshmukh. Click here. UK tries to keep Non-European tourists out 17 Dec: Times of India. Non-European Union tourists to Britain will henceforth be restricted to a three-month visa, instead of the six-month limit in one of the most severe attempts to tighten the UK's borders … Click here. UK: Bexhill rider tackles 1,800-mile
Indian enduro 18 Dec: Rye & Battle Observer. Two weeks in the saddle should see Chris Mayo bump 1,800 miles through India in support of four charities. Click here. Asians in UK cry foul, say
visa policy is a farce 19 Dec: Times of India. Britain has finally formally on Tuesday announced the widely-trailed plans to halve the time non-European Union visitors can stay here, along with the controversial imposition of a financial deposit to sponsor visas for non-EU relatives intending to visit, even as the Labour government was criticized for "gimmickry" and "unfair" immigration policies. Click here. Karma Kosher Conscripts Seek
Refuge in Goa 20 Dec: Bloomberg. The beach is filled with hundreds of young Israelis dancing in a fog of hashish … According to officials, between 40,000 and 60,000 young Israelis have established long-term residence in India … What began in 1994 as the great post-military escape to India has turned into a new-age Diaspora of young and embittered men and women looking to flee their country … Many of the revellers along what's known as the Karma Kosher Trail say they have no intention of returning to Israel … Historically, foreigners looking to sate their spiritual appetites begin at STARCO, an Anjuna hotel and restaurant that for 30 years has been celebrated as Goa's hippie headquarters. 2268 words. Click here. Mumbai: Sailor dies in road mishap,
girlfriend in ICU 20 Dec: Express India. Joseph D’Souza, who turned 39 on Tuesday, had invited his friends and relatives for his birthday celebrations late in the night. It was to be his last. After the party he offered to drop girlfriend Bakhtavar Ilaviya (29), to her home motorcycle but a tempo knocked down the bike, killing Joseph and seriously injuring Bakhtavar. 381 words. Click here. 5-yr-old was kept in prison with
framed mother
20 Dec: Daily News & Analysis. The case of Australian national Vivian Nehme, who was incarcerated for over three years on a trumped up charge, was sad, her defence lawyer said. When the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) arrested her at Mumbai airport on September 20, 2004, she was returning home with her five-year-old daughter after a holiday in Goa … Click here. GOANET HIGHLIGHTS by Cornel DaCosta Those Goan Voice (UK) readers who may be
unfamiliar with the Goan interpretation of
Droit De Seigneur, will be in for some
surprises on reading several Goanet posts
on this theme. It refers to the reputed
manifestation of 'rights' by powerful
landowners to deflower virgins of his choice
from among the poor tenant farmers on his
land. To what extent this is/was a fantasy
or reality is not exactly ascertainable.
However, if one wishes to see a measure of
mirth, or like me, downright fury over the
supposed practice, then it becomes necessary
to read the posts on this unusual theme. UK: TV & RADIO HIGHLIGHTS By Lira Fernandes FILM: The Guru. ITV2 DOCUMENTARY: Discovery
Atlas. Discovery TRAVEL: Beyond Borders –
Kerala. Travel Channel DOCUMENTARY: Mumbai
Uncovered. BBC 1 SERIES: Rich Bride,
Poor Bride. five Life MUSIC: Radio 1's
Classic Essential Mix. BBC Radio One ENTERTAINMENT: Mrs
Unis' Pakora Hunt. BBC Radio Scotland
(also online) FILM: The Count of
Monte Cristo. Film4 TRAVEL: Earthwalkers.
Travel Channel TRAVEL: Around the World in
Eighty Days. BBC 2 COOKERY: Rhodes Across
India. UKTV Food FILM: East Is East. Film4 COMEDY: The Omid Djalili
Show. BBC 1. FORTHCOMING See http://www.lanfranc.com/lanfranc_location_2000.pdf for help in locating Archbishop Lanfranc School, Croydon
Sat. 22 Dec. Goa Medical Reunion UK. Kids
Xmas party 4-6pm. Xmas dance 6-11pm. Children
£6, Adult £12 inc. buffet dinner. Music Danda
Cousins Disco. Catering by Shirleys Kitchen.
Stalls with Xmas sweets, Goan food and paintings
at Holywell Community Centre, Tolpits Lane,
Watford WD18 9QD. Raffle 2 tickets to Mumbai
on Virgin Atlantic. Other fantastic prizes.
For tickets Shirley 0208 366 3251, Gareth 01923
235479, Jack 0208 346 0604 Or Alex 0208 670
3257. Proceeds to the Family of Gregory Fernandes.
For the poster with full details
click here.
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13 Dec: Winnipeg Free Press. SHANNON'S (175
Carlton, 943-2302): Irish pub across from
the Convention Centre.
Sunday 16 Dec [and 30 Dec.] 2007: 9:30 pm: Neal Pinto.
