Goan Voice Newsletter: Tuesday 23 Oct. 2018
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Death: Rosa Maria Lopez Gonzalez, wife of Basilio Magno
17 Oct: Torre del Mar, Malaga, Spain. ROSA MARIA LOPEZ GONZALEZ. Wife of Basilio Magno (composer of "Proud to be Goan") died peacefully in hospital after a short illness. The funeral was held on 19 October 2018. Please pray for her that she may rest in peace. Condolences to basiliomagno14@gmail.com
For a recent profile of Basilio Magno,
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Death: Anthony (Monty) Monteiro
19 Oct: Daly City, California. Your prayers are requested for the soul of ANTHONY (MONTY) MONTEIRO who passed away peacefully on October 19th, 2018. Monty’s services will be held on Thursday October 26th, 2018 at 10:30 am, at St Andrew’s Church, 1571 Southgate Ave., Daly City, CA 94015. Monty was a beloved brother to Agnes (late Anthony) Coutinho, late Annie (late Anthony) D’Lima, Alina (late Benny) Rodrigues, Alvy (Ronnie) Mathias, and a loving uncle to nieces, nephews, grandnieces and grandnephews, all residing in the United States. [Info: Pompie Gois].
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Ray Batchelor: The Sultan of sport
22 Oct: Coastweek (Kenya). By Cyprian Fernandes. Raymond Harold Walter Batchelor, (1924 – 2006) better known as simply Ray, is known the world over as the coach who partnered the British Goan legend Seraphino Antao to the 1962 Perth Commonwealth Games sprint double for Kenya one year before independence from Great Britain. Antao was born in Chandor, Goa, and brought to Mombasa by his parents. In 1954, Antao who was a promising soccer player broke an ankle and thought he would never play again. A friend took him to an athletics meeting in Mombasa. Later he met Ray and the rest, as they say, is history… the Achilles Club was started by Ray. Its membership comprised of the best Goan athletes around the Coast and on the national scene: Albert Castanha, Joe Faria, Seraphino Antao, Pascoal Antao, Alcino Rodrigues, Jack Fernandes, Laura Ramos, Phila Fernandes, Juanita Noronha, Meldrita Viegas, Alfred Vienna, Bruno D’Souza… 2528 words + 13 photos. click here
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Aires Rodrigues places Shiroda land deal before Lokayukta for probe
23 Oct: Herald. Activist Aires Rodrigues has lodged a complaint with the Goa Lokayukta over the alleged Rs 70 crore land scam involving former Congress MLA Subhas Shirodkar. The complaint on Monday comes a week after Shirodkar joined the BJP along with Mandrem MLA Dayanand Sopte. Besides Shirodkar, Rodrigues has also named Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar and the Chief Secretary of Goa as respondents. Lokayukta Justice P K Misra issued notice to the Chief Secretary seeking a report from him while also directing him to place the records of the Shiroda land acquisition. In his complaint, Rodrigues has drawn the attention of the Lokayukta as to how Shirodkar, who resigned as MLA on October 16 and joined the BJP, has benefitted from this deal… The land had been bought on October 19, 2006 for Rs 45 per sq mtr and sold now for Rs 3,500 per sq mtr. click here
For the 2003 Goan Voice Aires Rodrigues supplement,
click here
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Foreigners seeking visa must reveal criminal records now
22 Oct: Tribune. Foreigners applying for Indian visa will now have to declare their criminal records as part of the new visa format to check child sexual abuse and a range of other crimes by travellers. The move follows a specific request Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi made to Sushma Swaraj, her counterpart in the MEA, last June to ensure mechanisms to prevent travelling child sex offenders from entering India… For instance, Raymond Varley, convicted in Britain for child sexual abuse in the 1970s hopped from country to country after his release ultimately making India his home. Here he ran a child sex abuse racket dating back to 1989 at a Goa orphanage… click here
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Indian police investigate death of key witness in nun rape case
22 Oct: Reuters. Indian police are investigating the death of a witness in a case involving the alleged rape of a nun by a Roman Catholic bishop, after the body of the witness, a priest who had given a statement to police against the bishop, was found on Monday… Police said the body of Kuriakose Kattuthara, a Catholic priest who police said had spoken to them about Bishop Franco Mulakkal, was found in his room in a church in the northern state of Punjab. “There were no blood marks on his body, and we are investigating the cause of death,” said a police official … click here
Video: 22 Oct: News X. Father Kuriakose found dead …
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From Bengal to Bangla in the Rename Game
22 Oct: Times of India. By Vivek Menezes. “What’s in a name” asked Shakespeare … We find names matter very much indeed. The latest hullaballoo about nomenclature was stirred by Mamata Banerjee’s (photo) move to rename the giant Indian state of West Bengal to ‘Bangla’ … The main problem with the rename game in India is its misguided emphasis on “authenticity” which tends to be connected to regressive and often majoritarian impulses. This has played out with real costs in examples like Bombay-turned-Mumbai … Goa certainly has its issues in this regard. For one thing, if there is one city name desperately crying out for relief it is the linguistic obscenity of ‘Panaji’ which makes no sense in any language, least of all native Konkani. Ponnje would work, and also the more anglicized Panjim, but the status quo is purely ridiculous. Perhaps more achievable is the terrible habit of Goa’s political class of appeasing their parties in the centre, rather than naming after its own great achievers… click here
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Editorial: Recover the mining losses, it’s what needs to be done
23 Oct: Herald. The only entity that talks of recovery of the mining losses is the Goa Foundation. The silence by all others leads one to wonder whether a financial loss to the State exchequer that has been estimated at thousands of crores of rupees is not of any concern to anybody else. Goa Foundation is now contemplating moving the courts to direct the government to recover the Rs 3400 cr from illegal mining operations that has been pointed out by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India and also the State Chartered Accountants audit report. When a government acts only after the intervention of the courts it reflects poorly upon the political will to act against the mining companies that have indulged in illegal mining… click here
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Making Goa a start-up hub! Global investors coming
22 Oct: The Goan. Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu (photo) on Sunday unveiled plans to invite global investors for a meeting in Goa in December to help finance the start-up community in the State. The minister said that the Centre was mulling to make Goa a start-up hub in an effort to create jobs and also help push the economy of the country… Prabhu said the meeting of global investors, financers and others will be held on December 7, wherein all points in regards to setup of start-up community will be discussed. “By this means we can create jobs and also help to push economy.” … He also said that Goa could become start-up and logistics hub to create more jobs… click here
22 Oct: The Statesman. World-class food testing laboratory to be set up in Goa. Union Commerce Minister Suresh Prabhu (photo) on Monday said that a world-class laboratory to test food quality would be set up in Goa …
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Time for Indian Christians not to turn the other cheek
22 Oct: Union of Catholic Asian News. A few years ago, church dealings with law-enforcement agencies were minimal. However, this is not the case now as violence and harassment against Christians have increased in recent times. Anti-Christian violence has risen sharply since 2014, when the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took power and groups supporting the party began promoting "Hindu-ness" (Hindutva) aimed at turning India into a Hindu state. Until about four years ago, Catholic Church leaders generally dismissed allegations that Christians were using fraudulent methods to convert people as "isolated incidents" made by fanatics… In light of the legal assault the church finds itself under, its leaders need to become more skilful regarding the law if it wants to overcome existing legal battles and prevent future harassment through court cases. click here
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