[Goanet-News] NEWS: Scanner on casinos for money laundering, terror funding (Times of India)

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet News
Scanner on casinos for money laundering, terror funding TNN 25 December 2009, 05:55am IST PANAJI: To prevent money laundering and financing of terrorist activities, the Goa government has made it mandatory for casino owners to put in place a system to check customer identity and report

[Goanet-News] LINKING-UP: St. Patrick's College, Karachi, Pakistan

2009-12-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
Menin Rodrigues will be there at the Karachi Goans meet at 3 pm tomorrow (Monday, Dec 28, 2009) at Foodland Miramar. This will be followed by the Goanetters' meet starting at 4 pm at the same venue. Please pass the word around if you know any ex-Karachi Goans. FN -- Forwarded message

[Goanet-News] Goanet Reader: Cause celebre... Wendell Rodricks and Goa (Business Standard)

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet Reader
Business Standard Delhi December 27, 2009 MEET WENDELL RODRICKS wendellrodri...@gmail.com AT THE GOANETTERS' 2009 MEET, DEC 28, MONDAY AT 4 PM, MIRAMAR FOODLAND: Cause celebre Archana Jahagirdar / New Delhi December 27, 2009 Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks, in his activist avatar, keeps the

[Goanet] Dr. Oscar's rubbish

2009-12-27 Thread soter
Were we wrong when we criticised Dr. Oscar Rebello and the GBA? Definitely not. Here is the truth directly from the horse's mouth published two days after christmas in a local daily. Dr. Oscar says; Secondly, all the functions of the gram sabha are not explained to the villagers properly.

[Goanet] A tribute to bass legend Victor Alvares

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet AE
A tribute to bass legend Victor Alvares Written by NT Network Sunday, 27 December 2009 01:33 Victor, lovingly known to his family and friends as Pequeno, was a world renowned bassist and musician who had played with George Harrison, Remo, Oliver Sean, Ossibissa and many other International

Re: [Goanet] Dr. Oscar's rubbish

2009-12-27 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Why is the Goan media still devoting column-inches to what this charlatan Dr. Oscar Rebello has to say? After he has confessed in his own words to collaborating with the govt thus betraying the Save Goa movement? Ashwin Tombat and Derek Almeida - when are you two fellows going

[Goanet] NEWS: Scanner on casinos for money laundering, terror funding (Times of India)

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet News
Scanner on casinos for money laundering, terror funding TNN 25 December 2009, 05:55am IST PANAJI: To prevent money laundering and financing of terrorist activities, the Goa government has made it mandatory for casino owners to put in place a system to check customer identity and report

[Goanet] Talking Photo: Check this Santa Claus (not riding on horse back, reindeer cart etc but..)

2009-12-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photo: Check this Santa Claus (not riding on horse back, reindeer cart etc but..) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk22/4218093469/sizes/l/   St. Anthony Boys of Agali, Margao near Fatorda joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa NRI related info...

[Goanet] Talking photos:Palaces etc

2009-12-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking photos:Palaces etc   This Palace is made up of Marbles (Soda Bottle) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk22/4218861800/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk22/4218860996/sizes/l/   By BGN  Boys, Agali, Margao     This is Margao Holy Spirit Church (Replica)

[Goanet] Fwd: St. Patrick's College, Karachi, Pakistan

2009-12-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
Menin Rodrigues will be there at the Karachi Goans meet at 3 pm tomorrow (Monday, Dec 28, 2009) at Foodland Miramar. This will be followed by the Goanetters' meet starting at 4 pm at the same venue. Please pass the word around if you know any ex-Karachi Goans. FN -- Forwarded message

[Goanet] Comunidade Elections in MoiraA

2009-12-27 Thread Tony de Sa
The elections to the Moira Comunidade for the Trimester 2010 - 2013 were held today, 27th December, 2009 in a tranquil atmosphere, The new committee was enthusiastically voted in. President Lawrence D'Souza and Attorney Marshall D'Mello were elected with a thumping majority. Treasurer Anthony de

[Goanet] Conflicts of interest - the dirty politics behind

2009-12-27 Thread Mario Goveia
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:59:03 + From: Carmen Miranda carmitamira...@gmail.com 1 - There were 192 countries and heads of goverment in the Copenhagen Climate Conference. Fancy you noticing only Mugabe and Chavez! As it turned out Chavez made some very good interventions, but you wouldn't

[Goanet] Gold and you

2009-12-27 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Folks, I must admit that every time I see the heading God and you in a Goanet post, I get excited. I open that post expecting to read something from the material world but then realize, once again, that it is Albert writing more on God and you' and not on Gold and you as my pre-conditioned

[Goanet] Selma Carvalho: Who the bleep cares about Christmas with Seraphino Antao?

2009-12-27 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Title: Who the bleep cares about Christmas with Seraphino Antao? By: Selma Carvalho Source: Goan Voice UK Daily Newsletter, 28 Dec. 2009 at http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/ Full text: If someone had told me a few years ago that I'd be spending Christmas with Seraphino Antao, I'd tell them they

Re: [Goanet] Goa taxi driver hit us with baseball bat

2009-12-27 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Salus Correia wrote: Samir has gone 'bananas'!  Pramod Shirodkar is definitely a Goan so please do not link him and spoil the 'good name' of the ghatis.  Goans are rapists besides other things.  Remove the blinkers.  Every community has its bad apples, and Goans are not exempt.

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Cause celebre... Wendell Rodricks and Goa (Business Standard)

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet Reader
Business Standard Delhi December 27, 2009 MEET WENDELL RODRICKS wendellrodri...@gmail.com AT THE GOANETTERS' 2009 MEET, DEC 28, MONDAY AT 4 PM, MIRAMAR FOODLAND: Cause celebre Archana Jahagirdar / New Delhi December 27, 2009 Fashion designer Wendell Rodricks, in his activist avatar, keeps the

[Goanet] Apurbayecho Kunvor

2009-12-27 Thread Daniel F. de Souza
‘Apurbayecho Kunvor’ – a touching tribute to a beloved son. Adorable Dr. Francisco Colaco needs no formal introduction to Goans he is not only Goa’s eminent Cardiologist with a very humane heart but a passionately true Goan in every sense of the word. Whenever he speaks his heart out at any

Re: [Goanet] NEWS: Scanner on casinos for money laundering, terror funding (Times of India)

2009-12-27 Thread AF
ho, so western. this system of checks to ensure suspicious activities. the end of the Goa days as the innocent, the peaceful, the unassuming vacation spot of the world and the home of the susegad-goans! what a pity! anthony fernandes

[Goanet] TAG to Remember Lucasinho Ribeiro

2009-12-27 Thread Tiatr Academy Goa
Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) will for the first time celebrate the birth anniversary of Lucasinho Ribeiro, pioneer of Goan Tiatr, who scripted, directed and staged the first Tiatr Italian Bhurgo on 17th April, 1892 in Bombay. Lucasinho Ribeiro was born on 2nd January 1863 at sokol Vaddo,

[Goanet] Talking Photos: bypass - cherchil's xmas gift

2009-12-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
Talking Photos: bypass - cherchil's xmas gift   One way Agassaim Bypass http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk22/4218244285/sizes/l/   dusty Bypass http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk22/4219011266/sizes/l/ Pic taken on 27/12/09 around 11.30am Bypass thown open late nite 23/12/09

[Goanet] Copenhagen Folly

2009-12-27 Thread Rumba_Pete
Thank you Mario Goveia, for that excellent link! ( http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/climate-folly-79787117.html) Environmentalists have always wanted to hijack the world with their seriously flawed ideology. In artfully packaging environmentalism to seem like any major world religion, they have

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Goa's growing urban chaos: any solutions? (Frederick Noronha, in Herald)

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet Reader
Goa's growing urban chaos: any solutions? By Frederick Noronha f...@goa-india.org Goa's urban spaces are bursting at the seams, getting crowded, lack entertainment, and face unplanned growth and urban sprawl. As if that all was not enough, this small

[Goanet] Three interesting pieces from The New REPUBLIC

2009-12-27 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Three interesting pieces from The New REPUBLIC Taking Ideological Differences Seriously http://www.tnr.com/blog/the-plank/taking-ideological-differences-seriously (A lot to learn here) Aquacalypse http://www.tnr.com/article/environment-energy/aquacalypse-now (The accompanying illustration is a

[Goanet] Is this the way Gram Sabha conducted?

2009-12-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
Is this the way Gram Sabha conducted?   We went there to see the Xmas Crib (Raia – Zumviar, one of the regular spots) It was closed for public day time but what we saw was  this typical Tintto like rough or noisy  meeting  with about 100 people.   Shouting, Physical assault, swearing words like

[Goanet] Press Note

2009-12-27 Thread Tiatr Academy Goa
*Tomazinho Cardozo* *President* *Tiatr** **Academy** **Goa*** * * *Press Note * *for favour of publication* * * *Panjim: 27 / 12 / 09* * * *TAG to Remember Lucasinho Ribeiro* * * Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG) will for the first time celebrate the birth anniversary of Lucasinho

Re: [Goanet] Comunidade Elections in MoiraA

2009-12-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
Tony, Congrats on being elected! Just a query: a friend mentioned that (i) the only persons eligible to vote in the Comunidade elections are those (males) who are currently registered on the comunidade active list (ii) if there is less than the required quorum -- 25 or so -- then elections are

[Goanet] Goa news for December 28, 2009

2009-12-27 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Russian outrage at Goa rape probe, fear for nationals - AFP ape-SC-refuses-Goa-neta-bail/articleshow/5353015.cmsusg=AFQjCNHhSJynVPJMR2VACvIUJWugG0GZFwRussian's rape: SC refuses Goa neta

[Goanet] Please Voice Your Support for Goa, its Land its Identity

2009-12-27 Thread Arwin Mesquita
Dear Goans, (A) My Letters in the oHERALDo (Goan Local Daily) : http://www.oheraldo.in/innerlistsearch.asp?cid=offset=0txtsearch=arwin%20mesquitacbosearch=4action=nsearch (I request each one of you to write to the Goan Media; in support of saving of Goa, its land and its identity; please write

[Goanet] Compliments of the Season - Happy New Year 2010

2009-12-27 Thread Wilson Coelho
Dear Near Ones / Friends Foes, Wishing one and all Compliments of the Season A Very Happy Prosperous 2010 May Good Lord forgive and bless the paths of those mislead/misguided. May those in darkness see the light Let us ring out the old Let us ring in the new Let us cleanse our

[Goanet] Tale of two tarvottis or insidious casteism

2009-12-27 Thread Antonio Menezes
Goan seamen or tarvottis come from all sections of our society and from Salcete as well as Bardez. Once on board of a ship, caste and class distinctions are forgotten. They share the same living quarters, eat food at the same table and in working hours there is generally bonhomie in the sense one

[Goanet] Cribs, Palaces etc from CANSAULIM - a clip

2009-12-27 Thread JoeGoaUk
Cribs, Palaces etc from CANSAULIM   Cottar, Costa Wado, Tonttem Falvado Arossim Bandar http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIAD9GFZq-k   Pics In one, you will see a palace by weaving coir rope   This one made from coir rope (Sumb/Sutli) By youth of Tontem

[Goanet] OBITUARY - Flaubert Domingos Gomes - Comba, Margao (Ex-Kuwait)

2009-12-27 Thread Goa World
O B I T U A R Y Flaubert Domingos Gomes Comba, Margao Goa (Ex-Al-Babtain Group, Kuwait) Died: 27 Dec 2009 Photo: http://picasaweb.google.ca/GoanetBlog/Obits#5420155222133209634 Beloved husband of Wendy Gomes (Kuwait) Son of late Domingos and late Milagrina Gomes Son-in-law of late

Re: [Goanet] Should you believe the word 'Goanese' is a pejorativeterm? (Selma Carvalho, Goanet summaries)

2009-12-27 Thread Ivy de Souza
Just returned from a long holiday. My thoughts - When we first arrived in New Zealand 35 years ago and heard people working on the Cruise Ships use the word 'Goanese' Goan residents here frowned and I still remember a friend (since expired) saying Those from Samoa are Samoans so

[Goanet] Clergy's Political support

2009-12-27 Thread Bernado Colaco
In this festive season I ask Barrister JC where is the police and authority in Goa?   Boas entradas!   BC       Cip Fernandes wrote: The Goa Bishop should dicipline the Clergy of Corruption and Homosexuality in Goa first. COMMENT: I disagree with Cip. There is NOTHING to discipline anybody

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (28Dec09)

2009-12-27 Thread alexyz fernandes
WARNING: All Russian women etc...a certain ex-Governor may enter Goa on Health Grounds This is his Latest Photo To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] KYOSEI – MondayMuse(28Dec’09)

2009-12-27 Thread Pravin Sabnis
MONDAY MUSE (28 December 2009)  KYOSEI   ‘Kyosei’ is a union of two Japanese words: ‘kyo’ means together and ‘sei’ means to live. The term was first used in academic biology to refer to symbiosis. However, the concept of ‘kyosei’ is also increasingly used in the social context as ‘living and

[Goanet] Goanet Reader: Goa's growing urban chaos: any solutions? (Frederick Noronha, in Herald)

2009-12-27 Thread Venantius J Pinto
Fred, Lack of awareness? Certainly not among those living on thatqauater? Can't just dump all this shit on immigrants--can we? So it would have to be the utter disregard for planning, for culture, for flair (yes western,and puedo-western if one has to spell that out too) that has benefited

[Goanet] Political shinaneo and point-blank political commentary

2009-12-27 Thread Venantius J Pinto
I wonder what our Indian/Goan politicians including the Ranes, and other political shinaneos would do, if in Goa someone like an Indian Keith Olberman, or anyone for that matter, was to give the kind of commentary and take names/lambastes as he does of the US President and US senators. Beatings,

[Goanet] From the VHAG (Voluntary Health Association of Goa)

2009-12-27 Thread Frederick Noronha
-- Forwarded message -- From: VHA GOA vha...@gmail.com Date: 2009/12/28 Subject: re: [Goanet-News] Dec 28, 2009 Goanetters' meeting Dear Sir, On behalf of VHAG, I will be attending the meet on 28th with copies of the health care and rights of patients booklet in Roman konkani. I

[Goanet] Cribs, palaces at CANSAULIM

2009-12-27 Thread A C Fernandes
Dear Joebab, Compliments for the Christmas Season and Best Wishes for the New Year 2010! As usual the wonderful pictures of these cribs in Cansaulim that you've posted, built lovingly by the villagers keeping in mind the local beauty that Cansaulim, Arossim and Cuelim offers is something that

Re: [Goanet] Goa taxi driver hit us with baseball bat

2009-12-27 Thread Salus Correia
Mervyn: So was I!!! Message: 3 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 07:54:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mervyn Lobo mervynal...@yahoo.ca To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: Re: [Goanet] Goa taxi driver hit us with baseball bat Message-ID:

[Goanet] Daily Grook #595

2009-12-27 Thread Francis Rodrigues
DAILY GROOK #595 === CLAWS FLAWS === by Francis Rodrigues i have a puss wi' dull paws, so this x'mas i santa claus! *GREAT CHRISTMAS GIFT* http://www.KonkaniSongBook.com === sheet-music,tab,lyrics,chords of great Konkani