--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I HAVE RECEIVED MANY APPLAUSE AND PHONE CALLS OF APPRECIATION.
STEPHEN ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: 19 July 2015 at 10:13 Subject: Re: EDITORS IN GOA ARE IN THE HANDS OF THE GOVERNMENT? To: Stephan Dias <steve.dia...@gmail.com> You have a point On 18-Jul-2015 7:22 am, "Stephen Dias" <steve.dia...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Local Editors in Goa, > > > I have my grievance, that most of our local newspapers in their Letters > to the Editor column are been published letters by either Adelmo Fernandes, > Michael Vaz, S.N. Poojary or Panchu Menon and definitely one can see in > our local papers Gomantak Times, Herald , Navhind Times and even The Goan, > one of these writers names are always there forever. I have my question to > ask the Editors in Goa why only these names all the times seen figuring in > their columns; as if there are no other Goan writers who can write better > than them? Is Goa writers gone on hibernation like frogs? > Please see this suggestion; as Goa needs more and better writers so that > whole image of Goa which is under attack by so called outsiders builders > are finishing Goa and grabbing land of Goa and constructing illegal > buildings for them to stay forever in Goa and Goans will one day will have > to stay on huts. Look at the roads in Goa they are gone , Look at the > sewage in Goa it is gone to the St Ines and Ourem Creek and Mandovi River > as well as in the wells; Look at the old buildings in Goa or Panjim they > are still being utilized and pose danger to the public; Look at the water > and electricity in Goa, the fares have gone up and Goans have no money to > pay their bills; Look at the victims of rapes , murders and thefts all > these things could be well written or exposed by the new writers of Goa and > not keeping these old writers forever in their columns who perhaps are hand > in gloves with the Government and the Editor are using them as they > cooperate with them so that no important facts are been exposed to the > public. Will the Editors of our local dailies open their eyes and see that > this suggestion is implemented? But mind you editing must be minimum. > Thank You > > Stephen Dias > D.Paula > Mob:9422443110 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >