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Goanet Headline News * Oct 30, 2006
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o Military games in the high seas: The USS Boxer participated
in the Malabar 2006 exercises off the Goa Coast. (H)
o Four labourers killed in wall collapse at Baga. (GT)
o Students from Neturlim village in Sanguem taluka have to
travel 120 kms (back and forth) to Margao to answer their
October SSC exams. (H)
o Ahead of All Souls Day on NOve 2, graves get a clean up.H
o Navelim meet urges Govt to settle taxi-operators demands.H
o Cavelossim shack owners serve deadline. (H)
o Gold Star school brings Cambridge education to Goa. (NT)
o Workshop on fashion photography Nov 1-3. (NT)
o Agnel entrepreneurship development programme, at Verna.NT
o Nandkumar Kamat on the booming 'pirated' book market. NT
GREETINGS TO WORLD GOLD MEDALIST from Goa, seven-year-old
Ivana, who won the Under-8 world championships at Georgia.
See [http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/]
Greetings to her parents Eli and Jennifer and brother Keegan.
Wishes from Avo Chico, Avo Lia Lopes and uncles, aunts and
cousins, specially from the Alcasoas, Barbosa Barreto, Lopes
Dias and Fernandes families. GoanetNews is proud of you Ivana!
o Residents eager for the removal of the River Princess.(H)
o RTO official penalised for not furnishing information. (H)
o Goa alert: Save Merces spring (article on Herald)
o Goa-Sri Lanka flights. 0830 dep Goa 1030 arr Colombo
See [http://www.srilankan.aero]
POLITICAL JOKES & JOKERS
o Bringing Churchill into politics was a mistake: Luizinho.
o Congress capable of going to polls alone: Shantaram Naik
o Former Shiv Sena president Sanjay Harmalkar joins BJP.H
o Luizinho Faleiro, Churchil are 'kumpars', says Joaquim.H
o Convert old GMC building into museum, says Matanhy. (GT)
o CM to look into tourist taxi operators' issues. (NT)
o Congress lauded for good governance. (NT)
o Aires should not be allowed to enter Cuncolim: Mario Moraes
o Nothing personal against Joaquim: Aires Rodrigues. (GT)
o Beware of politicians, anti-MetaStrips' Vaz cautions.
GOAN FLOWERS From the http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bsg-goa list:
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Courtesy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NEW WEBSITE FOR EXPATS: NRI Commissioner Eduardo Faleiro
announced the launch of the website
[http://www.globalgoans.org.in] It was launched by CM
Pratapsing Rane and is "intended to be a channel of
communication between the Office of the Commissioner for NRI
Affairs and the entire Goan diaspora." Said Faleiro: "We have
attempted to make it comprehensive and comparable to be the
best in the Internet. We are at the very initial stages and
do look forward to suggestions for improvement. There are
limitations in the technology available in Goa as in most
other parts of the country except in some major metropolitan
cities. We are trying to obtain transfer of the required
technology and it will useful not just for this site but to
all other websites that may be developed in future in this
State. This Office should now be contacted at the following
address. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would be glad if all
Goans who access the Internet, whether in Goa or elsewhere
use our website as their homepage. Its multiple features
will certainly be of interest to them." [For a start, the
site should make most of its information available without
the need for registration. --FN]
GLOBAL CONVENTION: The Global Goans Convention will be held
in Panaji on January 3-5, 2007. It will be inaugurated by the
Chief Minister Pratapsingh R. Rane. Some ambassadors
accredited to countries with a substantial number of Goan
emigrants as well as ambassadors in India of some such
countries are expected to address the Convention. Highlights
of the Convention will include interaction of NRGs with
ministers on on Government policies, with an accent on those
which specifically relate to them, presentation of awards to
some eminent Goans in the diaspora apart from cultural
programmes. The valedictory function will be addressed by the
Governor of Goa S. C. Jamir. An outline of the programme is
available on the http://www.globalgoans.org.in] website
GOA TO BLAME FOR Mhadei mes, writes Jose