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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Goa News from Yahoo! News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Goa Officials Slam Baywatch Link (FOX6 WBRC-TV Birmingham) Indian island Goa is set to hire local women as lifeguards - but officials have slammed links with hit US TV show Baywatch. More than 100 people, including a large number of women, from the local fishing community will patrol the beaches of the popular tourist island. http://www.myfoxal.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=978601&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.4.1 *** Goa's Answer to 'Baywatch' Unveiled (RedNova) By David Randall First, the good news for bathers on the notoriously treacherous beaches off Goa in southern India: women lifeguards have been hired. http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/667942/goas_answer_to_baywatch_unveiled/index.html?source=r_science *** Union Govt.To intervene on Karnataka- Goa water diversion (Deccan Herald) The Goa Council of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has denounced Karnataka's decision to divert the Mhadei River water to its Khalsa- Bhandura Project. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep232006/update1322212006923.asp *** Suicide pact: Boy runs away from hospital (Deccan Herald) The Goa police will despatch a team to Bangalore on Tuesday to trace the relatives of a young girl who committed suicide on Colva Beach in South Goa on Friday in a suicide pact with her boyfriend. http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/sep262006/index2113142006925.asp *** Female lifeguards to walk Goa's beaches (UPI) PANAJI, India, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Revelers along Goa's white-sand beaches in southern India might do a double take when female lifeguards start patrolling in one-piece swimsuits. http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060924-090333-6765r *** Ousiders to pay for medical services in Goa (New Kerala) Panaji, Sept 23: People from outside Goa will have to pay for treatment at free government-run hospitals, state Health Minister Dayanand Narvekar said today. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26428 *** Goa exhibits assorted crosses from across the globe (New Kerala) Loutolim (Goa), Sept 24: A unique exhibition of more than 500 crosses has been organized at Loutolim, about 30 kilometres south of Panjim, in Goa. The brain behind this novel show is an enthusiastic collector of crosses, Maendra Alvares. He has collected these crosses from across the globe. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26635 *** Goa man eyes second entry into the Limca Book of Records (New Kerala) Panaji, Sep 24: After finding a place in the Limca Book of Records for sculpting the biggest stone statue of Meerabai in 1995, Goa's Maendra Alvares is now eyeing for another entry in the same Records book for the largest collection of the Cross. http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=26700 *** Goa's answer to 'Baywatch' unveiled (Independent) First, the good news for bathers on the notoriously treacherous beaches off Goa in southern India: women lifeguards have been hired. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article1726103.ece *** Stacy crowned ˜Teen of Goa (Navhind Times) Panaji, Sept 25: Stacy Sequeria of St Thomas High School was crowned ˜Teen of Goa at the ˜Teen of the Year contest organised by ˜Teenager magazine which was held at Don Bosco Oratory, Panaji on Sunday. http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=092623 Compiled by Goanet News Service http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org