[Goanet] Colomb delegation submits petition at CCF's office, Panaji.
Dears, A delegation of villagers from Colomb village in Sanguem [ Quepem Police station jurisdiction] submitted a petition to the office of the Chief Conservator of Forests. The CCF [Shashi Kumar IFS], the CF [C.A. Reddy, IFS] and the powerful DCFs were out of station, so it fell to the lot of Mr. Santosh Kumar,IFS, the DCF [Planning Statistics] at the old Passport Office to receive the delegation, give it a patient hearing and direct them to submit the petition to the Inward Clerk. The CCF is likely to return to office next week. The delegation consisting of Rama Lavu Velip, Mathew Motes Antao, Dument Peter D'Souza [all veterans of arrests by Quepem Police beginning 25 March, 2007 under Dy. Collector Johnson Fernandes and thereafter under Dy. Collector Venancio Furtado and recently under Mamlatdar Matu] and others were part of the delegation of farmers affected by the illegal mining in the Titulo de Concessao of Hiralal Khodidas, allegedly without any Forest or Environmental clearance, with a case [filed by Rama, Dr. Avadhoot Prabhudesai and Goa Foundation against Fomento Group company ILPL and Goa Department of Forests and GSPCB] pending in the court of law. The villagers allege that the DCF-South is colour blind and cannot see the difference between the forest and the mine but that is compensated by a sharper sense of taste for chicken xacuti and currency. A similar petition was to be handed to the Chairman of GSPCB and the Chief Secretary of Goa. Mog asundi Miguel Get perfect Email ID for your Resume. Grab now http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
[Goanet] Police Intelligence: Paradox or possibility in Goa?
discussed at length, in a bid to strengthen security at these sensitive sites. Sources in the collector's office informed that oil companies have been asked to take additional security measures since the both IOC and HPCL are located very close to the Khariwado sea shore. Later in the evening, Mormugao Deputy Collector Levinson Martins, Vasco DySP Deu Banavlikar and oil company official inspected the Indian oil tanks and Hindustan oil tanking in Vasco and Ammonia tanks at Sada. A report in this regard will be submitted to the collector's office regarding additional security measures to be adopted by the oil companies. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] Festachim Porbim - Happy Feast
and the local Portuguese commandant of the region. His efforts with the Parava fishing community to the east of Cabo Camurin [Cape Camorin] were being watched with interest by the Mukuva fisherfolk who lived on the western side of the Cabo Camurim. Fr. Francisco's efforts in 1544 ensured their conversion to Christianity. By now, he had memorised the necessary phrases and sentences in the Tamil language. Several thousand Mukuvas were baptised and given Portuguese names. It is while he was with the Mukuvas that Fr. Francisco heard about the massacre of several hundred natives of nearby Mannar. The Hindu King of Jaffna, in northern Ceilao, now Sri Lanka upon hearing of the conversion of these Mannars to Christianity, sent his men to their villages and slew them. In another part of Ceilao, the Crown Prince of Kotte was murdered after he was baptised . The fate, befallen these martyrs greatly disturbed Fr. Francisco. He had to find a method of protecting his flock. What is quite clear from all accounts is, that Fr. Francisco communicated quite regularly with his fellow Jesuits, the Portuguese Governor of Goa, King Joao III of Portugal and Pope Paul III . Many of these letters were written in Cochin, then an important Portuguese port, now Kochi, in the Indian State of Kerala. He returned to Goa in 1548. A new Viceroy, Dom Joao de Castro was in office. The Portuguese elite and some members of the clergy in the city, still smarting from the stinging comments about them by Fr. Francisco to their King, began a smear campaign against the Jesuit. The Viceroy was advised that Fr. Francisco was a 'meddler' and 'mischief maker', who was 'partial' to his fellow Spaniards. Upon meeting Fr. Francisco, however, Dom Joao realised that he was an honest and religious man who had a gripe against the immorality and corruption among the government officials in Goa. Thereafter, he frequently sought advice and guidance from Fr. Francisco. Fr. Francisco formally took over teaching at the College of the Holy Faith in 1548. This college trained secular priests from all over Asia and the eastern seaboard of Africa. These 'natives of distant lands' travelled back to their homelands to carry on the work of the Church. ( The majority of priests in Goa today are secular. They provide for the flock of Goan Catholics in parishes all over Goa. ) Fr. Francisco's next journey would be to Japan. The evil ways of the Portuguese officials and elite in Old Goa, the perils of the numerous sea journeys to the far flung lands, the complicated politics of the days - some involving the duplicity and cunning of the Portuguese commandants in those lands - the struggles with the poor fisherfolk on either side of the Cabo Camurim, the anxiety over the risks these poor people faced for having converted to the Christian way of life and the horrible massacre of the Mannars by the Hindus must have caused deep anguish to Fr. Francisco. The Paravas, however, resisted all the pressure they faced from the neighbouring peoples. They have remained faithful to Christianity till this day - a fine testimony to the effort of Fr. Francisco. Conversions from Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent have mainly been from the lower classes and castes. It was also a means for the people of the lower castes to escape the unmitigated, unrelenting subjugation to and humiliation by the upper castes. After all, the structure of the caste system ensured that the down-trodden had no hope of overcoming the caste based discrimination - ever. In the 1950s, millions of lower caste Hindus escaped this 'Karma' or 'fate' by converting to Buddhism. Francisco de Xavier was canonized in 1622, along with his mentor Ignacio de Loyola. Today, the unpreserved but as-yet-undisintegrated body of St. Francisco lies in a wooden coffin inside a silver casket in the Basilica de Bom Jesus in Old Goa. It can be seen in the chapel, as one turns right, at the main altar of the basilica. The casket has a glass window through which, the head is clearly seen. There have been numerous expositions and millions of people of all faiths and countries have seen the body. The body has gradually lost some of its moisture and future expositions have been restricted. Photography during The Feast Of St. Francis Xavier By William Rodrigues KEEP IN TOUCH WITH GOA THROUGH THE PRINT MEDIA http://www.v-ixtt.com http://www.gulabonline.com http://www.oheraldo.in http://www.navhindtimes.com COLLECTION OF KONKANI POEMS OF LINO B. DOURADO http://www.goa-world.com/goa/poems/ http://www.ordinarywords.com/questforlife/ Source: Goanet Digest, Vol 3, Issue 1544 *** -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] Terror: Appropriate response from the state.
that also cost time and lives. In addition to the creation of a special police unit devoted to going after identified terrorists, India needs to ensure that political correctness does not stand in the way of combating terrorism. Also, reform within the police is badly needed to ensure that political interference in its work is reduced. The reforms must also target endemic corruption, which too often enables terrorists to make their way through security screens. Does the country have the political will necessary for such reform? If not, India will continue to pay a heavy price in lost growth and lives. The rest of the world also needs to heed the wake-up call of Mumbai. Because many of those killed in Mumbai were affluent, the elite in India has at last awakened to the reality of terrorism. Over the past five years, more than 2,000 lives have been lost because of terrorist-related activities just in Maharashtra, yet little has been done because the victims were almost all poor and dispossessed. Now that the terrorists have struck at India's billionaires and millionaires, perhaps the elites will finally take action to reduce the country's vulnerability. Unless the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks -- whoever they are and wherever they may be -- are identified and punished, this tragedy will be followed by similar attacks in the West as surely as the Kandahar hijacking (during which key terrorist leaders were released in exchange for hostages) was the precursor to 9/11. M. D. Nalapat holds the UNESCO Peace Chair and is a director of the Department of Geopolitics at Manipal University in Southern India. The views expressed in this commentary are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL Source: On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] Goanet] GOA State Police Authority - Chairman involved in accident
Dears, It will be interesting to know to whom the water tanker GA-01-T-7272 belongs. Numbers with repetition of digits come at a price [officially since the 1990s] from the RTO. The Cortalim-Margao road has a RCC median at Verna but not at Kesarval, where the accident reportedly occured. Mog asundi. Miguel Tanker driver arrested NT NETWORK Posted on 2008-12-05 VASCO The Verna police have arrested the driver of a tanker, Kamlesh Kumar Bind (26) of Vasco, which was involved in an accident that was reported on the highway at Verna on Wednesday. A woman was killed in the accident. According to the investigating police officer, Mr Nolasco Raposo said that he has been arrested under section 304 (A) of Indian Penal Code upon a complaint lodged by Mr Carlos Santana Da Silva on Thursday. Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:46:10 -0500 From: Venantius Pinto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] GOA State Police Authority - Chairman involved in accident Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Things like teaching people safety, civil behavior, driving etiquette, courtesy, etc., other than the obvious A lot of social education was left undone and unfinished. Perhaps we do not take to self-education too kindly. There was no honking, no startling the children in anyway including sudden braking, yelling, leering, just, I presume a certain dignity towards them. That image has stayed with me. Some day I hope people are taught to look across classes and social positions -- taking into consideration their circumstances. I would think these are issues that the Governments Secretaries should be looking at. This is not rocket science we are talking about, and that too is pretty simple as shown by our earlier President. People matter dammit. This business of taking, taking, taking -- has to end someplace. My condolences to the family of Mr Eurico Santana Silva. May Thelma Pinto e Silva rest in peace. Venantius J Pinto From: godfrey gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] GOA State Police Authority - Chairman involved in accident In a tragic accident last night at 2220 hrs the official car No: GA-03-G-8008 in which Justice (Retd) Bombay High Court , Mr Eurico Santana Silva was travelling collided with an oncoming water tanker GA-01-T-7272 just beyond the Titan junction on the NH 17 towards the Cortalim- Margao road as confirmed to this writer telephonically with the Verna Police Station today. The accident took place at a spot where there is no road divider, according the police official . Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
[Goanet] Vasco based cops getting efficient overnight? or just media savvy?
Dears, Below are three clippings from the Navhind Times today 5/12/08] Days after reports and even editorial criticism in the NT [besides the Prudent Media video footageon 4.12/08], the Coastal Police Station, Mamagoa Harbour/Vasco has Intercepted two fishing trawlers. Hey! Don't go into a dream sequence imagining the CPS staff, freshly back from Law Disorder duty at INOX or Kala Academy for IFFI, chasing pirates in their speed boats and blazing away with 20 mm cannons or putting a shell across the bow of the erring vessel. All the CPS-Harbour has is a canoe with an outboard motor ...and no technical staff to operate it!! The boats were apparently detained after they had docked to pick up provisions and to get medical treatment to one of the ailing fisherman! Makes a good news item ... Detaining [NOT arresting] 18 fishermen just the same. The Actionable word intercept also embellishes the news to make it worthy of mention in a James Bond Film. The 300 persons held or rounded up [again NOT arrested] in the raids at Khariwada will turn out to be Oriya or Bengali fishermen employed by the fishing trawlers. If they are detained over the weekend, your fish will cost you dearly. I do hope that the accident of Justice Eurico Santana da Silva's car was not on purpose. He lost his wife, Thelma, in the tragic accident and is seriously injured. As the Chairman of the Goa State Police Complaints Authority [the SPCA for Police men], he was a thorn in the side of many a senior policeman, hauling them up for harrassing the people whom they are supposed to serve. Accidents can be quite convenient. They say Mark Fernandes and Evagrio Jorge died of an accident right near what is now the Panaji Residency. When I was still a school boy, my classmate Debashsih Burman's, father died of an accident. Accidents do happen, you know. these are dangerous days. See what happened in the accident of 9/11 in New York. Why do they build such tall buildings when there are planes flying in the air? If one values one's life, one should travel in an APC or a Battle tank! Even after the transfer of Mohan Naik and others from Panaji city to Altinho, it looks like the Indian sun [Ravi] will still miss home. May be Public Works will be a suitable golden handshake. With all the fishermen from Orissa being harrassed, Churchill may have an uphill task ...and I am not Joking! ;-) Mog asundi Miguel PS I just love the SRK in Rab ne banaya jodi look of the Mapusa MLA, also a Ba-bush at a time Obama is saying to the other Hogo- Bush to George Bush or to use Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan's father's words, Po da ;-) .. Coastal police intercept two fishing trawlers NT NETWORK Posted on 2008-12-05 VASCO Ensuring that no stone remains unturned in view of the security aspect in the coastal belt of Mormugao, the MPT, central industrial security force, Harbour Coastal Police, Mormugao police and Vasco police in a joint operation, intercepted a fishing trawler from Alleppy, Kerala on Thursday, and have booked the crew onboard, on suspicion and failing to produce identity cards. In another incident, the Harbour Coastal Police have also detained one fishing trawler from Tamil Nadu, which had entered into Goan waters seeking medical attention for one of its onboard crew member. In all 18 crew from these two trawlers have been arrested under section 41 of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). According to the information, the MPT vessel while patrolling the sea along with the help of CISF personnel intercepted a fishing trawler at around 5.30 p.m. namely, Cinan, which is registered in Alleppy, Kerala. The MPT personnel passed the message to the Coast Guard who in turn intimated the Harbour coastal police and Mormugao police. Upon verification and search conducted by the police personnel, it was found that the trawler was carrying only fish. The fishing trawler has entered Goa to buy food and provisions for their return journey. While in the second case, the Harbour coastal police have detained a fishing trawler namely Arokya Annai which is registered at Tamil Nadu Over 300 held in Vasco combing operation NT NETWORK Posted on 2008-12-05 VASCO In a joint combing operation conducted by Vasco, Mormugao and Verna police, over 300 suspected persons were rounded up from Khariwada area of Vasco on late Thursday night. The deputy superinten-dent of police, Vasco, Mr Deu Banaulikar informed that the police picked up over 300 persons from Khariwada jetty, Non-Mon, Saibini Bhaat and Khariwada Hindu crematorium locality. The persons who failed to provide their identity and have been residing as tenants in fishermen?s dwellings in entire Khariwada belt were picked up, said Mr Banaulikar. The combing operation is part of security check and it would continue in the other parts of Mormugao taluka. Informing that more migrants would be picked up from coastal
[Goanet] Check how 'dirty' Goa Police can be..
Dear Joe, When we were little children we played the game of Cops and Robbers or Chor-Pulis. It is only in recent years that we have learnt that the Konkani term for the game is more appropriate ...robbing cops! The game begins with the need to pay a fee allegedly of Rs.13 lakhs... to confirm one's berth in the selected list after passing the physical, written and oral tests in the selection process to become a trainee Police sub-inspector. Once you begin the recovery process, the sickness afflicts one like AIDS or drug addiction. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:25:08 + (GMT) From: JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Check how 'dirty' Goa Police can be.. Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you ever hear the Goa Police involved in stealing ? read this.. At Goa Dabolim International Airport, some unknown culprit entered into the Flamingo Duty Free Shop by digging a hole into the wall and attempted to steal Duty Free items worth about Rs. 3.5 lacs. Investigation revealed that it was none other than a Police Constable Hemant Kankonkar who was actually involved in the burglary. Mr. Kankonkar was attached to the Police Outpost at Dabolim Airport. Ever heard of Goa Police selling drugs in Goa? Two Calangute constables caught selling heroin Panaji: Two constables from Calangute police station were caught red-handed while trying to sell heroin worth about Rs 3 lakh at Calangute late Wednesday evening. http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Daily/skins/TOI/navigator.asp?Daily=TOIGOlogin=default GOEMCHEA MHOJEA POLICE MAMA, KITEM GA TUMCHIM KAMA ?? Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
[Goanet] Seminaron RP 2021-16th Dec 2008-Nanutel, Margao
Dears, A copy of the regional plan is available at http://goagovt.nic.in/tcp/ . Also see www.savegoa.com Dr. Jenifer Lewis Kamat from Vasco, with a Ph.D in engineering from Birmingham-UK, is perhaps the most qualified Civil Engineer in Goa today. You bet, I am proud to know her and her engineer husband, Rotarian Bharat Kamat, personally. I do hope Mr. S.T. Puttaraju goes well prepared to answer how public roads have disappeared from DRP 2021 plans, how Eco Sensitive Zone-1 paddy fields in Chicalim wetlands have been painted as settlement zones, how non-convertible Private Forests have become convertible Orchards or directly as industial estates in the DRP-2021. May be it will be nice to invite the Margao based graphic artist, Mr. Ashok da Costa, to explain the disrepencies in the DRP 2021 plans which he reportedly plotted for the Task Force on RP 2021 from which fortunately the Goa Bachao Abhiyan extricated itself before the final report fulfilling the prophesy of druze poet from Lebanon, Khalil Gibran, when he wrote thus in The Prophet: No Problem approaches a Man except with an Opportunity in its hands. We grabbed that Opportunity while the moon overshadowed the sun on 01 August, 2008, ...and have hugged her tight ever since. It is time to tell the Emperor [of Goa] that he is naked ... just as his name says it in Sanskrit and many other Indian languages. That is the naked Truth. After that, let Goa go to the Drawing Board ...village by 189 villages, taluka by taluka for North and South Goa Districts. Let the District Planning Committees [DPC] finalise their plans for each half of Goa ...and send it from their drawing boards to the TCP Board. That is what is called Bottom-Up Planning. [What we say at cocktail dinners is BottomS-Up ...and it is often unplanned.]. That is what the Article 243 of Constitution of India says .and the Governments in India are sworn by the Constitution of India, not by the Regional Plans!! Since Civil Engineers know how to read Plans, it is hoped they will expose the Renegades!! The Goa Bachao Abhiyan [GBA], the Ganv Ghor Rakhon Manch [GGRM], the Council for Social Justice Peace, Utth Goenkara [minus Advocate-at-large], Aldona Bachao Abhiyan, Taleigao Bachao Abhiyan, the Village-level Civic and Consumer Forums of GOACAN, the Centre for Panchayati Raj [CPR], the Panchayat Mahila Shakti Abhiyan [PMSA], the Zilla Panchayats, the Village Gram Sabhas and others will be debating the DRP 2021 with the people of Goa. Those who do not debate and take the issue forward are heretics who do not bear witness to the Truth and , to borrow Dr. Oscar Rebelo's terminology, anti-Goans !! I do not know if anti-Goans who pervert the Constitution of India can be true Indians ...even if they get mistaken recognition as leaders like some smugglers who become Freedom Fighter pensioners by paying for a co-prisoner certificate in the 1970s as candidates pay for selection as PSI's or RTO inspectors now. How can one uphold the law with a stolen goose in hand or bank? Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:50:04 -0500 From: Jen Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Seminar-Symposium on RP 2021-16th Dec 2008-Hotel Nanutel Margao Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear all, Please find below an invitation from the Institution of Engineers (India) Goa local center to all its members, for a seminar/symposium on Goa Regional Plan 2021. The Government of Goa calls upon us as a body of Engineers to give our views on the Regional Plan. This seminar is meant to discuss and form our representation to the RP 2021. A copy of the regional plan is available at http://goagovt.nic.in/tcp/ . See you there, Regards, Dr.Jen = = = == Seminar on Tuesday 16th December at Hotel Nanutel Margao from 3:30PM to 8PM. (1) Presentation of the RP2021 document by Shri. S.T. Puttaraju, Senior Town Planner and Member of Task Force. 2. Question Hour to clarify any doubts 3. Recording of suggestions/ objections from members for compilation of the submission document. The Seminar is open to all members of the Institution. The Seminar will conclude with cocktails and dinner. PRAKASH BORKAR (Chairman) MARIA PEREIRA (Hon. Secretary) P.G. KANTAK (Convener, Civil Engineering Division) E. MONIZ (Convener, Civil Engineering Division) THOMAS D'COSTA (Convener,Civil Engineering Division) == Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID get [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up now! http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
[Goanet] Konkani adages: A long loin-cloth, an useless boast
Dear Rico, Laamb til naikanche, ghorant hal bailanche Longer the 'til' (vermillion line applied on forehead after morning puja) of the lords, greater the trouble for their wives at home The actual connotation of Bail in a Naik's house is generally about a Naikinn or external service provider also known as Kolvont, Rakhel or Thaylleli ...the woman ...other than one's wife ...who was kept at home by the Naik or Sawkar. This system was similar to the Devdasi system but without the elaborate dedication in the temple as at Soundatti or Yellapur till CM Gundu Rao had the guts to stop it by force [In 1980, even a lady Superintendent of Police was paraded nude while trying to prevent the practice. In 1981 Gundu Rao sent Armed Police in full riot gear and issued shoot at sight orders to finally stop the teribble practice of dedication once and for all times] There is a reason why the word laamb is used instead of vhoddlo to describe the Til or Tilak To translate that as mere harrassment of wife by an externally devout Hindu of a higher social bracket such as Naik or Lieutenant [as in Naik Hawaldar or Naik Subedar], is to forget history and context of the saying. Mor sundor, paiem kalle The peacock is beautiful but his legs are dark Would also translate as Even a beautiful peacock has black feet meaning metaphorically Even the apparently beautiful have something to hide. Literal translation hardly do justice to the beautiful sayings in Konkani. Morunk zai ieketch pavtti, toiar raunk sobar pavtti One must die but once, but be prepared all the time. That is the unfortunate truth for the brave. Cowards die a thousand times, anyway! ;-) I would also suggest that TSKK or GKA look at the orthography/spelling Perhaps the suggested correct spelling of once is yekech. Fr. Matthew Almeida sj's book Konkani Course in Roman Script available for Rs.250/- at Broadway Book Centre and the GKA book 'Methodology orf Writing Konkani in Roman script available at GKA at Patto, opposite Shyansundar Photo studio for Rs.20/- are good guides, even though they differ slightly on some issues. There is still some confusion ...but we are on the right track. The good news is that Daniel D'Souza's Konknni Martir Florian Vaz Puroskar winning book Koslich Malis Nastana not only won the KBM award this year, but has also gone into a revised edition. This is something rare in Konkani publication [other than text books and orthography] . in any script !! Having said that, it is really wonderful that Valmiki Faleiro is documenting some of the sayings that may otherwise be lost to posterity. Great job in itself. I hope we can help to make it better. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:57:47 +0530 From: Frederick \FN\ Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Konkani adages: A long loin-cloth, an useless boast Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Laamb til naikanche, ghorant hal bailanche Longer the 'til' (vermillion line applied on forehead after morning puja) of the lords, greater the trouble for their wives at home Morunk zai ieketch pavtti, toiar raunk sobar pavtti One must die but once, but be prepared all the time Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
[Goanet] Coast Guard, Goa cops: Same difference to terrorists!
Dears, The rich and the powerful think they can get off with anything and everything. It is time Admiral Suresh Mehta realises it is not so simple. It is time the NDTV also gives some respect to privacy and act less condescending about the poor policemen who , like Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade died when they were sent in to face an enemy they were not prepare or trained for. One funny thing is that, Dr. Jack de Sequeira, the Father of the Opinion Poll raised daughters who had rather poor opinion of Goan boys: not one married a Niz Goykar. The only parallel that I can think of is Mummy Victoria and Rudolf of Goa Protectors fame who have similar non-Goan in-laws. Asking questions is considered stupid. We even admonish children when they ask questions while we perpetuate the Emperor's clothes scenario. If you see the naked truth, you are dumb! Thankfully, Amitav Ghosh, Anil Dharkar [both in TOI of 5/12/2008], Dr. Teotonio de Souza [Herald 6/12/08] and others have begun asking questions. Otherwise the likes of Soter D'Souza, Adv. Jatin Naik or Miguel Braganza would be considered as unmitigated dolts. Mog asundi Miguel Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: ECONOMIC TIMES: Coast Guard let off Kuber after terrorists gave fake I-cards http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Coast_Guard_let_off_ Kuber_after_terrorists_gave_fake_I-cards/articleshow/3786023.cms INDIAN EXPRESS: Navy Chief fumes at media, gets facts wrong http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Navy-Chief-fumes-at-media--gets-facts-wron g/393869 INDIAN EXPRESS: Navy chief upset with electronic media http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Navy-Chief-fumes-at-media--gets-facts-wrong/393869 THE HINDU: Systemic failure: Navy Chief http://www.hindu.com/2008/12/03/stories/2008120355221000.htm VOANEWS: Indian Maritime Forces Rebuff Criticism in Wake of Mumbai Attack http://voanews.com/english/2008-12-02-voa16.cfm PTI: Navy within law to sink pirated ship: Mehta http://www.ptinews.com/pti\ptisite.nsf/0/900D5013CC4E00EB65257513004962F4?Op enDocument INDIAN EXPRESS: Antony pulls up Navy Chief, asks to explain security lapse http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Antony-pulls-up-Navy-Chief--asks-to-explain-security-lapse/392984 INDIAN EXPRESS: Sideshow: Navy, Army publicity hunt http://www.indianexpress.com/news/sideshow-navy-army-publicity-hunt/392034/ SOME HIGHLIGHTS (Express' view): A day after he lashed out at the media at the annual Navy briefing, calling it a 'disabling factor' and accusing a leading television channel of causing casualties during the Kargil war, Admiral Sureesh Mehta once again showed his disdain for the media at the Navy Day ceremony. The Admiral when approached by mediapersons after the ceremony said I don't talk to fools and left the venue. Senior Defence Ministry officials described the Admiral's comments as 'unfortunate' and 'uncalled for'. Such ranting is uncalled for. He should have exercised restraint. There are other ways of tackling the situation, a senior official said. Meanwhile, NDTV has demanded a public apology from the Navy chief for his charge that the death of three jawans during the Kargil conflict was caused due to coverage by the channel. The Navy is believed to have replied that the comments were made on the basis of a story on a little known TV channel and an internet blog. CHECK BARKHA DUTT'S RESPONSE to criticism on Facebook and Orkut: Finally, I would like to point out that the Navy Chief made a factually incorrect and wholly untrue comment on NDTV's coverage during the Kargil conflict of 1999, claiming that NDTV asked for a gun to be triggered for the benefit of the camera. I want to state for the record: no such incident ever took place and we have an official aknowledgment of that, including from then Army Chief, V.P Malik. I would urge Admiral Mehta to read General V.P Malik's book on Kargil for further clarity. General Malik was the Army Chief during the operations and puts to rest any such controversy in his book. In a formal letter, NDTV has also asked for an immediate retraction from the Navy and officially complained that the comments amount to defamation. Several writers have already pointed out how the Navy Chief has got his facts wrong. (DNA, Indian Express, Vir Sanghvi in The Hindustan Times, Sankarshan Thakur in The Telegraph). This, incidentally, was the same press conference where the Admiral threatened literally to chop the heads off of two other reporters who aired his interview ahead of schedule. http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/mumbaiterrorstrike/Story.aspx?ID=COLEN2 0080075194type=opinion -- FN * Independent Journalist http://fn.goa-india.org M: +91-9822122436 P: +91-832-2409490 Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID get [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up now! http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
[Goanet] DRP 2021 explained by GBA at Ponguinim on 07/12/2008
Canaconkars understand DRP 2021 better with inputs from GBA The villagers of Poinguinim , Cotigao and nearby villages between the Talpona and Galgibag rivers in coastal Canacona interacted with the GBA team consisting of GBA Co-Convener, Secretary and Joint Secretary along with the technical expert, Architect Dean D’Cruz, Member of the State Level Committee on DRP 2021 and earlier on the Task Force [both chaired by the Chief Minister of Goa], who is an active member of the GBA Core Group. Leroy Veloso, the point man at the GBA office in Porvorim, rendered valuable support in conducting the exhibition and the presentation. The interaction consisted of three parts dove-tailed together: 1. a presentation by GBA Secretary, Ms. Reboni Saha, on how to read a plan and what to look for in the draft Village Plan given to each Panchayat on 22 November, 2008, 2. an exhibition of the DRP 2021 Plan for South Goa district [Map B2], map for Canacona taluka [Map D5] and maps for Ponguinim village in DRP 2021 and RP 2011, both enlarged from the taluka maps and overlaid with Survey boundaries as well as a Digital Globe image of Poinguinim from the internet and 3. interaction with the participants, from the villages and GBA team. The village panchayats have the all important VILLAGE PLANS under DRP 2021, which were prepared AFTER the Task Force was wound up in mid-September, 2008 and the Town Country Planning Dept. took over the responsibility of preparing the plans, ostensibly as decided by the Task Force. Therein lies the catch. The true colours are literally showing in the village plans. The villagers took the enlarged image of the village Poinguinim from the Taluka Plans [Map D5] for comparison with the Village Plan officially given to their Panchayat in the TCP kit that is being expalined by the TLTTs these days in each Taluka. [Bardez, Pernem, Tiswadi and Ponda have been covered so far] Arch Dean D'Cruz, Sabina Martins and Miguel Braganza spoke on the PARTICIPATORY Planning Process and how the Draft Regional Plan 2021 can be the basis of proceeding further as per the Constitution of India in the light of Article 243 after the 73rd and 74th amendments Some residents from Shellim-Loliem had also come for the interaction, armed with a petition opposing the change in zone of the seafront plot under survey No. 330/1 of Loliem village. It is their ardent plea that no one should be allowed to violate CRZ rules by cutting trees and building sheds with 200 metres of HTL as well as sinking four bore wells without NOC of the Panchayat. No it is not a “hotel” project but rather a residential rent-back facility. If you want to know the difference between the two ask the TTAG or TCP Dept. The participants are obviously happy with the interaction. Next Sunday morning [14 December]the GBA Team has been invited to do a presentation at Burmar in Karaxir Moll ward of Agonda village in Canancona for the villagers of Agonda and Kholla. The Aldona Bachao Abhiyan is hosting an interaction in Aldona the same day. Earlier, there was a request from Prasad Shahapurkar to have similar presentations in Mandrem and Kerim village panchayats as the people are greatly troubled by the golf course that appears in their village plan at Terekhol. Prasad was one of the first persons to organize a protest meeting at Mandrem market in Pernem taluka against the now revoked RP 2011 on 24 December, 2006, less than a week after the public launch of GBA at Azad Maidan on 18 December. From Terekhol to Palolem, the people are awakening again. The same restlessness that led to the revocation of RP 2011 is being felt. Republic Day is coming up. The first line of preamble to the Constitution of India that came into force on 26 January, 1950 reads thus: “We, the People of India, solemnly….” The Republic is coming of age in the 25th state of the Indian Union: Goa. Mog asundi Miguel Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/
Re: [Goanet] GOA State Police Complaints Authority - Chairman involved in accident
Dears, All my growing up years till age 18 years, I have lived next to a steep gradient on the then NH-17 at Mapusa and have witnessed many a gory accident due to brake failure,driver's inability to shift gears shiftly enough to avoid the fatal back-slide in neutral or sheer reckless driving. Fotunately, I have not lost someone close to a traffic accident as Mr. John Eric Gomes has borne the loss of a teenaged son. I have, however, picked up many a person run over by vehicles, the worst being a boy at Mulgao run over by a mini-bus who died in my arms after first aid at the Bicholim cottage hospital, which had neither doctors nor equipment to handle the traumatic child of about six years. There I was, sitting helplessly with jeans and shirt soaked in the blood of a child unknown to me but nonetheless a precious life as any of my own blood. One should not rule out complicity till one has verified. Murders look more like accidents than real accidents. They are meticulously planned to look that way. The recent example is the accidental death of the Matka King. If the CBI case about 20 something years old Sister Abhaya's death is anything to go by, even priests and nuns are capable of well executed murders that look like suicides or accidental deaths. Cops are much more hardened than priests and nuns. Adv. Aires Rodrigues made a huge hue and cry about Fr. Newton fondling the breast of a 14 year old girl in Ribander and the press lapped it. One married woman in Porvorin says the Police Inspector, while on duty and at the Police station, grabbed her breast in the presence of her husband who had gone to lodge a complaint of assault on her. It made a small mention in one Marathi newspaper. Former ADC to the Governor of Goa is the SP who shares the same premises and controls this Police Inspector. The death of Mrs. Thelma Pinto e Santana Silva and the injury of Justice [Retd] Eurico da Santana Silva should preferably be investigated by the CBI to rule out the possibility of Police complicity in the death. If they can beat up an MLA and a Zilla Panchayat member in full public view, the Goa Police can do anything. Or have we forgotten 19 February, 2008 already?? As head of the Goa SPCA for cops, Justice [Retd] Eurico Santana Silva has hauled up many cops, including Superintendents of the Police and, if I recall right, even their higher ups. They do not exactly love him. If the Goa Police is innocent, the CBI probe will certify that. So where is the cause to fear. Let the truth be known .unambiguously. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:52:52 -0500 From: John Gomes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] GOA State Police Authority - Chairman involved inaccident Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Since 1988 when I lost my teenaged son in a road accident,I tried everything, PILs, call on CMs,DG Police,Traffic SPs, Collectors, RTOs, Chief Secretaries, NGos . I found good suggestions cannot be implemented, cockeyed political ideas prevail, and what we have now is madness on the roads. ..JEG -- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 17:54:03 -0500 From: Ruben Quadros [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm a close member of the extended family. Appreciate your views but the accident was just an accident and not on purpose. Let's not give rise to any doubts in the minds of group members. Ruben Quadros -- Get rid of Add-Ons in your email ID. Get [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sign up now! http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
[Goanet] Can we Walk the Talk? or Are we just a set of Walky-Talkies?
Dears, This forward by Ruben to Vascokars United hits the nail on its head. Everyone wants everybody else to do things for him. One only needs to watch the NDTV show by Srinivasan Jain to know how condescending the affluent self-appointed elite can get! Mumbai Terror ...and that at Taj and Oberoi Trident ...get the prime slots. The Nariman House is of peripheral interest because it had Israeli and USA connections and Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus [CST] does not even enter the camera frame except for glimpses of the terrorist who was caught. The poor can die. It does not matter. Khandhamal, Guwahati, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad? Most of us do not even know where they are ...and if we do, who cares? SUBVERSE Terrorised by TV by Anil Dharkar on Edit page 8 in the Times of India today [5/12/08] says it all. If one needs further reminder, than the Goa-based, Booker Prize nominee, Amitav Ghosh, says it in India's 9/11? Not exactly on page 9. It is no different when it comes to fighting against the Regional Plan for Goa 2021, which seeks to subvert the Constitution of India !!! Elitism is a goal in itself. All the others are cannon fodder for the greater glory of the greatest class . of hypocrites!! Mog asundi, Miguel --- On Fri, 5/12/08, Ruben Quadros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: [VascokarsUnited] Interesting To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, 5 December, 2008, 10:33 AM This is a report from a friend of mine who was physically present at a rally outside the Gateway of India post the Mumbai attacks. Interesting reading on why we are the way we are . . . . . No other race in the world can beat us at one thing - Expecting others to do what we can . . . .. and complaining if it is not done. Jai Hind! Ruben. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hi, Was there at gateway... i guess the Indian youth have become masters in mental masturbation. ... or we are all CEO's... i.e we know how to give direction to others ( and when it comes to implement... ahem...) ... Mumbai wanted 3200 bottles of blood..on thursday it took 60 hrs to gather it. and Nariman point itself has 4 lac people working... we should have been able to rustle that quantity in minutes... 100 bottles of blood came from Hyderabad... .and yesterday all youngsters decked up were shouting slogans. Pakistan murdabad.. etc politicians chor hai in a public forum i participated. ... we had some young guys saying we should attack Pakistan I just asked... ( all were 23-28 years old guys) how many of you have even thought of joining army? there was a silence and humming and hawing... i asked an old man... why did you not send your son to army... he didn't have any answer... i just asked... how many of you donated blood in the last 3 days a deafening silence they all want some other guys to storm Pakistan and lay down their lives... but I, or my relatives... well no way we'll do that any guesses as to who is a bigger threat to India... we ourselves... or Pakistan?.. Another joker..a prominent Goan...another archair intellectual. .. said haughtily... name me one politician in India who is not corrupt. an elderly man replied/none. .. we should sack all politicians was his rejoinder... upon being asked what after that no reply how do we clean politics no reply. the elderly man said if you don't have ability to carry multiple people with you... and mobilise people to support you. don't give frivolous views. that elderly mans suggestion was... get some honest candidates.. .. get them to stand for elections... start from corporator level... and then clean the system...yourself. ..because. ... people get the government and society they deserve the elderly man hails from Nuvem and has been a Bandra-ite for over 60 years.. and his nephew has got elected as a Corporator.. . he said... cleaning up system is a 10 year job be prepared for a long trudgeparticipate or you don't have a right to whine and complain like a kid... it struck me that somewhere... we are all failing in our duty as citizens and blaming the system. and everybody else but ourselves. Get your own website and domain for just Rs.1,999/year.* Go to http://in.business.yahoo.com/
[Goanet] Why should this not be the answer!!
Dear Dr. Barad, The Prime Minister of India is Dr. Manmohan Singh and the Home Minister is Mr. P. Chidambaram, both Congress MPs. The Chief Minister of Delhi was Ms. Sheila Dixit, also a Congress lady, and most likely she will be CM again as the BJP was hardly to be seen in Delhi on 29 November, 2008, the election day. I was in Delhi. The President of India was not unduly interested in hanging Afzal. If he was, he could have called for the file. He might not have got it, but at least theoretically he caould call for it as old King Cole called for hislute, pipes and his fiddlers three! If that be the case , why do you expect Marshall to execute the Supreme Court order? Do not let his name Marshall mislead you into believe he is some kind of enforcement officer between Air Chief Marshall and the Railwy yard marshall. that is just his name! ;-) May be you should file a contempt of Court against the Government of India, the President and others of your choice. Digu-bab has heard you on Goa University ...and even forgotten to demand for a separate Central University as his other Committees had suggested!! Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:53:01 +0530 From: Dr. U. G. Barad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Why should this not be the answer!! To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To read what our respected ex President A P J Abdul Kalam had said, on his last day as President of India, click the link provided: http://indiaabroad.com/news/2007/jul/27parl.htm Under directives of Soniamia, UPA Home Ministry preferred to send the file to Delhi government under a pretext that the petition requires the views of the state where the crime has occurred. And Delhi government, again under instructions of Soniamia, till date, is seen not in any hurry to convey its view on the file/case. Finally, one question to our brilliant Marshall: Now tell me whether Afzal should be hanged or UPA government? Marshall, study the case and come back to this forum again. Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
Re: [Goanet] Say-I dont want to vote... may be a good option for the dumbos.
Dears, The first and most important lesson to learn is this: WIKIPEDIA IS ONLY INDICATIVE. It is not necessarily the Truth. The specific point to be noted here is that one can go to the polling booth, get oneself identified as a voter, be marked with indelible ink, collect the 'ballot paper' [or, in the case of EVM, the 'polling slip' to be given to the Presiding Officer for release of the voting key of the EVM] and after all the process, refuse to vote. It is perfectly legal exercise of Rule 49-O [Forty-nine Oh , not Zero] of Election Rules under the Representation of the People Act in India. No one hides that law or rule. Very few exercise this rule, knowingly or unknowingly [often leaving the Presiding Officer sweating, if he or she does not know 49-0 either!]. The Presiding Officer puts these details in a separate envelope [with the relevant ballot or slip] and writes it in his diary of election and the Statistics of votes polled sheet. That is all. Rule 49-O in an exercise in futility ...not glamourous as my friend Ethel or others make it out to be. One cannot FORCE RE-POLL by exercising Rule 49-0. The parallel to that can be found in Bollywood films where the heroine is stood up by some vain dude and she marries her childhood love. In the case of a catholic marriage, the bride may end up marrying the Best Man if the Groom develops cold feet at the altar as some voters do at the Polling cubicle or compartment [generally a table with a card board enclosure on the top] where the EVM or the ballot paper is to be marked as per one's choice .or lack of it. In the good old days some people simple stamped the table and inserted a BLANK ballot paper. That option is no longer there with the EVM ...the Electronic Voting Machine that even an illiterate person who is politically savvy uses in an impoverished India, but is yet to make its presence felt in USA ...except in Sci-Fi movies! In any case, most of those who discuss Rule 49-0 are those who have NEVER VOTED in their entire life time thus far and are unlikely to stand in a queue for two or three hours to foolishly tell the Presiding Officer that they will NOT vote. The Presiding Officer cannot allow anyone to make a speech in the Polling Booth ...not even the candidates in the election so the question of making a statement does not arise, save a fashion statement. Even then, one has to go decently dressed to vote, or one can be arrested for indecent exposure under routine Cr. P.C. sections on public morality. I know this because I have served as a Presiding Officer for elections for Parliament, Assembly, Municipality and Panchayat between 1983 and 1996. The only elections I have not helped conduct are Zilla Panchayats [or ZP] as these came in later ...after rules were framed under the Goa Panchayati Raj Act, 1994, and constituencies were delimited for ZP members. However, the same rules apply. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:29:03 +0530 From: Frederick Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Say-I dont want to vote... may be a good option show anger against politician Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This isn't true! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49-O SHRIKANT BARVE wrote: THE CONDUCT OF ELECTIONS RULES, 1961 http://lawmin.nic.in/ld/subord/cer1.htm 49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.- If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] JP's swan song ......The Lying kind ?
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[Goanet] GBA to facilitate People's understanding of Regional Plan 2021
GBA to facilitate People's understanding of Regional Plan 2021 An interactive meeting on Participatory Village Level Planning is being facilitated by the Goa Bachao Abhiyan with Mr. Vinod Kumar from Maitri-Kerala, as the resource person. Members of the GBA Core Group and Taluka Coordinators will attend and participate in the deliberations. Members of Village Committees and others interested in understanding planning are welcome to attend by prior registration. Please reply to GBA office [EMAIL PROTECTED], or SMS, phone on 9767701245 to reserve a seat as space may be a constraint. The meeting will be held from 4.00 P.M. on Saturday 13 December, 2008 at Institute Piedade hall, Near State Bank of India, Panaji.[entrance near Cafe Coffee Day and Bread More, adjoining Virani Sales Corporation] If the number of participants is more, a bigger space and more chairs will need to be arranged. Please confirm by 11 December, 2008, so that arrangements can be made. Mr. Vinod Kumar has done Post Graduate studies in Local Administration and has been involved with Village, District and Perspective Planning for the State of Kerala for the last ten years. He will be bringing along plans prepared through people's participation and implemented in Kerala after the passage of the 73rd and 74 th amendments to the Constitution of India. Those who would like to interact with him are requested to do so by appointment prior to the meeting. He will not be available for consultation after the meeting. The above is the official message. The note below is only indicative nothing official about it. It is proposed to have the meeting structured with a brief presentation of DRP 2021 maps and plans followed by the Keynote address by Mr. Vinod of Maitri [30 minutes] and a Question and Answer Session. The proceedings will be summed up before the adoption of resolutions on the way forward. Time is the essence. Please be on time at 4.00 P.M. An exhibition containing. Taluka level plans as per DRP 2021 of each of the eleven talukas and corresponding Google/ Digital Globe image will be set up, if possible. Participants who have obtained copies of DRP 2021, village maps, etc either by application or through RTI are requested to bring the copies along for discussion and sharing with others. The DRP 2021 Village Plans are quite indicative of what type of land is available and to what uses it can be put. It is for the people to decide on the final land use pattern for their villages in the next five to dozen years. We hope that the interaction will neither lay waste the work put in by the Task Forcenor the land that we love, Goa. This interaction is FACILITATED by the GBA to help reach a common understanding of the WAY FORWARD. The time to score Brownie points is over. It is a time to come together. Together Everyone Achieves More. Let that be our T.E.A.M. spirit. Feedback is solicited. Mog asundi Miguel -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] JP's swan song ......The Lying kind?
Dears, Close on heels of the news report in the NT [see clip below]of two fishing trawlers being intercepted by the Coast Guard/MPT and/or Coastal Police at Marmagoa Harbour, comes a report filed by my pretty debonaire friend in the ToI that is headlined Stop watersport activities by sunset:Police to operators followed by a TNN follow-up on the CS-gate that is titled There's hardly any reserve force in Goa. that informs us that even security of the Goa Governor [and former ICAO General Secretary] S.S. Sidhu, has already been outsourced to the CISF . as if Goa's Raj Bhavan was an industrial establishment [CISF = Central Industrial Security Force]. Two more companies of CISF have been requisitioned to bolster the two guarding our Dabolim airport and dear Governor, on either side of the Zuari river. In the meanwhile the USA, notably Ms. Condoleeza Rice, has stirred up the Pakistani curry with big piranha and barracuda-like fish being netted in Muzzafarabad's murky waters. All efforts are being made to clean up the waters of the Arabain Sea and the terror-tainted air above. On the festive day of Bakra Id today comes the story in the GT headlined Security beefed up for foreign tourists.starred hotels. Therein lies the tail of this story in which the tail wags the dog. GT report reads thus:The Mormugao PI, Sagar Ekoskar,informed that two American ships which arrived at Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) with 1300 American crew in goa were given police protectionfrom the time of arrival. A total of 10 police guards and armed personnel accompanied the Americans during their tour on Monday in Goa. Two things are clear: 1. The Goa Police Force is woefully stretched ...ten men to protect 1300 sailors and airmen on shore leave. 2. The US Sevent Fleet is here in Goa for Repairs and Refitting while the sailors head for Rest and Recuperation and the Goans learn to Rock and Roll. Did I hear a whoop? R, R Maha Dave! Let's sing The Al Qaeda does not know to Rock Roll to the tune of a similarly titled song in Goa. Happy C.S. ta! Mog asundi Miguel Coastal police intercept two fishing trawlers NT NETWORK Posted on 2008-12-05 VASCO Ensuring that no stone remains unturned in view of the security aspect in the coastal belt of Mormugao, the MPT, central industrial security force, Harbour Coastal Police, Mormugao police and Vasco police in a joint operation, intercepted a fishing trawler from Alleppy, Kerala on Thursday, and have booked the crew onboard, on suspicion and failing to produce identity cards. Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 22:23:32 -0800 From: Miguel Braganza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] JP's swan song ..The Lying kind ? Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Dears, The front page news reports in today's newspapers in Goa have just stopped short of calling the Chief Secretary of Goa a Liar. That is the truth! If there is no Al Qaida terror threat to Goa, the Chief Secretary's note to the Cabinet Ministers, including the CM, is a deliberate attempt to mislead the Government ...officialese for a WHITE LIE. Secret Cabinet note warns of Qaida threat 8 Dec 2008, 0152 hrs IST, TNN PANAJI: The note (No. 1/13/2003-HD(G)/PF2), which was marked secret, states at item no 3 (a), Today Goa faces serious threat from terrorists and there were specific inputs that Al-Quada (sic) would target certain installation/target in Goa. The state of Goa has a vast coastline of 105 km, which has major sea posts and famous beaches. The note was signed by Singh. Get an email ID as [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Click here http://in.promos.yahoo.com/address
[Goanet] Old practice as a new Science.
Dears, Close on heels of what Dr. Anthony da Silva SJ, Jesuit Provincial of Goa said at the Principal Eduardo Soares Memorial lecture at St. Thomas HSS, Aldona, on Sunday 07 December, 2008, is this discussion that shows how ineffective corporal punishment is in bringing about desired change in behaviour. Dr Anthony da Silva SJ studied Philosophy in Munich-Germany and completed his doctorate in Psychology from University of Michigan-USA. His students are Pricipals and Headmasters of many institutions and the success of corporal punishment-free institutions has only to be seen. Belief comes immediately. Threat of punishment cannot achieve half of what love and consideration can. India and Pakistan are beginning to learn this, it seems, in dealing with terrorists. Both Asif Zardari and Sonia Gandhi have lost their spouses to terrorists. They know better than to fight terror with terror. If one of the advoctes of corporal punishment is made to kneel down on sand for an error of judgement, he or she will immediately see the other point of view. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 07:47:27 -0800 (PST) From: Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Old Practice as New Science Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- On Mon, 12/8/08, Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Threat of Punishment Works, Study Suggests http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081204/sc_livescience/threatofpunishmentworksstudysuggests Corporal punishment is not only found to be ineffective in children, but it has been shown to have deleterious effects on subsequent behavior. This form of disciplining has been banned in public and Catholic schools in 102 countries across the world. Here is an American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement on banning of corporal punishment in school children: http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics%3b106/2/343 Santosh Connect with friends all over the world. Get Yahoo! India Messenger at http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/?wm=n/
[Goanet] Money makes sense ....worldwide
lawmaker Senator Robert Menendez, Chairman of the subcommittee on foreign assistance, also called for ending aid to the countries which are unwilling to fight terrorism in their own territories. After several Indian community leaders made passionate speeches, Menendez said he would bring their view as also the fact the interests of India and the United States coincide so far fighting terrorism is concerned to the attention of the lawmakers. Expressing their full support to whatever steps the Indian government takes, the community leaders called for strong measures to fight terrorism and warning Pakistan in no uncertain term that New Delhi would not tolerate terrorist planning attacks on India from its soil. On their part, they pledged to continue to lobby with lawmakers to keep a steady pressure on Pakistan to take urgent steps to fight terrorists on its territory and linking aid to its successes in reining in terrorists. Stressing the need for the United States to put more pressure on Pakistan, Pallone said it is essentially a failed state as the central government does not control most of the territory. It is clear that even when it outlaws an organization, it continues to work through agitations, madrassas (religious schools) and social activities, Pallone underlined. He said if they (terror group) continue to exist by providing educational opportunities and social services, the Pakistan government has to go there and provide those services and not let these groups do the job. From the Indian perspective, Pallone said the most important lesson is to work with US and other countries to step up their security. That means sharing intelligence about terrorist cells, increasing cooperation among law enforcement agencies and knowhow on dealing with such situations, he said. Paying tribute to India for being model of cooperation and religious tolerance, he decried the efforts of the terrorists to pose as if they are Indian Muslims. The Congressman from New Jersey also advised foreigners planning to visit India against postponing their trip. They should not allow terrorists instill fear in them, he added. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] 2ND DAY MANDO FESTIVAL A ROUSING SUCCESS
Dears, The Mando festival has ended, but not before adding current affairs and political satire to the realm of song! Utorda-Majorda-Calata has been the non-formal university for bakery in Goa. The “Harmonizers’ Chorus” of Utorda, led by Mr. Alvaro de Assumcao Pereira, had its Mando focused on inflation and consumer price index, starting with the daily bread. “Ponk-ponk, ponk korun Goycho poder yeta. Don rupiancho panv ek gansak veta. Tin rupiam panv zanvcho asa mhunn sogleak bobat zata. Poder panv tuge naka, ami bakri korun khatanv!” [this roughly translates as The baker honks each morn. One bite and the two-rupees loaf is gone. Rumour is that the loaf will soon cost Rs.3/-. Mr. Baker, keep your loaves, I will eat chapati!]The reduced size of the loaf on the eve of a price hike makes the consumers remember the good old chapatti or bakri. According to Godfrey, they picked the top prize. The Goenchem Noketram [Goan Stars]from Sarzora, led by Chemistry Lecturer from PES College Marianella Gina Dias, were also very good and first prize winners in the Original Mando category last year. Teaching and non-teaching staff of St.Xavier's HSS, Mapusa, made their debut in the Mando Festival under the leadership of their new Principal Elvis Gonsalves. In October, 2008, I was in the Malaysian state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. It felt like Goa, with a beach resort, river ferry, cruise boats, Ale-bele, Dodol and a mix of English, Spanish and Portuguese music along with the local music accompanied by the Sape, a guitar-like instrument. What the Singaporeans call a “sarong” is known locally as the “Baju Melayu” or just “Baju”. It is worn by both men and women. So, there are no prizes for guessing where the “Pan-Baju” or “Baju-Toddo” originated from. If one still harbours doubts, the commonality of the hair style with quill-like adornment and the Borneo music will dispel them. Read more about it in the GT tomorrow [Friday] and on Goanet thereafter. Mog asundi Miguel Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:56:38 +0530 (IST) From: godfrey gonsalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] 2ND DAY MANDO FESTIVAL A ROUSING SUCCESS Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] He was also not too happy with the present Minister for Culture who incidentally is the Chief Minister of Goa who he feels was paying mere lip sympathy to appease the Catholic vote bank. Not that the earlier Ministers were any better.His actions reveal contrary to what he speaks he warned this writer and pleaded to do some probing to confirm his point. Today it was the turn of Mr Elvis Gomes Director of Tourism to do the honours while the others Minister for PWD and Salcete strongman and the Director of Art and Culture Mr Prasad Lolayekar still on their way according to the compere Dr Ghanekar at the time of filing this report. Mando AWARD to Harmonizers Chorus of Utorda ; also won 1st prize winners of the Senior Group Original and Traditional category Childrens Group 1st prize Mercechim Sobit Fulam Merces Teenagers Dance Group 1st prize Merces Firgojecho Saad Merces Senior Citizens 1st Prize Porvorim Noketram Porvorim from the Dinanath Mangueskar auditorium, GODFREY J I GONSALVES BORDA MARGAO 9822158584 (24 HRS) Add more friends to your messenger and enjoy! Go to http://messenger.yahoo.com/invite/
[Goanet] Panaji Mayor inaugurates 9th Plant Utsav
* * * 2006 ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET - GOA * * * WHERE: Foodland Cafe - Miramar Residency - Miramar, Goa WHEN: December 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm More info: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051398.html PANAJI MAYOR INAUGURATES NINTH PLANT UTSAV Tony Rodrigues, the Mayor of the Corporation of the City of Panaji, inaugurated the ninth annual festival of plants known as the PLANT UTSAV led by the Botanical Society of Goa. This is the fifth year the event is being held at the Municipal Garden named after the famous Botanist, Garcia da Orta, who had worked on documenting the plants in Goa. The Mayor then went round the competition entries and the stall of leading nurserymen like Mr.Farmer, Vikas Nursery, East-West Nursery and Mathew's Orchids. The College of Ayurveda, Shiroda, has put up a display of medicinal plants and its students are demonstrating the preparations of Ayuvedic medicines, led by BSG member, Suvarna Fonseca-Antao. The potted plants were judged by a team of experts led by BSG member and leading landscaper, Mr.Ashok Dande, from Taleigao. the winning entries are from Mr. Nicholas Sequeira, Saligao [Begonias, Crotons Gerbera and Anthuriums], Mr.M. R.Naik, Sangolda [ Anthuriums, Alocasia] , Mr.C.K.Matthew, Goa Velha [Orchids and Cacti], Mr. Mahesh Kankonkar. Karmali [Arborics] and Mr.Neil Braganza, Caranzalem [Miniature plants]. the second and third place for Cacti were taken by Jose D'Souza of Pilerne and Indirabai Netravalcar from Bambolim. The PLANT UTSAV has been held at short notice this year due to non availability of the venue because of proposed upgradation works of the garden prior to IFFI. The participation level is lower than in the previous year. Still it is a great event for the plant lovers and the nurserymen have been making brisk sales. The powered lawn mowers, including a ride-on stadium or golf course type of lawn mower costing a few lakh rupees are an added attraction. There will be a fruit eating competition on Saturday morning. The participants have to bring bananas or watermelon or both and will be judged for the weight of fruit they can eat in one minute. There will be a flower arrangement competition in the afternoon at three P.M. Call Christina 9822124032 or Miguel 9822982676 for details. The certificates and prizes will be distributed by Mr. P.P.Kumbhare, Director of Agriculture, on Sunday at 5.00 P.M. the Directorate is organising a Krishi Utsav at Ponda in January, 2007, where the BSG will participate. Together Everyone Achieves More. That is the T.E.A.M. spirit with which the BSG works. Due to paucity of time, this is the first year in which the Government Departments could not be involved in the PLANT UTSAV an annual feature since 1998. Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa President BSG. Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Organisations gear up for anti-regional plan rally
* * * 2006 ANNUAL GOANETTERS MEET - GOA * * * WHERE: Foodland Cafe - Miramar Residency - Miramar, Goa WHEN: December 21, 2006 @ 4:00pm More info: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2006-December/051398.html Organisations gear up for anti-regional plan rally NT Staff Reporter Panaji, Dec 16: The opposition to the Regional Plan 2011 is building up with political parties, religious leaders, intellectuals and professionals, besides non-government organisations joining their hands against the controversial public document valid for a period of 10 years from 2001 to 2011. 'Save Goa', which spearheads the agitation against the plan has organised a public rally on December 18, at 3 p.m, at Azad Maidan, for allowing the public to voice their opposition to the particular document. The convenor of 'Save Goa', Dr Oscar Rebello has appealed to all the organisations - social and religious, all political parties, students unions, tiatrists, various communities from Goa, artists, activists, the media, the Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industries, and every Goan to lend their helping hand and provide the moral support to fight against the plan. SOURCE: http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=121715
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Mr. Goanese, please stand up
Mr. Goanese, please stand up. Put your foot down firmly, now! Once there were beaches kissed by the sun, now one does not know whose son is kissing whom on the beach beds by night. Once it was possible to wade in ankle deep water on the beach while the children built sand castles and did their own version of sand sculptures, now the touts for the beach beds shoo you off. Once this was our own land, today it is still our land but we are treated like strangers. Konkani and Marathi have no currency; one has to learn Hindi, Rumani/Lamani or Kannada to survive. What will happen tomorrow when almost all land is sold under the Regional Plan 2011? What happens to siblings when the elder brother pimps for his mother or elder sister? Goenkara, you are already Goanese; soon the Goan will be gone! Writes Dr. Oscar Rebello, fellow columnist in GT and Convenor of the Save Goa Campaign whose letter of appeal I will blatantly plagiarize, Goa, today is at the crossroads of her very existence. Her soul;Her identity and Her beauty is being mercilessly sold off, all for the petty gains of a petty few, in the guise of the monstrous, evasive and sinister: Goa Regional Plan 2011.Besides the calamitous destruction of Goa's natural beauty, her culture and her heritage, we are set to witness an unprecedented social disaster if mega 5 star projects like townships, condominiums, golf courses, resorts, etc. take root in our precious land. I am sure Dr. Oscar Rebello will not mind the plagiarisation. In fact, I suspect he will be happy that I have done that. Imitation is, after all is said and done, the sincerest form of flattery. I am sincere. I am also imitating him and going to Azad Maidan on 18 December at 3.00 P.M. In fact, I think I can beat him to it at report at Café Prakash near Azad Maidan at 2.00 P.M. The rumour mill has it that they are putting just a few chairs and as the current President of the Botanical Society of Goa, I should not be seen standing when he is not addressing the gathering. Lok kya kahenge? So I am going to be there first. Most of us have this experience in booking a spot in the line for our children's admission in to a good school. I am doing this for my continuation in India's No.1 State. Well worth it, wouldn't you agree? Time is short to say what I have in mind, so I will continue to plagiarize. Doctor's thoughts and words make me feel like exclaiming That's exactly what I was going to say! So in Doctor's borrowed words, The 'Regional Plan 2011' must not be seen as merely a dishonour to our Mother Goa or a desecration of our ancestral land or the defilement of Parshuram's legendary arrow struck across the Sahyadris. These views are benignly romantic. It must be seen for what it truly is. The savage and brutal assault,rape and murder of our daughter. If we do not have the guts to protect our daughters, we really will have no soil left to bury our heads in shame. See, I told you, they are just what I wanted to say. If you do not believe me read the first paragraph all over again. What options do we have? To register our horrified indignation and loudly declare our protest at this agonizing destruction of our land, we plan to organise a massive public rally on December 18, 2006 at 3.00 pm at Azad Maidan, Panjim to liberate ourselves and free Goa from this tyrannical Regional Plan 2011. Writes the dotor. The world stands in need of liberation. Again. Visit www.savegoa.com and get connected to the movement that has already begun. Almost everyone, his aunt and her dog are coming to Azad Maidan on 18 December, 2006. It is a peaceful protest with a single point agenda: Withdraw the Regional Plan 2011. We need to Save Goa till our leaders and legislatures can see beyond their noses and consult the experts if they are unable to think. If the bureaucrats do not provide the necessary information, it is not as if the politicians do not know what to do with them. They have been doing that umpteen times already. Passing the buck and transferring officials in Government is as common a game as 'passing the parcel is at children's parties. So, if the Forest Department did not give advice, did the Minister not know how to get it? Chief Secretaries of Goa have been shunted out for smaller offences perceived by the political bosses. So will someone tell us something new? Till the answers are forthcoming, be an Azad Panchi and be at Azad maidan on the eve of Liberation Day. On 17 December, 1961 no one in Goa really believed they would be free from 451 years of colonial rule. They were. It did not even take a General. A Lieutenant Colonel managed it all. So, why should one think Dr. Oscar Rebello cannot do an encore? Not everyone need to be a martyr like young Floriano Vaz who died for Konkani on 20 December, 1986 or like Nilesh Naik who died to save our environment from Nylon 66 on 23 January, 1996. This is the decennial year, 2006. Let us prod
[Goanet] Save Goa Alert: Bambolim on 26 Dec. at 4.30 P.M., Taleigao on 31 Dec.
Dears, COME TO BAMBOLIM [Bambolim Beach Resort Road] AND SEE THE OTHER FACE OF ALDEIA DE GOA. If you feel angry when you see the sight of the destruction, EXPRESS YOURSELF! Write about it to the Governor, the Chief Minister, the Chief Secretary, the newspapers. Every person is important...and every vote counts. The SAVE GOA Campaign moves to Bambolim-Naoshi road [between GMC Bambolim and the Aldeia de Goa entrance on the Dona Paula road; turn opposite the road leading to Cabesa-Alto Santa Cruz] on 26 DECEMBER [Boxer's Day] at 4.00 P.M. The Dainik GOMANTAK [Marathi language daily newspaper] has a pretty good view of the ALDEIA [Portuguese word meaning the Countryside] DE GOA on its way to becoming another CIDADE [meaning City]see-tee baja-ke...in a jiffy. Read the newspapers of today[ 23 December, 2006]; GT on page 1, 2 and 3 Gomantak [Marathi] Banner headline on page 1 and 2 Tarun Bharat[Marathi] Banner headline on page 1 and 2 Herald page 1,2[of extra], and 3 www.oheraldo.in NT on page 2 Col.1 and pg 3 www.navhindtimes.com Goa Dhoot page 1,2 and 3 Sunaparant [Konkani, Devanagri script] and also in the periodicals Goan Observer www.goanobserver.com Goa Today Goencho Ulo [Konkani, Romi lipi] www.fullerlife.in , www.goacom.com Save GOA now...it may be GONE tomorrow! Viva Goa. Miguel soter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The reactions elicited in 'Mixed Feelings' (GT, 22/12/2006) exposes the actual brains behind the Regional Plan 2011. Besides the politicians it is a particular section of the priviledged and affluent class that has its eye on Goa's land and has been working through the past and present governments to grab village commune lands [Communidade or Gaokari]. History amply demonstrates how, during the Portuguese rule, there was a class of Goans who were actively involved in fraudulently appropriating the lands and institutions that belonged to the natives. The enemies of Goa cleverly present themselves under various guises of people's movements promising 'rakhan', 'shakti' , 'bhojan' and 'nirvana' while they distract the masses and fortify their empires. The success of the anti-regional plan rally at Panjim has already disturbed these forces who are now using even literary forums for justifying the Regional Plan, SEZs, IT Parks and Habitats, and 6-lane Highways along with other land grabbing exercises. The people of Goa need to remain alert against these 'wolves in sheep's clothing' as they will use all tricks to disunite Goans so that a peoples' initiative like Save Goa Abhiyan should not grow in strength. HEAR IT DIRECTLY FROM THE MASTERS VOICE: Goa has larger issues to deal with such as mafia, drug menace, which is a major problem. You can't stop the Regional Plan now, after we have spent five years deliberating on it. -Nitin Kuncolienkar, GCCI President and D-Link top gun [GCCI = Goa Chamber of Commerce Industry, Panaji-Goa.] Development should continue. How will implementing Regional plan destroy Goa? No one is actually telling what is bad. They have to explain why it is bad, what is wrong and where it is wrong. Let them justify it. However, progress shouldn't stop. For us, development is the key. - Manguirish N Pai Raiker, GCCI, Vice President -Soter D'Souza Director, Centre for Panchayati Raj, Madkai- Ponda. Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Regional Plan 2011
Dears, Selma has written what seems to be a logical way forward. Goa does NOT have to become a city, either by design or by default. It is the tranquility of Goa's countryside and beaches that attract the tourists from the rat race of the urban metropolis. In Goa, an individual is a person; in a metropolis s/he is a cog in the machine. It is not for nothing that the Corporate Builders have named their much advertised project ALDEIA DE GOA.THE GOAN COUNTRYSIDE, hyped as a Hill station by the Sea. The imagery of an teeming urban metropolis no longer sells! What our leaders need to remember is that the people of Goa are not in a 'rat race' for development. The winner in a RAT RACE is a winner no doubt. He is also a RAT. In Goa, we have a Monster Rat in the race. I wonder if the likes of Margaret Alva have realised that the alva will get eaten by the rat that has damaged the coconut trees at Bambolim Beach already. It will be mistake to imagine that the Monster Rat is gnawing at Goa's Natural Heritage all by himself. In a rat race, there are other rats. Some mice and bandicoots have joined the race , too. Reports are that there are White Mice as well. They think we are a related speciesthe Guinea Pigs! Save GOA nowit may be GONE tomorrow! Viva Goa. Miguel From: Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] Good article .Regional Plan/reply to Philip --- Philip Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The first part makes sense. In which case, logically, the only choice for Goans is between turning Goa into a 'city' by design or by default. In any event, there should be some 'alternative' to what has been proposed as a regional plan. What is it? Cheers. -- Dear Philip, In my very humble opinion, Goa has to decide once in for all the type of industry they are going to court, taking into consideration the human capital and infrastructural base they already possess. They can't decide to be an IT Park one day and a haven for polluting industries the next. The second very important thing is to assign huge tracts of land (the relevant portions) as conservation land, not to be touched for atleast 99 year. The third aspect of the urbanisation of Goa has to take into account the natural environment and its preservation. This is not an impossible feat. Itrequires skilled urban planning from the likes of Charles Corea. He once appeared on television with interesting ideas on the rebuilding of Mumbai. What we do instead is leave our town and country planning to the likes of Babush, who as we know has a fondness for the green, only it isn't the type of green that we like to conserve. Best seasons wishes, selma Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] 14th Annual Home Garden Competition Poster Competition
14TH ANNUAL HOME GARDEN COMPETITION POSTER COMPETITION. Entries are invited for the fourteenth annual All-Goa Home Garden Competition organised by the Botanical Society of Goa [BSG] in association with its institutional and individual members from all over Goa. The Directorate of Social Forestry Parks[Forest Dept], the Directorate of Education, Dhempe College of Arts Science, St.Xavier's College of Arts, Science Commerce, Government College of Arts, Science Commerce-Khandola, Institute of Hotel Management C. T. A.N.-Goa, a number of Higher Secondary and Secondary Schools and the Fundacao Oriente are institutional members of the BSG. A panel of expert judges, drawn from landscapers, horticulturists, agriculture and forest officers among the members of the BSG, will visit the homes of the participants and judge the gardens for the following parameters:i]design and lay out of the garden ii] range of plants iii]texture and colour scheme of foliage and flowers iv]fruit and vegetable plots v]re-cycling of solid waste with or without EM vi] re-use of waste water for irrigation and vii] health of the plants. Bonus points are awarded for maintenance of roadside trees near the house. The aim of this annual competition is not just to select the best garden, but also to create environmental consciousness. The judging of the Home Gardens will be done on two consecutive Sundays,14 and 21 January, 2006. The approximate time of judging will be indicated on the preceeding Saturday. Entries may be sent via email or SMS or phone to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9822124032 with a copy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9822982676 giving name and contact number of the garden owner. In the run up to the Home Garden Competition, the BSG will hold a on-the-spot poster making competition on the themes GREEN GOA and OUR ENVIRONMENT for students of all ages and for adults in five different catergories viz. Middle School [Std.V to VII], High School [Std.VIII to SSC], HSS, College/University students and non-student adults. This activity is in association with the SAVE GOA Campaign led by PMCA and supported by the BSG and other NGOs. [ for details visit http://www.goacom.com/joel/news/2006/dec/29dec06.htm ] Certificates will be given to all participants and substantial cash prizes will be awarded to the best three entries in each catergory of participants, irrespective of the theme. The entries will be judged by artists and environmental/social activists for both the art and the message of the poster. Each participant has to bring his or her own painting materials. Drawing paper [A-3 or half imperial size] will be provided by the organisers. Due to the large number of participants and the staggered re-opening of schools after Christmas holidays, the poster making competition will be held in two sessions 10.00 A.M. to 12.00 noon and 3.00 P.M. to 5.00 P.M.. the venue is the Garcia da Horta Municipal Garden, Church Square,Panaji. All contestants must report at the entrance opposite Hindu Pharmacy. The BSG will also participate in the Krishi Mahotsav being organized by the Directorate of Agriculture at Ponda ground from 18 to 21 January, 2007. The second edition of GREEN MORMUGAO is also likely to be held by the end of January, 2007 at Vasco. Let us work together to preserve Goa, clean and green. The Botanical Society of Goa has always been in the forefront to green the minds of the Generation Next. Miguel Braganza Christina de Souza President BSG Secretary BSG
[Goanet] Save Goa Campaign: Sign in
Dears, Please visit http://www.savegoa.com/signature_campaign.html and register your protest against the Regional Plan 2011 in its PRESENT FORM. THE CAMPAIGN IS PUSHING FOR DISCUSSIONS WITH STAKE HOLDERS, SPECAILLY THE LOCAL SELF GOVERNMENT BODIES [MUNICIPALITIES AND PANCHAYATS] before THE PLAN IS DEVELOPED de novo. Viva Goa. Miguel
[Goanet] St Xavier's College?
Dear Tony, If Garth likes to call his venture Gato loco, where is the point in 'correcting' the spelling? Kool Katz is as cool as the Gurlz showroom. I had a subordinate named Odry. If I spelt her name as 'Audrey' she thought the correspondence was addressed to someone else ;-( The same is the case with Movin, 'Janifer' or 'Jaklin' Writing a book on correct usage of English is one thing, dealing with improperly used 'Proper' nouns is another. There is no point getting 'possessive' about it...specially when dealing with an oncologist from Aldona living in the New World ;-)) Rightly or wrongly, St.Xavier's College HSS, Mapusa, is the Alma Mater of many of us...and we are 'possesive' about it. The 'Goemcho Saib' does not own it, the Archdiocese of Goa does. SFX is not even Goa's Patron Saint of the Archdiocese...but that does not make any differnece to us. We own him as our very own saint. Half the Catholics in Goa do not know who St.Catherine is, or when her feast is celebrated or that she is the official Patron Saint of Goa. They do not care , either. So do not split hair on these matters...Parachute tel laga! ;-)) Viva Goa. Miguel From: Gilbert Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Tony, The exact name of their organization (not another version of it) is their title and logo. They have the prerogative to christen their institution as they see fit and register that as a trade mark. There is no right or wrong. Similarly when it comes to spelling, one may use the name Elisabeth while another uses Elizabeth. Similarly there can be a Lawrence or a Laurence. And one may trademark their restaurant as Kountry Kitchen, if they so choose. If you do not wish to appreciate this explanation, then you can stay with your rationale and continue to be confounded with your dilemma. I will let you have the last word. Kind Regards, GL --- Anthony M Barreto People seeking to associate their institutions with the name of a saint can say for example St. Elizabeth Medical Center, which in no way dilutes the effect of association. The same goes for St Luke Healthcare. The possessive case here is clearly out of place. Best wishes. Tony Martin Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Goa today, Gone tomorrow!
Goa today, Gone tomorrow! Goa's values are now getting monetized! Angela Maria D'Souza is an innocuous name. A number of girls living in Goa have that name. The only difference is that one innocent teenaged girl from Barrosvaddo-Sangolda who bore that name mysteriously died in Goa Medical College Hospital barely two weeks ago. She was allegedly in illegal custody of a former deemed-IAS officer of the Goa Administration who had 'adopted' her and refused to part with her to an orphanage where her siblings are sheltered from the big bad world. The news appeared on Page 3 of a local newspaper amidst advertisements of celebrations, after- sales service and kebabs. She is no longer around to celebrate Christmas or New Year, let alone to grow up into a Page 3 celebrity. Unlike Mandar Surlakar's death, the passing away of Angela will not make it to the front pages. She has no father or mother to fight her case. The 'foster' father will be more interested in hushing the matter than to publicise it, lest people raise questions about the legality of the girl's custody in a nominally Christian family or how, or why, the girl came to ingest the poison. PSI Narayan Chimulkar of the Calangute Police Station has a key role to play in the investigations. The viscera will tell what the poison was, not who administered it. There are other questions that Childline and other organizations and individuals have begun to ask. The SAVE GOA Campaign has overshadowed this, as crime during the Konkani agitation got overshadowed twenty years ago. On Christmas day we remember Jesus and his unwed [though bethrothed] mother, Mary. One would think that, 2000 years ago, humanity was more primitive than today. Mary would have been a prime candidate for stoning to death and there would be no church in Panaji or Moira dedicated to the Immaculate Conception. The concept itself would be history. Yet, Joseph stood by her. On Christmas eve, a teenaged nurse working in Miramar did not even have a manger in which to put her newborn child, let alone a Joseph to stand by her. In her moment of despair, she flung the child out of the first floor flat. It got her a single column on the front page, in red, on Christmas day. This is an irony of ironies in a developed susegad Goa in which the likes of Margaret Alva, Sachin Tendulkar, Shah Rukh Khan and others would like to invest in, legally or otherwise. So what is the price we pay? Lionel Messias wrote in 1987 that Bhagvanta Naique, the father of Sudin, offered the then MLA of Margao and Konkani agitation leader, Adv. Uday Bhembre, a sum of Rs.20,000/- for the Vaz family as atonement . The atonement was for the merciless killing of 20 year old Floriano Vaz nearhis home at Gogol from a point blank shot by a .303 police rifle on the orders of then PSI [now full-fledged Police Inspector] Narayan Yetale at the instance of Sudin. Floriano's crime was that of creating a road block with stones and verbally abusing Sudin at that point on the road during the height of the agitation. According to the report [reproduced in GT Weekender on Christmas eve this year], the offer of money was made in the house of Luizinho Faleiro, then an MLA and now a Minister in the cabinet of Pratapsingh Raoji Rane, the Chief Minister of Goa, then and now. Sudin still sells fishnets and we still believe in Blood Money in present day Goa. Life goes on. Oh. That was way back in 1986! one might say. So what has changed now? Definitely, it is not the concept of blood money that has changed. The value has been stepped up to keep abreast of the inflation and devaluation of the rupee. The man-made landslide at Tollem mines of Radha Timblo in Sanguem killed five workers who earned Rs.120/- a day. Each of them will be compensated by a payment of Rs.2.00 lakhs to the next of kin. The total compensation package for five human beings is Rs.10.00 lakhs ..or less than the cost of one truck. Life is cheap. Life of migrant labour is cheaper. One only cries for the loss of the dozer-ripper: Ot costs Rs.300.00 lakhs. That is our value system now. Whenever a true blue-blooded Goenkar sees the greenery in Goa being destroyed, he sees red. Dr. Oscar Rebello, fellow columnist in GT and Convenor of the Save Goa Campaign that has now taken off the ground and is flying into the face of builders, mine owners and politicians, wrote in his letter of appeal to the permanent residents of this state, Goa, today is at the crossroads of her very existence. Her soul; her identity and her beauty are being mercilessly sold off, all for the petty gains of a petty few. It is not just the Regional Plan; it is the entire value system. Put yourself in the RP 2011 and you get the message: R.I.P. 2011. Either we break the nexus now or it is Next us on the auctioneer's block. Not everyone needs to be a martyr like young Floriano Vaz who died for Konkani on 20 December, 1986 or like Nilesh Naik
[Goanet] HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007
Dears, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007. HERE IS ME, WISHING YOU ALL THE VERY BEST IN THE NEW YEAR AND THE YEARS TO FOLLOW. HELP KEEP GOA CLEAN AND GREENFOR THE COMING GENERATIONS TO ENJOY1 Warm regards, Miguel Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
Re: [Goanet] Archbishop's Christmas statement
The Diocesan Clergy has its work cut out for it. In fact, there is a shortage of Diocesan priests to attend to the parishes and some of these have now been handed over to other Religious Orders/Congregations. There are also schools, HSS and Colleges to manage. Electoral Politics is definitely not its cup of tea. The Church, however, has a role to play in informing and advising the faithfull. It also has a responsibility to pull up the wayward, even if they are fullgrown men and womenand wealthy to boot! It is difficult to imagine how a Parish Priest is equipped to identify five good and prominent Hindus and that too for electoral politics. Can one decide on mangoes using the indices of a chickoo? The benchmarks differ. To some a ghagra- choli is okay, skirt and short-cropped blouse is not, or vice-versa. Gosto e relativo. Tastes differ. IMHO, the Archbishop did well not to permit such foolish and unwaranted action. Who would underwrite the morality of a newly elected politician for whom the word GOD soon becomes an acronym for the Good Ole Dollar. If Fr. Antimo Gomes really wants to clean up a system, he can devote all his attention to the DSE administration, over which he presides. One lifetime is not enough to put all its records in order. In addition, he has to manage the parish of ICC in Panaji. It may be nice to involve the committed persons among laity in running the temporal affairs of the church [like properties, printing press, schools and colleges] rather than involve priests in the affairs of the political establishment. The priests can help NGOs but should not become a part of them. They have a bigger role to play as guides and advisors. Viva Goa. Miguel Sachin Phadte wrote I had mentioned about the move by some priests to do something about cleansing the election system in Goa. Sachin Phadte. UCAN: Priest-initiated campaign to fight corruption divides Catholic clergy 10/10/2006 http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21562
Re: [Goanet] Damu's allegations [Letter from GT]
Dear Soter, Damu's mattov is not the only place where one can find kolvont personalities who have made it an art form. Etymologically the word kolvont is said to be derived from kola vont or artist. Do not expect big things from small minds...it is beyond their scope. the pity is that intelligent persons in the state cabinet had given temporary Leave of absence to their senses and thinking faculties. and actually approved the Regional Plan 2011 for notification by CIRCULATION, an euphemism for sly action one-on-one by Ministers to avoid discussion at a Cabinet meeting in the presence of the Cabinet Secretary and other officials. the Police powers were sought to be given to Security companies in a similar manner a decade earlier. Viva Goa. Miguel soter wrote: Damulea mattvantu kolvontacho khellu' is one of the stanza of the popular Goan dekhni. We have 40 Damus in Goa who have made it their business to see that people dance to their tunes. The allegations levelled against the Goa Bachao Abhiyan by the BJP Yuva Morcha President, Mr. Damodar Naik as reported in GT (28/12/2006) is uncalled for and ridiculous on his part. It is suprising that Mr. Naik levels such charges against the GBA when the BJP leaders and their sympathisers voluntarily extended support to this movement against the Regional Plan 2011. Is it a case of grapes turning sour, as the approach taken by GBA has dashed the hopes of political parties aiming to exploit the issue for their electoral benefits? In the first place, Mr. Naik forgets that he is one of the 40 MLAs and therefore owes an explanation to the people of Goa as to what steps he has taken against this draconian Regional plan 2011 and other illegalities he talks about. Secondly, before he accuses the GBA of promoting Congress interests, he needs to let the people of Goa know the difference between the BJP and Congress in the event that the very bed fellows who catapult them to power are common, besides the corruption and communal agendas of both the parties. Why should the GBA only name Mr. Atanasio Monserate and not Mr. Dayanand Narvekar, Mr. Subhash Shirodkar, Mr Luizinho Faleiro and Mr. Sudhin Dhavlikar for the destruction of Goa? That the GBA is accused of promoting left ideologies only goes to manifest the pro-rich affinity of the BJP and simultasneously the anti-goan sentiments towards the local poor and marginalised who are suffering as a result of the present and past government development policies. Thirdly, Mr. Naik should stop rationalising his failures as an MLA by inviting Dr. Rebello to win an election so as to understand the MLA's limitations. The Goan public do not need to contest any election as they very well know the limits to which the MLAs from any political party can go when it comes to their economic interests. If the limitations are so stiffling that the MLAs cannot protect the interests of the people they should resign. It is but natural that when MLAs stop doing their homework, and reduce themselves to mere numbers, dealers and part of shouting brigades, they can achieve nothing. Lastly, Mr. Naik should stop trying to polarise the Goan people as the outcome could be further detrimental to his already tainted BJP party. It is necessary that all the 40 MLAs are sent home as they have amply proved themselves to be incompetent and are like same wine in differently coloured bottles. -Soter D'Souza Socorro Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Goanet] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear Dr.Santosh Helekar, I am in full agreement with you that SELLING miracles should be treated as a crime. FACILITATING miracles to happen is another matter. I am sure you will agree with it, quite rationally. Courage, my daughter. Your FAITH has made you whole said Jesus. At that very moment the woman became well. [Matthew 9:22; Mark 5:29, Luke 8:48] Among these three synoptic Evangelists, Dr. Luke was a Physician and hence the Doctors' associations are often known as St.Luke's Associations the world over. This is what he wrote before the famous sentence: As Jesus went along, the people were crowding him from every side. among them was a woman who had severe bleeding for 12 years; she had spent all she had on doctors, but no one had ben able to cure her. She came through the crowd and touched the edge of his cloak, and her bleeding stopped at once. Jesus asked, Who touched me? Everyone denied it, and Peter said, Master, the people are all round you and crowding on you. Luke 8:42 to 45. Jesus is not reported to have touched the woman and stopped her bleeding; it was SHE who touched his cloak, not even his body. Jesus said to her, Courage, my daughter. Your FAITH has made you whole It was not prayers or mantras or placing of hands or talisman or rituals that healed the woman, IT WAS HER FAITH. Modern Allopathic medicine accepts the presence of psycho-somatic ailments; either directly or through enhancement or suppression of hormone production. These ailments can be cured without medicines. I HAVE BEEN TO POTA. It was a dozen years ago. It was suggested that my mother may get healed of her rheumatoid athritis. I had grave doubts, but accompanied her to Pota. Had I not accompanied her to a dozen doctors. allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedain Goa and outside? Had she not silently swallowed the bitter medicines, accepted the injectibles and undergone the various massages for so many years? The doctors' medicines did not work. No miracle occurred for her at Pota, either. Should we then ban all the doctors from practicing medicine. They were as ineffective as the one week at Potaand took far longer time and were far more expensive, individually! While we were at Pota, there was a Childless couple, both of them my childhood friends. The wife was a religious person. She was also a chain smoker. As a school kid, I used to wonder whether she could actually read the fine print of the Bible through the haze created by the smog generator between her lips. The husband was our hero. He had access to an old car when the biggest vehicle I had was a cycle. Money was not a problem...and they had spent their share of money on every conceivable type of doctors, with no success in conceiving a child. After the retreat at Pota, the wife gave up smoking...and soon became a mother. They then had another child. One may not call this a MIRACLE...all the same, it is something that modern medicine and expensive doctors did not! Pota is not SELLING miracles. It charges about Rs.300/- per head towards food, lodging and the overheads for sound , light, live music for a week. One cannot even get entry for a 8.00P.M. to 2.00 A.M. dance party for that amount. the Divine Retreat Centre has houses and posh rooms, all donated by those who have been HEALED of their ailments. Miracle or no Miracle! Most of the workers are volunteers. Some of the assistants to the cooks and waiters have M.D., M.S., M.Tech, M.B.A. and other Post Graduate qualifications. The miracle of Pota began as a thatched roof shed and a few persons who believed that God could work miracles. It does not work in every case BUT the number of cases in which it has worked so far is tremendous. Jesus's words, Courage, my daughter. Your FAITH has made you whole works on intelligent men also. It is a question of Faith, NOT of Miracles. Viva Goa. Miguel Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 13:53:42 +1100 (EST) From: Gabriel de Figueiredo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Santosh, AFAIK no miracles have been sold at Potta - Potta, as I understand, is a retreat centre, and attendance is FOC - please correct me if I am wrong. Miracles, if they occur, are a by-product of spiritual upliftment. No, I have not attended Potta nor do I have any intentions in doing so. Gabriel. --- Santosh Helekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Selling miracles - giving people false hope and taking their money ought to be a crime. Cheers, Santosh -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070105/78626e77/attachment.html
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WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to: Nodal Officer District Collector (Goa) Mr. Nikhil Kumar Office: 2223612; Residence (after 8PM): 2420710; mobile 9822123071 Dears, Let us learn to keep our debates dignified...for Goa's sake! Kevin, people do not turn to God FIRST. God is generally the last resort...when EVERYONE ELSE FAILSthis holds good equally for the theists as for many of the proclaimed atheists/agnostics. Miracles are not necessarily complex phenomena...they are OUT OF THE ORDINARY happenings. Use another word if you like. The 'miracle' I wrote about of Pota is about conceiving a child [unaided by other 'helpful' men]. The problem could, perhaps, be medically attributed to the wife's smoking habit. She conceived after giving up smoking. Technically, the 'miracle' may have been in getting a 'confirmed' smoker to give up a 15 year plus habit. That is as tough as converting a 'confirmed' bachelor or spinster into a married person or an atheist into a theist, or vice-versa. Pota did the 'trick'. We call it a 'miracle'. Call it what you will. The lady has tqwo children. Before going to Pota she had none...and not for want of trying ...or medical advice and expense. That is as far as miracles go. For 'Faith' read Hebrews 11:1 ff in the New Testament of the Bible. The agnostics/atheists can read it like any novel. The Jehovah stuff does not fit into this. Perhaps, they have their reasons as we have for killing animals that the vegetarians do not understand. Viva Goa. Miguel WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to 24-hour Helpline +91 9822684372
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WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to: Nodal Officer District Collector (Goa) Mr. Nikhil Kumar Office: 2223612; Residence (after 8PM): 2420710; mobile 9822123071 From: Kevin Saldanha Hi Miguel, Re the first line of your reply... did you mean 'for God's sake' ;-? Comment: I wrote what I wanted to. This is Goanet, not Godnet ;-( Now that Purgatory has effectively been eliminated, what is the purpose of praying for the dead? Comment: AFAIK, This statement does not hold good for good catholics, with minor flaws. If it has been eliminated, no one has told them the good news yet. ;-( I think that prayers are said primarily to benefit the person doing the praying. There is an undeniable sense of peace sitting by oneself either in a church or watching a sunset. That internal dialogue can take many forms but if done on a timetable with a sense of duty, it's purpose is defeated. Comment: Your words. No dispute from my side. A barren woman praying for children, who suddenly conceives after visting Potta is not my idea of a miracle. What is truly a miracle is the conception of a zygote without any male input in a species which is known for sexual reproduction Comment: Celebrate Parthenogenesis on o8 September or 08 December. You will admit that permanently giving up SMOKING is nothing short of a miracle ;-)) We are asked to take this miracle on FAITH. What, in your opinion, is the difference between 'faith' and 'superstition'. Comment: For faith refer to Hebrews 11:1ff [NT]. for Superstition refer to Goa Sudharop Awardee Mr. Nigale or to George Pinto. That Goanet is Goa-centric is a superstition, too. We discuss Iraq, Bush, anti-semetics and the like. Another word for superstition is a flame bait...it attract maximum postings and Mario thinks it is a miracle ;-)) We are slowly learning the downsides of the excessive meat consumption we have come to take for granted recently. Comment: That explains your new email ID...vege hotdog ;-)) Mog assundi sodankal Kevin Saldanha Mississauga, ON. Viva Goa. Miguel Braganza Mapusa, OFF. From: Miguel Braganza Dears, Let us learn to keep our debates dignified...for Goa's sake! Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc. WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to 24-hour Helpline +91 9822684372
Re: [Goanet] VOTE FOR MANOHAR PARRIKAR in May and Attain Goa Dourada !
-personal skills. Some live to learn, others learn to live. to each, his own. Viva Goa. Miguel Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc. WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to 24-hour Helpline +91 9822684372
Re: [Goanet] Save Goa Campaign and the NDTV slant.
WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to: Nodal Officer District Collector (Goa) Mr. Nikhil Kumar Office: 2223612; Residence (after 8PM): 2420710; mobile 9822123071 Dear Gabriel, Please go to www.ndtv.com It will link you to the paid video service. The Regional Plan 2011 seeks to convert 50% more land area [or almost 2,000,000,000 sq. metres ]to constuction, than what existed on 31 March 2001, IN THE NEXT FOUR YEARS! This includes the entire hillside facing the Mandovi from Reis Magos to Britona, the entire hillside facing the Zuari river from Dona Paula to Siridao and Goa Velha; One half of Baga hill facing Calangute,the entire hillside facing the Arabian Sea between Betul and Canaguinim and lots more. The area under mining will increase from 110,000,000 sq. m. to just over 390,000,000 sq. m. in the Natural forests of Sanguem, Ponda, Bicholim and Sattari. The campaign against this is called as the SAVE GOA Campaign. It is led by Dr. Oscar Rebello, Patricia Pinto, Annand Madgavkar, Sabina Martins and Shridhar Kamat. For a change, the Archbishop of Goa and the Swami Brahmeshwar of Kundaim [ of the Bhandari Samaj] have openly thrown their weight behind the People's Movement. The NDTV report tried to find fault with the Archbishop's stand because some unscruplous priests have sold off Church land in the past, even recent past. The NDTV reporter would like to tell us that we should sit and discuss this rape of our Goa by the builders/real estate lobby conniving with the politicians and international speculators syndicates [Claremont Pvt. Ltd- UK went off the webpage after it was exposed] ...not agitate to prevent it! It is as simple as that. Viva Goa. Miguel Gabriel de Figueiredo wrote Miguel, Pardon my ignorance, but what is the protest all about? By any chance do you have the full URL to the movie notes/article to which you have started the protest campaign? Cheers, Gabriel. P.S. I tried to email you privately, but it bounced back. WWW.GOANET.ORG ** C O M M U N I T Y ** A N N O U N C E M E N T Save Goa Campaign / Goa Bachao Abhiyan Report all violations of Hill-cutting, Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) and other Land Use violations to 24-hour Helpline +91 9822684372
Re: [Goanet] Some Goans have realised what an efficient, non-corrupt CM u were want u back!
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro To sponsor Goanet operations, contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Gabe, A stainless-steel, well-oiled Guillotine is both efficient and non-corruptible. Only fools like Carmo D'Cruz and Cajetan Rego would like to put their heads on the block a third time. Better a grinding stone be put round their necks and they be thrown in the deepest part of the ocean...far away from Indian Harbour and Tivim river. Viva Goa. Miguel From: Gabe Menezes [EMAIL PROTECTED] RESPONSE: There are many more Goans who neither want you nor the BJP; this is even though the Congress wallahs are filling their boots. They see it as a lesser evil. No one in their right mind wants another, Curchorem-Sanvordem, situation, inflamed by the communalists ! Shri Parrikar and the BJP true to their colours, display themselves time and time again; this further instills in the minds of the Goan voters a negative view. -- DEV BOREM KORUM. Gabe Menezes. London, England On 13/01/07, CARMO DCRUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: See Note from Cajetan Rego below. Some enlightened Goans have realised what an efficient and non-corrupt CM you were and want you back as CM in May for the greater good of our beloved Goa. Dr. Carmo D'Cruz, INDIAN Harbour Beach, Florida Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc. - Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070115/91ca6305/attachment.htm
[Goanet] : VOTE FOR MANOHAR PARRIKAR in May
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[Goanet] Govt to denotify Regional Plan 2011:some good and some sad decsions, too.
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears, The Goa Cabinet has decided to give in to the sole demand of the SAVE GOA Campaign [Goa Bachao Abhiyan] and de-notify the REGIONAL PLAN 2011 which would have converted Goa into an urban sprawl like Mumbai...and made land as expensive. It has also agreed to include some other groups into the OBC list, irrespective of religion. The STs will hopefully get 4 seats [12%] in the Legislative Assembly reserved for their candidates. Taleigao, Poinguinim, Canacona are some of the likely seats with ST majority electorate. Along with 19.5 % for OBC, 31.5 % seats will get 'reserved'. Politics in Goa will undergo a change...hopefully for the greater good of the state. Viva Goa. Miguel Govt to denotify Regional Plan 2011 NT Staff Reporter Panaji, Jan 18 Bowing to the public outcry, the state cabinet today decided to denotify the Regional Plan 2011 and draw a fresh regional plan for the next 10 years, up to 2017. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, the Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane said that the Town and Country Planning Board would be asked to engage a reputed planning firm to draw up a new plan, which would be completed in 3-4 months. Mr Rane said that latest technology, including satellite imaging, would be used for drawing up the plan, in which the government forest, the coastal regulation zone area, water bodies, etc, which do not figure in the Regional Plan 2011 would be marked and put up for public scrutiny. Replying to a question on whether the government could denotify the regional plan, the Chief Minister said that it was brought to his notice lately that anyone who has power to notify a plan or a legislation also has power to denotify it. He also denied that the government acted belatedly, saying that everything was done transparently. He further denied that any work was done under the Regional Plan 2011. Earlier, the Chief Minister said that the Congress legislature party, which met in his chamber before the cabinet meeting, resolved that the government should denotify the plan. Mr Rane said that the Congress party honours the sentiments of the public and has taken decision bowing to the wishes of the people. #8220;We represent the people and we have taken decision to denotify the plan as demanded by them,#8221; he told reporters after the CLP meeting. The Chief Minister also said that the cabinet also passed a resolution recommending the government of India to make necessary amendment to the Representation of People#8217;s Act, 1951, and Rules made there under. The cabinet has resolved to urge the central government that that 12 per cent reservation of seats for scheduled tribes and 19.5 per cent seats for other backward classes of the state should be made in the legislative assembly of Goa. The cabinet also decided to increase the procurement price of the milk, with 3.5 per cent fat and 8.5 SNF, to Rs 12 per litre poured by milk producers from the state to the co-operative societies, said Mr Rane. The cabinet also gave its approval to Goa Agricultural Produce Marketing (development and regulation) bill, 2007, he said adding that the bill provides for encouraging contract farming. The new bill once approved by the assembly would replace the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963, which is in force in the state. Mr Rane said that cabinet also decided to cancel the selection process in respect of appointment to junior scale officers of Goa Civil Service by direct recruitment, due to undue delay in selection of candidates with respect to the requisition sent by the government in 2004. The government decision would help many other young people who have become eligible to put up their candidature for the posts, he added. The cabinet also approved creation of 11 posts of theatre art teachers. It also approved appointment of Mr P V Kadnekar, retired joint secretary (law), as special secretary (law). Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc. - Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070119/8e0eb8df/attachment.htm
[Goanet] Govt to denotify Regional Plan 2011:some good and some sad decsions, too.
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears, The Goa Cabinet has decided to give in to the sole demand of the SAVE GOA Campaign [Goa Bachao Abhiyan] and de-notify the REGIONAL PLAN 2011 which would have converted Goa into an urban sprawl like Mumbai...and made land as expensive. It has also agreed to include some other groups into the OBC list, irrespective of religion. The STs will hopefully get 4 seats [12%] in the Legislative Assembly reserved for their candidates. Taleigao, Poinguinim, Canacona are some of the likely seats with ST majority electorate. Along with 19.5 % for OBC, 31.5 % seats will get 'reserved'. Politics in Goa will undergo a change...hopefully for the greater good of the state. Viva Goa. Miguel Govt to denotify Regional Plan 2011 NT Staff Reporter Panaji, Jan 18 Bowing to the public outcry, the state cabinet today decided to denotify the Regional Plan 2011 and draw a fresh regional plan for the next 10 years, up to 2017. Briefing reporters after the cabinet meeting, the Chief Minister, Mr Pratapsing Rane said that the Town and Country Planning Board would be asked to engage a reputed planning firm to draw up a new plan, which would be completed in 3-4 months. Mr Rane said that latest technology, including satellite imaging, would be used for drawing up the plan, in which the government forest, the coastal regulation zone area, water bodies, etc, which do not figure in the Regional Plan 2011 would be marked and put up for public scrutiny. Replying to a question on whether the government could denotify the regional plan, the Chief Minister said that it was brought to his notice lately that anyone who has power to notify a plan or a legislation also has power to denotify it. He also denied that the government acted belatedly, saying that everything was done transparently. He further denied that any work was done under the Regional Plan 2011. Earlier, the Chief Minister said that the Congress legislature party, which met in his chamber before the cabinet meeting, resolved that the government should denotify the plan. Mr Rane said that the Congress party honours the sentiments of the public and has taken decision bowing to the wishes of the people. We represent the people and we have taken decision to denotify the plan as demanded by them, he told reporters after the CLP meeting. The Chief Minister also said that the cabinet also passed a resolution recommending the government of India to make necessary amendment to the Representation of People's Act, 1951, and Rules made there under. The cabinet has resolved to urge the central government that that 12 per cent reservation of seats for scheduled tribes and 19.5 per cent seats for other backward classes of the state should be made in the legislative assembly of Goa. The cabinet also decided to increase the procurement price of the milk, with 3.5 per cent fat and 8.5 SNF, to Rs 12 per litre poured by milk producers from the state to the co-operative societies, said Mr Rane. The cabinet also gave its approval to Goa Agricultural Produce Marketing (development and regulation) bill, 2007, he said adding that the bill provides for encouraging contract farming. The new bill once approved by the assembly would replace the Maharashtra Agricultural Produce Marketing (Regulation) Act, 1963, which is in force in the state. Mr Rane said that cabinet also decided to cancel the selection process in respect of appointment to junior scale officers of Goa Civil Service by direct recruitment, due to undue delay in selection of candidates with respect to the requisition sent by the government in 2004. The government decision would help many other young people who have become eligible to put up their candidature for the posts, he added. The cabinet also approved creation of 11 posts of theatre art teachers. It also approved appointment of Mr P V Kadnekar, retired joint secretary (law), as special secretary (law). Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Goanet] Day of Defeat Disgrace for Government in Goa
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dear me, And I thought that the Goanet did not allow for cross-posting! Carmo first wanted Parrikar to be an independent, now he want him to form a SHAVE GOA Party...hajamat se hajamat tak!! Two more MLAs down...and where's the party tonight? The BJP needs to ask that question as much as the crumbling monolith of Congress. Viva Goa. Miguel CARMO DCRUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Subject: [Goanet] Day of Defeat Disgrace for Government in Goa-We Need Parrikar Save Goa Party To: goanet@goanet.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] It was a day of defeat and disgrace, as political developments unfolded in Goa on Thursday. It was a defeat of forces that held the Regional Plan 2011 together and The BJP today suffered another major jolt as the Supreme Court upheld the verdict of the Bombay High Court at Goa, setting aside the election of two of its MLAs -- Rajendra Arlekar and Dayanand Mandrekar -- for holding an office of profit while in power. Manohar, The above two news items should convince you to launch the Save Goa Party and return to power with an absolute majority in May. All Goans want Good Governance in Goa and they dont want the BJP ! We also dont need the GOAN GAON GOONS who are ruling Goa today and are making a GAAN of Goa ! Best Regards, Dr. Carmo D'Cruz ex Velim in South Goa, now INDIAN Harbour Beach, Florida -- Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc. - Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070120/c1b9ccb2/attachment.html
Re: [Goanet] Church, Priests and Some Issues Raised by Roland
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dear Cip, Do you know any homosexual Goan priest (living or dead)? If yes, Cip, please write the TRUTH and nothing but the factual TRUTH. Adduce evidence [not hearsay] and move on. It does not matter what you or Basilio or Roland THINK that the Bishop of Goa or Timbuktoo knows. What matters is what YOU knowfor sure. Better to be sure, than sorry. Why do you write in riddles? State the fact, if you know it. If not, hold your peace. Viva Goa. Miguel From: C Fernandes 1) Do you know any homosexual Goan priest (living or dead)? 2) Do you think your Bishop knows any of his Goan priests are or was homosexual? Basilio G Monteiro, please write the TRUTH and nothing but the factual TRUTH. Catholic Church Truth seeker, Cip
Re: [Goanet] Victory for All Goans and definetly NOT for
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dear Cip, The notification in the Official Gazette of Goa DE-NOTIFYING the notified Regional Plan 2011 has not yet been issued. the commitment of the government is not good enough. The Goa Legislative Assembly has an Assurances Committee simply because there are number of assurance that remain unfulfilled. so it is not yet a victory. At least the SAVE GOA Campaign leaders are not in celebration mode. If the de-notification takes place, there is a lot of Nitty gritty to take care of. Manohar Parrikar was the Chairman of the Town Country Planning Board when the Draft Regional Plan was prepared in 2004. He was also the Chairman when the Consultants were hired to prepare it in 2001 [with Prakash Phadte as the Minister for TCP]. I do not see how undoing one's own mistake can be a victory for him...even if he is no longer the CM. He will , of course, enjoy Rane's discomfiture because Vishwajeet has been implicated in the recent additions to the RP 2011. That however does not wash away the original sinor sinner. Viva Goa. Miguel C Fernandes wrote Scrapping the Regional Plan 2011 is a Victory for Goans, however, this victory is NOT for Manohar Parrikar, the man who wanted to deprive Goans to get water from Tillari for whatever reasons. Cip
[Goanet] Gram Sabha Resolution for 26 Jan. meeting.
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears, Please find below the draft Resolution prepared by Goa CAN and adopted by SAVE GOA Campaign [GBA] for use at the Gram Sabha on 26 January, 2007 in Goa. Please move the resolution in your village. RESOLUTION (Passed at the Gram Sabha held on 26th January, 2007, at the Village Panchayat of __) 1. It is resolved by the Gram Sabha of _Village Panchayat to place on record the views of the people of _village that the Regional Plan 2011 should be denotified and scrapped from retrospective effect i.e. from 10th August, 2006, the date that it was notified. 2. The Village Panchayats and Municipalities should be consulted while preparing the new Regional Plan. 3. This Gram Sabha reiterates that it must be consulted on the Regional Plan as required under the 73rd Constitutional Amendment. 4. Further the Gram Sabha in its collective wisdom is of the view that the Regional Plan must ensure the safety and preservation of the village common property such as forests and water bodies, agricultural and horticultural lands, etc. which are vital for the social, cultural and economic sustainability of the village and its people. 5. It is resolved to demand that the new Regional Plan be prepared through a new planning process which is participatory, transparent, accountable and in consonance with healthy planning norms with the common Goan as the focus of development., 6. This Gram Sabha also resolves on this auspicious occasion of the Republic Day that the 73rd amendment of the Constitution be implemented in letter and spirit by the Government of Goa through its Directorate of panchayat, BDOs and Village Panchayat Secretaries. 7. This Gram Sabha also resolves that this Resolution be forwarded to the Chief Minister of Goa, Chief Secretary of Goa, Chief Town Planner, Director of Panchayats and Block Development Officer (BDO) of the Taluka. In witness thereof we have also affixed our signatures on this Attendance List. -- Signatures of those present at Republic Day Gram Sabha held on 26th January 2007 at the Village Panchayat of and in support of the Resolution for denotifying and scrapping of the Regional Plan 2011 from retrospective effect (August 10, 2006) Sr. No. Name of villager VaddoSignature 1 2 3 4 5 Warm regards, Mog asundi Miguel Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
Re: [Goanet] Hearty congratulations and a request to SAVE OUR GOA !
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dear Rico, That is very elementary: Integral Humanism means everyone is born a Hindu and then gets 'converted' to other currencies. The re-conversion, at discounted rates, is called 'shuddikaran'. The Catholics also have a similar belief [only substituting the word pagan for Hindu] and conversion by baptism can be done by proxyand even without getting your Ah,ah! wet. Conversion to Islam is a little painful, medically healthy and surgically irreversible. The muslims, therefore, do not fit in the BJP scheme of 'integral humanism'. George Bush, Adolf Hitler, Slobodan Milosovic and others have shown how integrity can be easily re-established. That's another form of 'liberation' theology. Integral Humanism is the basic philosophy of the Bharatiya Janata Party. So there!... Viva Goa. Miguel Frederick \FN\ Noronha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could someone explain what is this integral humanism that the BJP is talking about? FN On 23/01/07, goa world [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEDGE I believe in Integral Humanism which is the basic philosophy of the Bharatiya Janata Party. I am committed to Nationalism and National Integration, Democracy, Gandhian Socialism, Positive Secularism, (Sarva Dharma Sama Bhava) and Value-based politics -- Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Meeting of GBA on progress of de-notifying Regional Plan 2011
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears, It has been unanimously decided to mark Martyr's Day on 30 January, 2007 with solemnity and to re-dedicate ourselves to the empowerment of the people while acknowledging the gains of the awakening launched as the SAVE GOA Campaign from the Azad Maidan, Panaji, where it all began on 18 December, 2006. The programme will be three pronged: 1. A fast by volunteers of GBA at the Martyr's Memorial, Azad Maidan, Panaji. 2. A rally to acknowledge the gains of the people's movement that is GBA and 3. A call to re-dedicate ourselves to the empowerment of the people at every level, from the Gram Sabha to the Legislative Assembly of Goa. The GBA members present noted that the Goa Government has yielded to the people's demand articulated by the GBA and committed to de-notify the Regional Plan 2011 with retrospective effect from 10 August, 2006. The battle has been won and we will publicly acknowledge this while re-dedicating ourselves to continue the war against anti-Goan activities. We will also wait to read the text of the notification before commenting on it. The reports from the GRAM SABHAs conducted today all over Goa are very encouraging. Across the state the people have stated their demand for the scrapping of the notified Regional Plan 2011 in no uncertain terms. Whether it was Taleigao or Soccoro, Benaulim or Chicalim, Goa Velha or Velim the Gram Sabhas have passed the Resolution asking for the de-notification at the special Gram Sabha on Republic Day. Unwilling or hesitant Sarpanch and Panchas were made to convene the Gram Sabha after the flag hoisting and the resolutions passed. Truth triumphs over all lies. The minutes books of the Panchayats now bear testimony to this truth. The action of the Chairman of the Flying Squad, Adv. Aires Rodrigues, of holding a press briefing and using the name of the GBA was also discussed. While he was free to clear his name regarding the legal sale of land to a builder, it was felt that he need not have dragged the name of the GBA in the issue at his briefing. The Core Committee members disagreed with the suggestion of Adv. Satish Sonak that each NGO/group be allowed to nominate 3 or 4 members to the Core Committee and thereby expand it. This matter was discussed earlier also and it was agreed that the present Core Committee size be retained and a larger group, including the Taluka Co-ordinators and activists be invited for planning affirmative actions, as may be needed. Members were also requested not to hold press briefings on behalf of the GBA without the express consent of the Core Group. They are free to express their personal opinions as their personal opinions, not of the GBA. The Convenor and the Secretary will speak on behalf of the GBA. About a dozen members have agreed to join the 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. [7 hours long] fast on 30 January, 2007 at Azad Maidan. Any one else willing to join, may please indicate this by 29 January. Viva Goa. Miguel
[Goanet] ATTEMPTS TO DERAIL A PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears, Each one of us has a constitutional right to buy or sell property as permitted by law. To whom Adv. Aires Rodrigues sells his property is his prerogative. He has every right to defend himself and any right thinking person would support him in defence of his action. Adv. Aires Rodrigues, however, is not a spokesman for the GBA. His role is limited to interacting with the authorities regarding violations of land use laws and illegal or unlicenced tree/hill cutting or land filling. If he is being hauled up for sale of his property it is incorrect to impute his association with the GBA's Flying Squad as the reason. Other members have not dragged the GBA in their transactions that are not directly connected with the GBA. We had ignored a previous statement to the pres that the Save Goa Front had merged with the GBA although no such proposal was discussed by the GBA, nor any merger of an organisation [?] possible with what is essentially a People's Movement. Adv.Aires Rodrigues has stated, I have also requested Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA)Convenor Dr. Oscar Rebello to relieve me of all GBA related work till the Collector of North Goa completes his inquiry into the matter. I, for one, strongly recommend that Dr.Oscar Rebello grants him his request. The GBA is no one's fiefdom...or publicity vehicle. It is a People's Movement. Viva Goa. Miguel From: airesrod I was very surprised when Mr. Rajan Narayan informed me that the Goan Observer had credible information to the effect that I was myself involved in an illegal land deal. This allegation is false, baseless and in bad taste to say the least. An ancestral family house belonging to my late grand mother in which I had a very small share was sold last year to a company owned by Mr. Dattaraj Salgaoncar after all legal and lawful procedures were complied in the sale which was done under the supervision of Senior Advocate Adv. Gilman Coelho Pereira. (MOBILE NO 9822386877) I have also requested Goa Bachao Abhiyan (GBA) Convenor Dr. Oscar Rebello to relieve me of all GBA related work till the Collector of North Goa completes his inquiry into the matter. There seems to be a much planned conspiracy by vested interests to sabotage and create rifts within the Goa Bachao Abhiyan. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Remo Fernandes gets a Padmashree...for a song!!
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dears Goa's one and only Remo Fernandes, the 53 years young Pop Sensation in English, Hindi, Konkani and Portuguese, with a sprinkling of other languages, has been selected for the award of the Padmashree at the hands of the President of India, Dr. A.P.J.Abdul Kalam. It is a great honour for him and for Goa on the 57th anniversary of Republic Day of the Indian Union. You can see deatails of Remo at : http://www.remofernandes.com/remo-profile.htm The news, that Remo learnt on the 26th Jan morning via mobile phone, has appeared as the bottom strap in the oHERALDo newspaper [ www.oheraldo.in ] and as the banner headline in the Marathi newspaper, GOA DHOOT [Goa Messenger] on 28 January, 2007. Other newspapers must be confirming the news to print it later this week. What is not known to many is that Remo Fernandes has been a pillar of support for Goan causes. Whether it was the revivial of the traditional Sao Joao boat races alongside Alexyz Fernandes on 24 June, 1992 or the movement for the de-notification of the Regional Plan 2011 alongside Dr.Oscar Rebello and others in December,2006, Remo was there. His songs have campaigned for responsible action against drug abuse and promiscuity leading to HIV- AIDS. His half century birthday was dedicated to creating awareness about SARS virus and bird flu. In honouring Remo, an architect turned into a singing social activist, the President of India honours all those Goans who have made Goa their home by choicealthough they had other options and the wherewithall to be anywhere else in the world. CONGRATULATIONS, REMO. YOU DO US PROUD. Viva Goa. Miguel Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Re. Meeting of GBA on progress of denotifying the Regional Plan
http://www.GOANET.org This month's Goanet operations sponsored by Mrs. Daisy Faleiro Dear Adv.Aires, Thank you for the clarification. I would be the last person to tell a qualified lawyer his fundamental right to free speech. Each one has a right to their opinion. Viva Goa. Miguel From: airesrod My friend Minguel Braganza wrote, While he was free to clear his name regarding the legal sale of land to a builder, it was felt that he need not have dragged the name of the GBA in the issue at his briefing. Minguel, may not be aware, that I held the press briefing in my very personal capacity. It is my firm opinion that there seems to be a much planned conspiracy by vested interests to sabotage and create rifts within the Goa Bachao Abhiyan. And this personal opinion I expressed and needed no one?s consent to do so. Aires Rodrigues Ribandar --- Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] GBA progress report on NT dt. 29 Jan.
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ GBA hails govt decision on Regional Plan 2011 NT Staff Reporter Panaji, Jan 28 Welcoming the state government's decision to denotify the Regional Plan 2011 with retrospective effect, the Goa Bachao Abhiyan today said that it believed that the decision was an achievement of the people of Goa who came out from all sections of society in large numbers and lent their support. Addressing a press conference this evening, the GBA convenor and spokes-person, Dr Oscar Rebello said that this was a true victory of democratic principles and should serve as a warning to all autocratic and dictatorial tendencies among Goan politicians -- this victory being a step forward towards achieving true democracy in Goa. The vibrant spirit of democracy among Goans was more visible in the gram sabhas held all over the state on January 26, 2007. He observed that the GBA has acclaimed the passing of the resolutions unanimously at these gram sabhas to scrap the Regional Plan 2011 with retrospective effect, he said. The GBA, however, cautioned all Goans to remain vigilant against violations of the laws enacted to protect the fragile ecology and environment of the state and stated that it was the responsibility of every citizen of Goa to ensure that any developmental plan proposed in the future be transparent with the common Goan as its focus and that it provides comprehensive protection to Goa's environment. The GBA also called upon the government to ensure that as per the wishes of the people of Goa, it comes out with a notification denotifying the Regional Plan 2011, which leaves no loopholes that could be exploited by vested interests. The GBA would continue to prevent any such diabolical plans by the politician- developer nexus, Dr Rebello disclosed. Dr Rebello further said that the GBA would continue in its efforts to empower the people by conducting various training workshops at the gram sabha level, so that the people who are decision makers and main stakeholders in the entire planning process are equipped while planning for their villages and ultimately the state as a whole. The GBA also expressed shock to learn through reliable sources that massive changes in land use and increase in FAR have been made in the outline development plans (OPDs) of the five cities namely Panaji, Margao, Mapusa, Mormugao and Ponda and Taleigao/ Durgawadi village without consultation with the local body as required under section 29 of the Town and Country Planning Act. It warned the government that if the OPDs are approved it will be forced to recommence its agitation. In this regard the GBA has written to the Chief Minister and Town and Country Planning Minister, the Chief Secretary, the town and country planning secretary and chief town planner, objecting to final approval of the OPDs. In order to pay homage to the father of the nation on his death anniversary, the GBA would be holding a multi-religious prayer service at the Gandhi statue at Old Goa on January 30, 2007 at 4:30 p.m. At this function the GBA would salute all the people of Goa who participated in the agitation and extended support to the cause, and those who, without fear attended their gram sabha meetings on January 26,2007 and raised their voices to pass resolutions to denotify the Regional Plan 2011. Here the GBA will also rededicate itself to serve the people of Goa and welcome the public to join in the function light a lamp for Goa, Dr Rebello said. COMMENT: Please join us at the statue of Gandhi with a child at Old Goa circle, Ela Farm and Divar jetty crossroad from 4.30 P.M. to 6 P.M. for a multi-religious prayer service and specially composed songs of People's empowerment followed by lighting of the lamp. Light a candle, don't curse the darkness. Miguel Braganza
[Goanet] Remo and NRIs
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Dear Eugene, First and foremost I am not an anti-NRI person. I have both family members and friends all over the world...and I love them no less. Having said that, I admire Goan people [by birth or descent] who are willing to make a sacrifice economic prosperity to be here in Goa to stem the tide of de-Goanization that will soon overwhelm us. There is no point crying over spilt milk. The time to act is when the milk is on the boil. Goa is on the boil right now. The SAVE GOA Campaign has inspired people in Goa to come out of their cozy cocoons and speak out or stand up for their rights. The Regional Plan 2011 is being de-notified from the date it was notified. There is a lot of work to be done. Many hands make light work. I am not taking pot shots at NRIs. There are petty guys who enjoy that. I hope you do not count me among them. However, I do appreciate people like Principal Dr. [Fr.] Antonio Nicolau Pereira who came back from Maryland-USA to teach in a village called Bastora in Goa, Prof. George Moraes who did not go abroad, Dom Moraes who came back in his sunset years. They are no more. Victor Rangel Ribeiro spends half the year in Goa [in the other half he is in USA] helping budding writers and journalists, moving in Goa and writing about issues that concern us. Remo came back and put Goa on the Pop Music map. He also helped other singers to rise. Hema Sardessai is an example. He lends his voice and name to causes. Wendell was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He is doing his bit for Goa. Dr.Claude alvares is neither of Goan parentage nor born in Goa but doing tremendous work here. So is Heta Pandit. Dr.Ajit Shirodkar was born in Vengurla, studied in Purdue, worked in Mumbai but is doing great things as a resident of Goa. The Cacora born Mr. P.G.Kakodkar worked all his life outside Goa but is helping to keep Goa green. I have no further comment to offer on your references to Adv. Aires Rodrigues or writer- journalist Tony Martin [Anthony Barreto, actually]. Both of them have been abroad for short stints. Both of them have been discussed on the Goanet quite a few times. It is no big shake if one is a Goan residing in Goa. What matters is what one is doing for Goa. If one is only amassing wealth at the cost of the welfare of the state, I would rather that they do it elsewhere ...and see if they can get away with it. Marlon Menezes, George Pinto, Herman Carneiro, Dr.Santosh Helekar, Constantino Hermanns Xavier, Gasper Almeida and others are NRIs who work for the welfare of Goa.A true Goan is one who has the goodness of Goa and the welfare of Goa at his/her heart. It is easiest to be a part of the movement to keep Goa Goan if one is a Goan in Goa. All voids are filled either by the non-Goan or worse, by the anti-Goan who treats our Motherland as a piece of Real Estate or speculative investment opportunity. They are no better than the Russian Mafia that has over-run parts of Pernem and have the audacity to put sign boards on the shacks that read No Indians, please as if the word Please makes the signboard decent!! As anyone who knows me in flesh and blood will acknowledge, I am no armchair critic. I am not an easy to get along person , either. I insist that one puts his money where his mouth is and does things that one feels need to be done. I had offers to go abroad to USA and UAE and there is one which I am considering right now...to Afganistan in an agriculture mission. Goa gets me first. Everything else can wait. Ask anyone in my family, they will tell you that they are a second priority. Home is whaere the heart is. My heart is in a clean and green Goa. So I must stem the tide of pollution...of thought, word and actionto the extent I can. Jinkum kivam marum [ Whether we win or die]as the MGP theme song told the world during my childhood days. Shivaji's soldiers used to cut the ropes after they scaled the fort. There was no chance of retreat...no third choice...just two...win or die. That was the secret of Shivaji's tremendous success. It is the way to wage a struggle. It needs a strong heart. Dr. Oscar Rebello has found one as Patricia Pinto did a few years back...to lead from the frontone citadel at a time. Viva Goa. Miguel
Re: [Goanet] Remo and NRIs
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ From: Anthony C. L. Fernandes wrote Dear Miguel, Very good and appropriate response. Please do not get discouraged by suchgossips and half baked writers who wish to idle retired life by writing such comments. It would be more appropriate if such writers had to write in what way they have contributed to mother Goa's development so far so that others may follow their examples and do their mite. What we need is constructive ideas,solutions and useful contributions for delelopment of Goa at much fasterspeed. Keep up the good works. Regards A. Fernandes Dubai -- Dear Anthony, Thank you for the compliments and the words of encouragement. These are hard to come by in the Goan community, anywhere and anytime. May your tribe increase. I have received a few personal emails and some SMSes, too. It is good to know that people care about Goa and are willing to say so publicly. As you have rightly pointed out, we also need to DO something for Goa. I hope to promote this concept by my personal example, in both WORDS and DEEDS. The SAVE GOA Campaign has brought out ordinary people and they are doing extra-ordinary things. May our tribe increase. In the Botanical Society of Goa [it is unimportant to me that I am its current President] and the Western Ghats Kokum Foundation we have adopted the theme T.E.A.M. :Together Everyone Achieves More. Goa Heritage Action Group and the Agriculture Officers' Association work on more or less the same principle. It is easy to criticise. Actually, it is even easier to do good. The problem is no one believes that work can be as easy as breathing if one makes it a habit. Imagine if we were to breathe consciously and by our effortand were unable to sleep lest we stop breathing. Begin doing goodand it continues even while you sleep. Even my critics can try it. It works. Viva Goa. Miguel
Re: [Goanet] Digest, Vol 2, Issue 113 - First Polls
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Victor Rangel-Ribeiro is absolutely right about the absence of rigging and there was absolutely no role for the army to interfere in the first democratic elections in Goa. There was no political perception of hindu or catholic at that point of time; it was pro- or anti- mergerists. I have grown up in goa calling my neighbour's mother Ayee and having them call my mother Mai, sitting for bhajans and kirtans with them and having them sing Christmas carols or dulpods with us. Cooking chicken xacuti together, sometimes eating pork. The only points on which we differed was eating beef and receiving communion. I would differ with Victor only on the statistics. At the point of Liberation, there were MORE Catholics than Hindus, even if one lumped the Bhandari samaj, the Bahujan samaj and the Saraswats together. The promotion of in-migrations from Maharashtra to staff the offices [derogatorily known as deputationists] and teaching faculty as also to create a pro-merger lobby changed the demography then. Catholics are still not a minority in Goa. With 26.5 % population at present, every fourth man, woman and child walking in Goa is a Catholic as against less than 10 % of Muslims and Saraswats put together. Only the Bhandari Samaj outnumbers the catholics in Goa. The Dept of Planning Statistics Evaluation ready reckoner will bear this out. Catholics are the SECOND LARGEST MAJORITY COMMUNITY in Goa. We have quite a proportionate representation in the Goa Legislative Assembly, except for the absence of a muslim in the current assembly. Viva Goa. Miguel Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:55:24 -0500 From: Victor Rangel-Ribeiro Dear Bernardo Colaco, You have been able to pack several bits of not-so-innocent misinformation in just two lines, when you speak of the rigging that brought the Hindus into power by the invading Indian Army.
Re: [Goanet] Remo and NRIs
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Dear Anthony, Those who know the BSG activities in Goa, will also agree that we are already doing most of the things suggested by you. We have just concluded the 14th annual home garden competition. The winner of the competition, Nicholas Sequeira from Saligao [incidentally, next door to Fred Noronha], not only uses waste water from his kitchen and bath room but also that from two of his neighbours to water his fruit plants. He has well organised compost units. We promote environmental consciousness by adding points for such activities in our criteria for judges, which are also made public. Biofertilisers are being promoted not only by BSG but also by the ICAR, directorate of Agriculture, Pilar Nature Farm, Sahakare Spice Farm and Cosme Pharma Ltd. It started with Rhizobium in the 1980s...and there is no looking back. I have been personally involved in promoting mushroom cultivation since 1985 and helped set up a seed production unit at Old Goa in 1995, just before I left Government service to take up private employment enroute to self-employment and NGO activism, a luxury that a government servant cannot afford. Thank you for bringing up these issues. It gives us a reason to share information that people otherwise take for granted that we do not know.or care to know. The only thing that we have failed at is growing potatoes...and that, too, not for want of trying. Viva Goa. Miguel From: Anthony C. L. Fernandes Dear Miguel, You are most welcome. Since you are involved deeply in keeping GOA green, may I suggest (if not already done so by now) that all households in the villages and in towns/cities, talukas/districs, try to do these?: 1. Recycle the waste water Recycle the waste water from the kitchen, wash rooms, etc., to grow at the back and side of the house or in balconies, daily each house vegetable requirements, e.g. green chillies, beans, potatoes, tomatoes, Okra, curry leaves, etc.
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Wildlife hotspots and biodiversity
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Wildlife hotspots and biodiversity Different strokes for different folks! The Mahadei river network is in the news for two different, and conflicting, reasons. The river is getting dammed and the biodiversity is getting damned! Amidst the despair is a reason to celebrate and sing the song Cecilia and it can go breaking your heart. Nirmal Kulkarni, who has made biodiversity conservation a part of his fine art in Goa, along with a team of Zoologists led by Professor Dr. Gopalkrishna Bhat of MGM College Udipi [South Kanara, Karnataka] and K.P.Dinesh of the Zoological Survey of India, Kochi [formerly Cochin, Kerala], discovered a new Caecilian and named the species as Gegeneophis goaensis [not Goanese]. This is an authentic discovery. Nirmal is as clear as his name, not a mischievous child from Nandanwan who is prone to name dropping and name calling. The team leader could have latinised his name Gopalkrishna but, naturally, the latinised specific name 'goaensis ' is an honour and tribute to Goa. The 'Generic' name Gegeneophis is in continuation with the cousins of this limb-less amphibian that one could easily confuse for a large earthworm. Our naturalist friend and history teacher, Rajendra kerkar , has been living next door to these Caecilians all his life at Kerim in Sattari taluka, right in the middle of our Chief Minister's Poriem constituency. It is a further proof of Goa's status as a biodiversity hotspot, with plants and animals yet to be discovered, documented, confirmed and named! The Sattari taluka is also a favourite region for hiking. During the two years that I worked as a farm manager in Naneli, the Botanical Society of Goa organized day-long, over-night and even full moonlight hikes to the breathtaking peak of Wagheri Hills. The orchid flowers hanging from roadside trees from Valpoi to Thane and Rivem are a sight to see during August. The misty nights from October to March have their own thrill. Some hikers are so thrilled with the experience that they literally engrave their names in stone. Such is the lasting effect of a single hike in Sattari, God's gift to mankind. The name itself may have come from 'Sater' or anthill or, perhaps, from our Earth goddess, Sateri. On a very wet and rainy day in July 2005, the Rotaract Club of Mapusa organised hike to Kumtal [off the Nanuz road] in Sattari taluka. It is a part of the Mahadei Wild Life Sanctuary that is a gift to the world, specially Goa, during the short term of President's Rule under Lt.General J.F.R. Jacob with our own Goenkar Richard de Souza as the Conservator of Forests. It was a grand affair. Besides the Rotaractors from Mapusa, there were some Rotaractors from Margao, and quite a few Rotarians from Rotary Club of Mapuca including gynaecologists Dr.Sunil Kenkre, Dr. Ajit Mopkar, banker Salvador Pinto, advertising entrepreneur Guruprasad Pawaskar, and my sons, Conrad and Colin. Rotaract President Rtr. Paresh Rivonkar, led from the front with hospitality man Rtr. Abhijeet Walke as the project co-ordinator and the support of the then DRR Raaj Khalap, now the Treasurer of the Communidade of Mapusa. Raaj and I, as Gaunkars of Mapusa, come from families that worshipped the goddess Tulzai or Mapxenchi Saibinn, a form of goddess Sateri. The bonding is so strong that even conversion and dedication of the Church to St. Jerome has not been able to take the Saibinn out of the life and tradition of Mapxemkars. The thrilling parts of the hike were the dip in a milky waterfall and an aerial river crossing on a single cable bridge erected by Adventure trainer Pradeep Joshi of Prajosh Adventures. Strapping on a hip harness, hooking the carabine to the cable and guy rope, and crossing the river like a commando has its own thrill. The girls were no less courageous than their male counterparts. It was great fun and no one had had enough of this thrilling experience. We promised ourselves that we would come back for more. In July 2006, the Rotaract clubs of Mapusa, Panaji and the new club in Ponda went on a memorable hike to Satrem and Kodal in Sattari along with Rotarians from the two clubs in Mapsa. The hamlet of Kodal, on the fringes of the Mahadei Wild Life Sanctuary was once being negotiated by the Ion Exchange Ltd. company to promote their concept of a weekend farmer. It failed as the land was too close to the Wild life Sanctuary with limitations on
Re: [Goanet] Meeting in Bishop's house
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Dear Afra, Absolutely. It is easy to make allegations and promise to reimburse expenses for the documentation. The defamation takes place for free!! If Cip was not there at the meeting, who told him about it? If he was present, did he lack guts to ask a priest his name? And is this the same Cip from UK who invited me for snacks in a restaurant near Salim's hotel in Arpora...and asked his friend to 'adjust' the cost in the bill of another group that was having a party? If he has money to blow on 'hot air' discussions, he should pay his own bills first. This is not an allegation it is a statement of fact. Regret, I do not mince wordsonly mince meat. ;-)) Anyway, there is a proportionate number of priests who are casteist as there are in the lay Goans in India and abroad. So what is new about that? Should we record minutes of all discussions among Goans? Viva Goa. Miguel From: afra dias Cip is full of 'hot air and 'no substance'. Some one said such and such, will any one give more info. But nothing is forthcoming. He is a waste of time. So, Cip, get your facts right first, before you start 'stiring' on Goanet and winding people up un-necessarily. Afra. - Cip Wrote: 'Aunv Bamon Padri' and I am proud of it. Need to know whether this statement is recorded in the minutes of the meeting and who is the CASTIST who said it. All fees and expenses will be reimbursed, whoever can get me the above information. Cip
[Goanet] Caste System in Goa
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Dears, Priest bashing will not solve the caste problem, the lay people practice it more! The elections are coming. It is a time to Cast your vote and vote your caste. In an increasingly polarised electorate, the BJP has chosen its Executive Committee carefully and given all the religious groups major castes due representation. It is not for nothing that a 'Bhandari' has become the BJP state President. The Bhandari Samaj constitutes more than 40% of the vote bank. It is immaterial whether you consider the Bhandari samaj as a part of the Hindu Dharam or not...their gods are different and their temples are different and they cannot enter many of the hindu temples ! In Curtorim constituency, it is either a 'Bamon' from Curtorim or a 'Gawdo' from Raia that has won the seat. In Mapusa Constituency it has been either a 'Wani' [Vaishya samaj] Hindu or a Catholicabsolutely no other! God did not make castes, we did. Or try telling me the caste of George Bush, Margaret Thatcher, Saddam Hussain, Nelson Mandela or Samora Machel. Shall we call the 'whites' as 'Bamon' and the blacks as 'Gawdo' and the Chinese as 'Wani'. Those who complain on this net, are the ones who fell in love with a bamon girl and were not allowed to marry them. Afra. So I am disqualified from complaining on this net by virtue [vice?] of my marriage? What about a Bamon boy who was jilted by a stunningly beautiful Kunbi girl ?? Can he post about the caste system? Mog asundi Miguel From: afra dias Secondly, Bamon, Chardi or Sudir do not interfere with the day to day chores, people in Goa can seat freely anywhere in the church or playground or buses. Those who complain on this net, are the ones who fell in love with a bamon girl and were not allowed to marry them. Afra. - Joe Goa says: When an important and healthy discussion was going on Goanet about the Church and the caste system in in church, Afra de GoaUk said...If you are born in a low caste family (i.e. Kunbi Sudhir etc) and that is bothering you, ask God about that and ask him/her to put it right, not the Parish Priest, bashing the church is not going to solve age old practice.? (on 23 Jan.2007) -- Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Vasco Boy Murder Case: Shankar Tiwari also wants to turn Approver
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ Dears, Out of the 5 accused, 2 have applied to be Approvers i.e. Prosecution witnesses with plea for leniency supported by the Police. That leaves 3 more with a possibility of becoming approvers...and the Police going to the dock as Accused. After all, they are cooking up the story. Another interesting fact is that while the other four 'accused' are kept in pairs in Judicial Custody, Sunny [Whose Sonny is he , anyway?] is enjoying the custody all by himself...with nobody else to disturb his peace of mind. It pays to live in the proximity of the CM, doesn't it? Rumour mill has it that it is not about 'pampering' the minorities at all. So who will tell us why the Goa Police changed the 'numbers' allotted to the accused AFTER the visit of the CM [and Karl Vaz]to the Police Station last August to see Sonny boy? Is it time to sing , like Madhuri Dixit, Ek, do, teen,...char , panch and make 1,2 ka five ? Like Town Country Planning rules, does 'proximity' help in easy conversion? Viva Goa. Miguel JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote Vasco Boy Murder Case: Shankar Tiwari (1 of the 5 accused) Kahani meim naya 'twist' ? After Sunny Beig, now it's Shankar Tiwari who made application to the Children's court under section 306 of CrPC statting that he is ready and willing to disclose all the relevant facts concerning the criminal case. In view of this the Court be pleased to accept the accused as approver and grant pardon, the application read. Meanwhile, accused Ryan Pinto through his lawyer had objected to the application made by Al-Saleha Beig (alias Sunny) to make him approver and grant him pardon. Ryan's lawyer alleged that after Chief Minister Rane's visit to the Jail, Beig who was still then accused No.1, was shown as accused No.5 and given royal treatment, while the other accused were dealt with third degree treatment by the police. Strangely, it was also alleged that CM paid a visit and made a point only to meet Sunny. Source: GT dtd 3/2/07 The Murder took place about 6 months ago and the five accused are: Rohan Dhungat Nafiyaj Sheik Shankar Tiwari Ryan Pinto Sunny Beig From Archive: (there are other links within some photos etc) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk8/299828170/
[Goanet] HOME GARDENS 2007 :WINNERS.
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * To Goa with Love - Three unique Valentine Day packages from EXPRESSIONS Say I Love You! in style this year For details, photos and pricing check out: http://www.goa-world.com/expressions/valentines/ HOME GARDENS 2007 :WINNERS. THE WINNERS OF THE 14TH ANNUAL HOME GARDEN COPETITION ORGANISED BY THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF GOA ARE: AMATEUR GARDENERS: Winner: Mr. Nicholas Sequeira, Near Lourdes Convent, Saligao First Runner-up: Ms. Amita Nayak Salatry, Near Panchayat, Porvorim Second Runner-up: Mr. Cedric D'Souza, Behind Bougainville, Mapusa. Third Runner-up Ms. Olinda Rodrigues, Near Post Office, Cortalim-Chicalim Road. SPECIAL PRIZES: A. Professionally landscaped gardens. 1.Dr. Carmo Gracias, Near St. Joaquim Chapel, Borda-Margao 2.Ms.Krishnaveni Capt. V.S. Gopinath, Chicolna-Vasco B. Environmental Consciousness: 1. Ms. Jyothi Heblekar, PondaIntegrated Rain Water Harvesting system. C. Heritage Consciousness: 1.Mr. Victor Hugo Gomes, Benaulim. The Botanical Society of Goa will be providing technical support to the organizers of the GREEN MORMUGAO plant festival from 23 to 25 February, 2007, near St. Andrew's School, Vasco. Viva Goa Miguel Viva Goa.Say it with feni. MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/ Editor Britto's Old Boys' Assoc.
[Goanet] Parrikar kNOws All
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Regional Plan ordinance an 'eyewash': Parrikar BY HERALD REPORTER PANJIM, FEB 7 - It looks like the controversy over Regional Plan (RP) 2011 has not yet ended. The Leader of Opposition, Manohar Parrikar today charged that the ordinance issued by the State Government on February 5, amending the Goa Town and Country Planning Act, 1994 facilitating withdrawal of RP with retrospective effective is in fact is defective. Addressing a press conference, here, he alleged that the Ordinance is an eyewash and brought out in a suspicious way and in tie-up with builders' lobby. He said that use of word withdrawal does not allow de-notification of Plan from retrospective effect and the illegality of the ordinance will come to light only in the Court when affected parties will go in appeal. The court will strike it down as bad law, he predicted. According to Parrikar use of the word withdrawn in legal terms does not allow the take back powers that have been already used. He said, instead of withdrawn use of rescind or revoke would have been more apt. He suggested government should issue fresh ordinance by engaging services of top most lawyer/solicitor who will able to draft legally perfect ordinance. Where is the government? Critisising the government over its handling of yesterday's college students' agitation in the city when traffic was paralysed for almost three to four hours, Parrikar said, no senior officer came on visit even as traffic remained blocked for hours due to agitating students. He also criticised government over manhandling of girl students by cops. The government has not been able to resolve number of issue -PWD's 1800 contractors will be going on strike in the next few days - following which there will be an agitation by nursing staff whose demands have not been met by the government. Government is indifferent while Goa is burning, stated Parrikar. Lashing out at Education Minister Luizinho Faleiro, Parrikar charged that students agitation is creation of Faleiro who wants to divert people's attention. Report Ends. Dears , As any oncologist knows, rapid growth is not always good. It is one thing to have a bigger brain...and another to have a big brain tumour. The Regional Plan 2011 was drafted between 2000 and 2004...WHEN MANOHAR PARRIKAR WAS THE CHIEF MINISTER AND EX-OFFICIO CHAIRMAN OF THE tOWN COUNTRY PLANNING BOARD. Shri Prakash Phadte was the TCP Minister in the initial 2.5 years and Monsieur Babush Monserrate in the next two years. Parrikar was the Lowest Common Denominator. The Arts Commerce students who are agitiating today were denied computers when in Std. XI by the Parrikar Government. He was the CM when they were in Std XII, too. As for Police brutality, ask Girish Chodankar about the acts of Goa Police under Parrikar when the Youth Congress protested against the poor quality of roads in Ribandar. Besides Police Inspector [Panaji] Mahesh Gaokar is the same person who physically lifted Filipe Neri Rodrigues and threw him out of the Assembly during the last day of Parrikar's second stint as CM. If he had the consent to behave that way with a minister, a few students are small fry. In Konkani we have a term for a super smart person; Dhedd shanno. Never has anyone said that a 'dhedd shanno' is better than a shannoat least not in my presence. Viva Goa. Miguel
Re: [Goanet] Students Boycott Classes over Police Highhandedness
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** D'Souza, Avelino wrote: Panaji, Feb 7: Majority of the students boycotted their classes on Wednesday in most of the professional and general colleges in Goa demanding action against the police officers for handling girl agitators using male constables during the students' strike on Wednesday. The students had taken to the streets on Tuesday jamming the entire traffic in Panaji city. Alleging injustice to them in state-government sponsored cyberage scheme, around 500 students had blocked the links leading to Panaji almost for two hours before being arrested by the police. The students, gathered under banner of The Students' Forum, have decided to continue their agitation till government considers their case under cyberage scheme. The scheme, launched during BJP-regime, envisages providing computers to the college students at a mere cost of Rs 1,000. http://www.daijiworld.com/news/news_disp.asp?n_id=30326n_tit=Panaji%3A+ Students+Boycot+Classes+over+Police+Highhandedness Avelino ... Dears, It is interesting how one can create a wound, let it fester un-noticed and then cut it to expose the pus...and say to oneself What a good boy am I ! The students who were in the streets earlier this week were the ones 'given a miss' by the BJP regime that started the scheme. The students have themselves exposed who is behind All Goa Students' Forum [ any similarity with the All Goa Students' Union, or AGSU, is purely a coincidence]. The word Forum is becoming a political trade mark like that of Cricketeers...riding piggy-back on the fame of the popular 'Civic and Consumer Forum' network of GoaCAN. First it was SAVE GOA that was adopted with an extension for the future Generation, now it is the Forum. What next? The party 'computers' apparently have no UPS...they don't seem to work when out of power. Power corrupts...and absolute power has corrupted the computers completely, it seems. Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa
Re: [Goanet] Dhedd Shanno - No! Parrikar is at least Dobrad Shanno if not more !
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Dear Carmo, Perhaps, you have forgotten that Mr. Manohar Parrikar has been the Chief Minister of Goa TWICE in the past. During both his terms as CM, NOT A SINGLE student from Goa could enter any IIT. That was spread over five years...and not a single entrant in IIT. During last year, half a dozen students did. This IITian ran scared of re-introducing English in the Primary Schools to undo the error of 1992-93. This year Luizinho Faleiro mustered the guts to do it. Parrikar gave computers selectively to only Science students first and then to students of Professional colleges. Now he is fishing in murky waters as the present Government struggles to gather funds to give computers to students he left out...and will now graduate from college. Parrikar produced a bogus history VCD through the Education Dept. while he was the CM and Education Minister. He did not have the courage to give copies of the dubious VCD even to his Ministers. There were protests and demonstrations by pseudo-Nationalists against the Fontainhas Festival the last time it was held, alongside the IFFI in November, 2005. Who inspired them is common knowledge. In the election year, and dependency on catholic votes, no such protests are observed. What happened to pseudo-nationalism this year?? It is inconvenient, no?? So, on what basis are you making the prognosis? With an IIT in Metallurgy, Parrikar is perhaps best placed to advise the Coppersmiths in his Kansarvaddo neighbourhood. Even there, he may find himself inexperienced. So there. As for Dobrad , give me Chicken Dobrad at Ernesto's [ Clube Vasco da Gama], Panaji, any day. Viva Goa. Miguel , CARMO DCRUZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Miguel, We have a lot of Dhedd Shannos in Goa and yet very few Goans in IIT. That is why you are way off mark by classifing Manohar Parrikar as a Dhedd Shanno. He stands head and shoulders above all Goa Politicians today in terms of political, administrative skills and intellectual capacity. He is at least DOBRAD SHANNO if not more ! When an IITian is Chief Minister of Goa, he understands IT and the needs of the IT industry. Then all foreign and Indian IT firms will flock to Goa and provide high paying jobs for Goans. Then we will have surely attained Goa Dourada (Golden Goa) ! Its that simple ! One does not need to be a rocket scientist to understand that ! Best Regards, Dr. Carmo D'Cruz Goan, IITian, INDIAN Harbour Beach, Florida Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:10:56 -0500 From: Miguel Braganza In Konkani we have a term for a super smart person; Dhedd shanno. Never has anyone said that a 'dhedd shanno' is better than a shannoat least not in my presence. Viva Goa. Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa - Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070209/658d5dcb/attachment.htm
[Goanet] Antibiotics are useless against virus
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** The article Goa Bachao Abhiyan: A Defeat in Success? by Tomazinho Cardoz, the former Speaker of Goa Legislative Assembly, Konkani Porjecho Avaz [KPA]activist and the Secretary [and later the President] of the Dalgado Konkani Akademi, took me by surprise. Do we never really learn from experience, specially our own?? Just because a little is good, a lot is not always better. is an adage that has stood the test of time. In Marathi, this adage is converted to Ati Tithe Maati [read as in Romi lipi, not English] and can be abbreviated as ATM by those who have difficulty in pronouncing the Marathi or in remembering it. Just because GBA has been successful in spearheading a PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT to get the notified Regional Plan 2011 withdrawn with effect from its date of notification, one cannot presume that it [GBA] can also create a political transformation in Goa during the next 90 days. Even if it does achieve that, what prevents it from going the Janata Andolan-turned-Party or the Asom Gana Parishad [AGP] way? The reason why I am surprised why Tomazinho [whom I consider as my friend] wrote the piece is simple: Tomazinho was a part of the KPA leadership exactly two decades ago as I am privileged to be in the GBA now. He was party to the decision to include Adv. Uday Bhembre in the KPA leadership. Uday was, so to say, a good man in the eyes of the KPA leadership and is still a person who is close to the Catholic Churh hierarchy in Goa. Leading the hordes , mostly from Salcete and Mormugao taluka to Panaji's Azad Maidan, the KPA achieved the task of making Konkani the Official Language of Goa. The Official Language of Goa is now Konkani [read Antruzi] in the Devanagri script. This is exactly the issue that agitates Tomazinho, whether he is in the Dalgado Konknni Akademi or in the Goa Konkani Academy. Did he not fight for exactly this? So what is he fighting for AFTER achieving something that he supposedly wanted, and fought for?? That exactly is the peril for activists from a People's Movement who are tempted to join the electoral POLITICS fray to achieve greater glory. There is only vainglory in that. Dr. Oscar Rebello, Convenor of the GBA, appreciates my Botanical analogies. He is, in Cecil* Pinto's terminology, world famous all over Goa after the GBA movement hit the news like wild fire. [*Cecil Pinto is NOT the newly discovered Caecilian goaensis, though you may find him under a cashew tree this season...with his eyes swimming like that of an amphibian.;-( I do know a litle bit of Zoology.] I am pleased to present a medical one today. There is a medical equivalent to this predicament of Movement-to-Politics metamorphosis. A good ANTIBIOTIC can now cure one of a formerly incurable disease like Tuberculosis [TB]. An intra-mascular shot of Penidure [third generation Penicillin injectible] can both prevent and cure dreaded STD like Gonnhorea and Syphillis. An appropriate antibiotic is very effective against bacterial infections of any type, even bacterialdysentery. If a Cassanova, who has had a course of Penidure, begins to sleep with a pretty, adult, devout, regular temple-goer, well-endowed and willing girl from the neighbourhood he need not worry about regular STD. However, he has absolutely no protection against contracting HIV-AIDS. It is not necessary for the girl to have loose morals or to be promiscous. An innocent blood transfusion with HIV-infected blood during some minor operation ,like appendectomy or minisculectomy, will do. Any good doctor will tell you that an antibiotic, however good and advanced, cannot control a viral disease, not even a common cold or influenza. Nothing can help the poor Cassanova if he cotracts AIDS. The child, if the girl has been impregnated in the interim, is likely to be an innocent casualty. Anti Retro-viral 'cocktails' can only do so much. I have interacted with HIV-Positive children aged one month to twelve years [they rarely live longer than that] enough to know their misery and with Devanagri-Negative Romi lipi writers, who have survived twenty years of 'Official Language', to know theirs. The body Politic is 'ab initio' infected. If not, it is infected by innocent 'money transfusions' which cause 'suffocation' as the early symptom of the infection, any time during the five-year term. In the recent past, two Margao citizens have suffered from infected transfusions, the latest for the cure of jaundice. Suddenly, he was seeing
[Goanet] MGP to go to polls on its own
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** MGP to go to polls on its own, says Raut NT Staff Reporter Panaji, Feb 10 The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party will start its Janajagriti Abhiyan, a door-to-door campaign, in view of the forthcoming assembly election from February 11. The MGP president, Mr Pandurang Raut, addressing a press conference, at the party office, today said that the campaign is expected to cover 1.5 lakh houses and 6 to 7 lakh population around the state. The voters would be made aware of the illustrious past of Goa during the 17-year rule of the MGP, the pathetic present wherein the government is taking the state towards its ultimate destruction and the bright and hopeful future, which can be gifted, to the state through the forthcoming assembly polls, he added. Mr Raut, who earlier chaired the meeting of the office bearers of the party, also informed that the MGP will contest the assembly election on its own strength and would aim at winning 16 to 21 seats. The MGP has gone through bad experience by joining hands with both the Bharatiya Janata Party as well as the Congress, and at this point of time has not carried out talks with any political party for pre-election alliance, he observed. Speaking further, Mr Raut said that Goa has presently become a problem-infested state due to the wrong policy of the government. “The policy has also presented a bad image of the state to the world,” he lamented. Referring to the Regional Plan 2011, Mr Raut said that the government has only withdrawn the same and not cancelled it with retrospective effect. “The MGP demands that the controversial public document should not only be cancelled with retrospective effect but the Chief Minister should also trace the culprits who are responsible for the plan,” he demanded. Mr Raut also observed that the Congress party has stripped Mr Ramakrishna Dhavalikar, the lone MLA of the MGP, of his public works department portfolio, once its need of forming the government is fulfilled. The Industries Minister, Mr Luizinho Faleiro, at one time was so desperate to bring down the BJP government in the state, that he had approached the MGP with lucrative offers, in exchange of its support, Mr Raut said. He also stated that Mr Dhavalikar was in no way connected to all the corrupt practices that are run by the Congress government in the state. The working president of the MGP, Dr Kashinath Jalmi said that the party could easily win 16 seats at the assembly election, if it manages to garner 40,000 votes. “The Janajagriti Abhiyan will focus on this aspect,” he added.
Re: [Goanet] Dhedd Shanno - No! Parrikar is at least Dobrad Shanno if not more !
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Dear Carmo, Thank you. this is the least combative email that I have ever received from you. My reply was also marked to Manohar Parrikar. Anyway a repeat dose will not hurt him. We have had him as the CM twice, too. If Parrikar can clean up his record and not repeat his past mistakes, he would be a great CM. Alas! such things are not easy. Absolutely. The admissions to IIT this year are not the result of introduction of English in Std. I. The results will begin to show after 12 years. This year, it was the encouragement of the Goa Govt. that made the difference. Manohar Parrikar is best known as an IITian CM. His history in Metallurgical services is not at all common knowledge. Does he do anything metallurgy other than selling welding rods? Perhaps, you can fill in the details, if any. I have not heard of anything else and we live in the same town. The other IITian in Goa I know is Dinar Bhatkar. He set up the Sewage Treatment Plant [STP] at Goa University.Like most things at Goa University [abbreviated as G.U. or GU, much to the deslike of those who speak Konkani and read in Romi lipi], it does not work. The joke is that even GU does not move in G.Uand there is an IITian behind it! Of course, I know many more Goan IITians. They are goodand they are not in Goa ! I wish some of the achievers among the IITians would come back to Goa ...and make it work. Sorry, I cannot legally send you the infamous VCD GOA FREEDOM STRUGGLE. It has been withdrawn by the Directorate of Education and legal copies are not in circulation.Please ask Parrikar for a copy. I can show you the pseudo documentary from my Computer...saved from a legal copy. Only the 'Descendento' and the Mestizo claimed Portuguese parentage. The rest of us are as India as the rest...some from Gondwanaland, others from Asia Minor. No one is really native'. It is also a myth that we were all Hindus to start with. The 'Sater' worshipping Bhandari Samaj and others are not Hindus even now. Sorry. No politics for me. I will serve the society in Goa the way I can, through plants, trees, writings and books...and debate on the things that we can possibly change for the better. In my scheme of things, the inclusion of Romi lipi [Roman Script] for Konkani in all spheres [including Official Language] will help to include a sizeable population into the social mainstream. If Germans can be proud of German and Portuguese of Portuguese and the Croats of Serbo-Croat even when they fight the Serbs and the Slavs, what is wtrong with Konkani? Parrikar is welcome to be the MLA of Panaji or even CM of Goa...as l;ong as he can respect the right of other to be different from him in their way of living. We have met before and will, most likely meet again. We are both Mapxemkars, after all. Mog asundi. Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa
[Goanet] Goa Agenda 2007: Election Manifesto
*** * G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * *** T H I SS P A C EC A NB EY O U R S Advertise your Product(s) and Service(s) on Goanet S u p p o r t G o a n e t o p e r a t i o n s F o r d e t a i l s c o n t a c t : [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** After the success of the first phase of the Goa Bachao Abhiyan [Campaign]in inspiring the people of Goa to achieve their objective of getting the Regional Plan de-notified, the BJP and the MGP have started their own ABHIYAN to woo voters. The UGDP is cooking up its own recipe of mixes and fixes while the Congressmen and the NCP fight it out to determine who will rule Goa during the three days of Carnival. The winner gets to nominate the King Momo. An interaction with a cross section of people in Goa [not necessarily born in Goa or of Goan parentage, but registered voters just the same] yielded the following priorities. 1.Shift back to English as a Medium of instruction in schools that have trained faculty to handle that. Phased shift in other schools beginning with Std I from June 2008, till all primary schools [private and govt] are in English medium. Konkani or Marathi to be a compulsory second language in all classes up to Std. IV and third language in all classes thereafter up to SSC. 2. Improvement in public transport and/or parking facilities within cities 3 Improvement in eco-friendly garbage disposal. Compulsory on-site treatment of kitchen waste and sewage by large hotels and safe disposal of industrial waste. 4. Planned development of urban and rural areas to be focussed on the needs of the local people first and future in-migrants thereafter, not vice-versa. 5. Improvement in public water supply. Subsidy for low capacity domestic water pumps to those having open wells to increase the use of local water source and reduce drawal from public systems. Increase in tariff for commercial users to promote economy in use and recycling of water for other uses. 6. Introduction of courses suitable for training youth to meet the projected employment opportunies in Tourism, Hospitality, Entertainment, Pharma and IT industries. 7. Prepartion of a Vision Plan for Goa every five years incorporating therein the projected growth in employment opportunities, matching educational facilities, input requirements, production of goods and services as well as the infrastructural needs to support all this. 8. Review and revision of the Mundkar Act, 1967. Reversion of uncultivated tenanated agricultural lands to the original owners. 9. Restoring the rights of the Communidades over the land holdings In addition to the above, some persons would also like the Government of Goa to pay attention to the following: 1.Opening of the beaches to the people, free from encroachments by beach beds in the inter-tidal strip and from barriers created by beach-side commercial establishments like hotels, clubs and pubs. 2. Opening of the Adilshah Palace [old Secretariat] to the people as a heritage site cum museum or public library/reading room or any other appropriate not-for-profit public facility. 3. Amendment to the Official Language Act,1987, to include Konkani in the Roman Script in the definition. 4. Promotion of research and documentation of natural, cultural and architectural heritage of Goa through scholarships and projects to post graduate students of the appropriate institutions as well as professionals in the field. 5.Technical and financial support to owners of heritage houses to restore and maintain their houses, specially those of touristic importance or open to public for viewing during some period annually. 6. Increased subsidy on production of rice, pulses and vegetables and improvement of their procurement and distribution. 7. Termination of the subsidy on areca nut production in Goa and utilising these funds for boosting production of food crops. Four schemes of the Government in recent years that have received appreciation are: 1.Cyberage Computer scheme for students. 2. SSA Scheme for bicycles to girl students in school to promote eco-friendly and healthy travel to school and 3.Re-introduction of English as a subject from Std. I. 4.DSS scheme for pension to poor senior citizens, specailly widows. Mog asundi. Miguel
[Goanet] Fr. Moreno de Souza to get State Cultural Award.
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Flat for Sale: Mapuca, Goa (Ansabhat) - 10 min walk to Mapuca Market 2 Bedroom-Living-Dining-Kitchen-Bath-Balcony-Terrazo Floors Great Investment - Winter Getaway - Asking Canadian $ 25,000/- Contact Rosario Fernandes +1 (905) 858-0871 Fr. Moreno de Souza,sj, a noted writer in the Roman Script, using both Konkani and English languages to convey his thoughts and knowledge, will be awarded the Goa State Cultural Award for literature along with Mahableshwar Sail and Mahableshwar Redkar at a function to be held at the recently restored Ana Fonte, Margao. the award will be given by the Chief Minister of Goa in the distinguished presence of the Minister of Art Culture on 16 February, 2007. The Award consists of a Shrifal [coconut], Shawl, certificate, a memento and Rs.20,000/- in cash. The awardees will recieive a pension of Rs.1, 600 from next month onwards. Fr. Moreno de Souza was the Rector of Bom Jesus Basilica and a custodian of the relics of 'Goencho Saib' St.Francis Xavier at Old Goa for many years. He edited during the turn of the Millenium the oldest surviving Konkani periodical in any script, Dhor Mhoinneachi Rotti, exclusively published in the Romi lipi since 1915, beginning in Karachi and then moving to Mumbai before making Goa its publication hed quarters. He has also published other works in Konkani [Romi lipi only, with one book transliterated into Devanagri by the TSKK] and English. It is nice to see the State of Goa acknowledge once again the contribution of literature published in Konani Romi lipi to the preservation and development of culture and the ethos of Goa. The award comes at the fag end of his life . Still it is better than being pothumous in a society that believes in the adage Mellelle moshik bara sher dudh. Awards, except may be for gallantry and martyrdom, must go to the living. They serve as an incentive to excell by recognising the work done up to then. It is said, Four cities fight for the honour of Homer dead; four cities in which Homer begged. We can do better than that. I congratulate Fr. Moreno de Souza,sj, on his selection for this State Award and I am sure that Goans worldwide, specailly those who accept Konkani as their mother tongue, also join me in wishing him all the best. Mog asundi. Miguel Braganza
[Goanet] KONKAN CURRY: Testing Times Are Here Again
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Flat for Sale: Mapuca, Goa (Ansabhat) - 10 min walk to Mapuca Market 2 Bedroom-Living-Dining-Kitchen-Bath-Balcony-Terrazo Floors Great Investment - Winter Getaway Asking Canadian $ 31,500/- or Indian Rs 10 lakhs Contact Rosario Fernandes - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Testing Times Are Here Again. Deliver us from all evil, I pray The children in school have finished their 'Prelims', as the Preliminary Examinations are popularly called, and are readying themselves for the Goa Board of Education's final examinations to get their SSC or HSSC marks cards as proof of their fitness to progress up the academic ladder. In days of yore, the Prelims were known as the 'Form exam'. One had to conform to the minimum standards to be permitted to fill the form of application for the Board examination. Those who did not make the grade had to prepare for another year, and another examination. Filling of an election nomination was no different. One had to conform to the Party standards and only after the preliminary testing of one's loyalty to the party credo was one given the B Form to be a party candidate. Nowadays, the Prelim is a formality and the party credo is non existent, save the 'winnability' and availability factors. One cannot find the word 'winnability' in any standard dictionary: it is purely a local political jargon. It is the difference between a party ticket and rebellion or submission to the Wizard of Oz-like High Command. The irony of electoral politics is that, while we put school students to the test for clearing a single year, we succumb to temptation while electing an MLA or a Panch for messing up a period of five years. There are no prelims to test whether the candidate is fit for the main exam. While an IAS officer who serves under these elected Legislators has to be a graduate and undergo a Preliminary exam, a Main exam and an interview to boot, the people's representative only has to win at the polling booth. He needs no educational qualifications. He does not require any skill with the exclusion of manipulation or coercion or both. In fact, she or he needs no qualifications, save 'winnability'. There are no striking gender differences, except if it is a constituency reserved for women. After the success of the first phase of the Goa Bachao Abhiyan , or the Save Goa Campaign, there have been strident calls for the GBA to join the electoral fray. The GBA has successfully inspired the people of Goa to achieve their objective of getting the Regional Plan de-notified. It has had a 'ripple effect' in far flung places as Vathadev in Bicholim or Canaguinim in Quepem or Loliem in Canacona. It has awakened a sleeping giant within the Goan community. Should it succumb to the temptation that finished Praful Kumar Mahanta and the Asom Gana Parishad? Should a People's Movement' mutate into a political entity? Winnability is just one issue. There is sustainability and desirability from the social point of view that need to be considered. Closer home, what was the UGDP experience as seen from perspectives of its elected triumvirate: Matanhy, Miccky and Babush? An interaction with a cross section of people in Goa [not necessarily born in Goa or of Goan parentage, but registered voters just the same] yielded the following as the top priority: Shift back to English as a Medium of instruction in schools, beginning with Std I from June 2008, till all primary schools [private and government run] are in English medium. Some wanted Konkani or Marathi to be a compulsory second language in all classes up to Std. IV and third language in all classes thereafter up to SSC to retain the cultural roots. Others felt that English was enough in the 'Global village'. It is becoming increasingly difficult to teach the students in English and to get the graduates to write a single sentence without spelling or grammatical errors. It is not a problem of script, unlike Konkani, it is about basic knowledge of the language. Computer proficient personnel are often stuck with 'Spell check' choices like 'persecute, prosecute and prostitute'. Blame it on the medium of instruction, if you like, but what does one do if the wrong word is put before one's own name in a judicial charge sheet? Improvement in public transport and/or parking facilities within cities is a second most common priority while improvement in eco-friendly garbage disposal is a healthy third. Planned development of urban and rural areas, with a focus on the needs of the local people first and future in-migrants thereafter, is perhaps a product of the Save Goa Campaign. It was not
Re: [Goanet] Fred, Rajan, Roland, VCD and K3
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dears, Mr. Manohar Parrikar accepted the proposal of K3 and invited me to a private audition with him at the Assembly Complex on 01 March, 2007. By 'private' I mean PRIVATE..just he and me. It was 01 March, not April Fool. I am neither Churchill's brother nor joking. I am really serious...fortunately not 'dead' serious. A week ago, an interview of Mr. Manohar Parrikar was published in the Navhind Times. It contained a reference to 'judgement of error'. He told me that the VCD was perhaps an 'error of judgement'. He implied that I had also made an error of judgement in branding him 'communal' after I detected the goddamned VCD on 18 December, 2004 in a school and raised Kane. He told me that he is not communal at all, that most BJP party workers in Goa were not communal, either. He told me that the VCD was shown to the press at Hotel Mandovi in December, 2002. It was telecast on Doordarshan [National TV] on 19 December, 2002. It was based on a history book in Marathi published during Pratapsingh Rane's previous term as CM. Its script was scrutinised by Comrade Flaviano Dias and Libia Lobo Sardessai. They are not communal [just anti-church, if one may grant]. All that is TRUE, I told him. However, it is also true that the VCD ,in one burst of sudden Government efficiency, was delivered personally by the Asst.Dist Education Inspectors [ADEI] or senior officials on 17 or 18 December, 2004 with instructions to show it to the students after flag hoisting on 19 December, 2004. He DENIED that. The VCD was sent to the schools for their LIBRARY RECORDSby peronal delivery. I do not know if you can believe that. It does not go down well with me. 19 Dec. is one day in the year when the nationalist feeling[ anti-Portuguese, if one would call it] runs rife in Goa. It is a wonderful day to criticise the missionaries. Most of us are familiar with the missionary position. It brings one down on one's knees. that happened to the BJP in January, 2005. I supported Mr. Manohar Parrikar as a man of integrity, even though he was part and parcel of the BJP. Today that is tough. As Mark Twain once wrote.It is easier to find a woman who has never sinned than one who has sinned just once. Ditto for a man. Jose wrote I believe that Goans today are faced with three choices ... (1) a Rock (2) A Hard Place and (3) a third choice that Fred Noronha is threatening to come up with ...but hasn't. The third choice is very, very difficult to find in most constituencies. The MGP and the UGDP may offer some alternatives in some. I doubt the Congress and NCP can give us anyone but the 'rejects' and the 'veterans' of yesteryears...and Churchill does not even know how to say, Where's the Party tonight? Charisma without intelligence is like advertising without a product...what can one profit if there is no saleable product? We will have to 'weigh' our choices...and choose the lightweight...he is ithe easier burden to bear for five years. The heavy-weights have given us spondylitis just keeping track of their actions on the internet! The only choice that I see is what we have decided to do: elect anyone that we see best of the bad choices...and ensure that they perform once elected. Our job is not now but post elections. Some one has to SAVE GOA on a daily basis: it better include each one of us who want to be saved. The rest be damned in the icy regions of apathythe Siberia and hell of most people who call themselves as Gone's...ooops... Goans. We have gone that way before. Mog asundi. Miguel
[Goanet] The Question of Schooling/Education and the Problem of Generalisation
a solution, as there is no one single solution to the question/problem of education. COMMENT: The former PM of UK, BENJAMIN DISRAELI, once said T CONCEIVE, I CONCIEVE AND I CONCEIVE...BUT I BRING FORTH NOTHING. That is what ails discourse in Goa too. We need action. CHANGE. Worldwide there is angst about the quality of education. On one side, the debate is of the value of humanities focusing on critical thinking, and on the other side on the importance of professional education driven by specific skills suitable for current economy. Economic transitions put focus and pressure on educational systems. Education has never ceased to be apolitical. It is the nature of the beast. However, alert and involved citizens can tame the political animal in education. Are there any volunteers to join me to undertake a comprehensive study of the education outcomes in Goa. Those interested may e-mail me privately. Basilio Monteiro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) COMMENT; There is no need to re-invent the wheel. We need to study how the wheel works...and make it work for us. If you want to do that, I am with you. A group of us are already working on lullabys and stories for children in Konkani...instead of just fueling the script debate in Konkani. An action is better than a thousan debates. Mog asundi. Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa - Heres a new way to find what you're looking for - Yahoo! Answers -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/attachments/20070306/21bd9baa/attachment.html
[Goanet] Nike 'just does it' for Konkani
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Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May
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Confirm your bookings early or miss-out
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Dears,
Ella Castellino's voice on the TV says Rav, Patrao, rav {Wait, Sir, wait}
and you can wait no more! The BEST buses, the cricketers and the Lorna
mimicking voice with the Chris Perry style music draws one out. It nice that
NIKE thought of us...Konkani lovers when even the state government is
pretending to sleep over our wake up calls.
In an era when Bollywood is swamping the West, the Konkani music can work
wonders. Let this be the first among equals to follow.
Viva Goa.
Miguel
Nike 'just does it' for Konkani
BY MARCUS MERGULHAO
PANJIM, MARCH 3 - Konkani and cricket is the unlikeliest of combinations but
strangely football-crazy Goa has suddenly found itself in the cricket
spotlight with the latest Nike commercial, released as a prelude to the
World Cup .
Nike took just a minute and 59 seconds to blend the two into a powerful, and
hugely successful concoction that Nike believes is amongst their best
commercials. And, with the entire globe of cricket-watching lovers dancing
to the new Nike commercial, which features a remix of late Chris Perry's
song Bebdo, Nike seems to have got it right.
Nike's latest advertisement exploding on television screens is its first
cricket commercial. The commercial captures the spirit of Indian street
cricket with a heady mix of great visuals and lively music.
Shot in Karjat, near Mumbai, the surprise element in Nike's commercial is
not cricket - it was always a question of when, not if - but a Konkani song
in the background that catches immediate attention.
I have grown up listening to Konkani songs. Somehow, a lot of the songs of
the 70s, mainly Lorna's, stuck in my head all these years and I thought it
would be a great tribute to my village and my roots to showcase the richness
of Konkani music in a truly world class advertisement for a truly global
brand, Agnello Oswin Dias, Senior Vice-President of J Walter Thompson told
Herald.
The Sarzora-born, Mumbai-based brain behind the Nike commercial first played
Bebdo to his director - Abinay Deo - in his car on a Mumbai road.
He was truly blown by it. We decided to never broach the idea before hand
with anybody but just put it on to the film when we finished editing and
send it to the client all the way to Portland, Oregon, USA, informs
Agnello.
Since the lyrics of late Chris Perry's Bebdo - sung by Lorna - would not go
with the visuals in the film, Agnello re-wrote the words himself to match
the intensity of the game and the commercial.
Thereafter, it was re-composed with Ram Sampat.
Ella Castellino was chosen to sing the catchy number, and the singer - with
roots in Assagao - cannot stop raving about the experience. We had a blast
during the recording, Castellino told Herald in a telephonic conversation
from Mumbai.
Mog asundi,
MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa
Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist
Botanical Society of Goa
Re: [Goanet] If Parrikar becomes CM
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dear Carmo, You need to get the chronology checked. Manohar Parrikar has already been the CM of Goa TWICE before..so your sabbatical can only be during his THIRD term as CM, not First. That is already history! I wish you all the luck in bringing PCCE to the IIT standards. the Society of Pilar can do with some expert help. I for one, would call upon all Goans abroad who could contribute anything to Goa's development , to consider a sabbatical in their native land...irrespective of who is ruining...ps..ruling the state. Mog asundi. Miguel From: CARMO DCRUZ Well, I am going to spend a sabbatical in Goa during Manohar's first term as Chief Minister and help stuff the IITs with Goan Students ! We may even start an IIT in Goa and bring up the Padre Conceissao College of Engineering (PCCE) in Verna to IIT Standards !
[Goanet] Long live the alliance?
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Cong workers join NCP PANJIM, Mar 8: Around 400 workers of the Congress Block from Cortalim constituency joined the Nationalist Congress Party on Thursday affirming their support to the latter and severing ties with the former for a change. [H] The Congress-NCP alliance seems to have turned as cannibalistic as the MGP-BJP alliance of yore and the UGDP-BJP alliance of the recent past. If one want to know what happens to a reasonably honest and upright politician, a case study of the curently Cortalim MLA should suffice. One could , obviously, also benchmark Mr. Vinayak Naik of Tivim Constituency and compare with the present and immediate past MLAs of Tivimor compare Dr. Jack Sequeira with the probable candidates for his erstwhile Santa Cruz constituency. The Margao Municipal chairman's election should be quite indicative of the future alliances. Mog asundi Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa
[Goanet] Women's Day....out
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Victoria to unite ex-women MLAs PANJIM: The lone woman MLA of Goa Assembly and Deputy Speaker Victoria Fernandes has decided to take an initiative to force political parties to give women candidates tickets in this assembly election. She has decided to bring together all ex-women MLAs and make a representation to all authorities concerned, Mrs Fernandes said at a press conference here today. [H] Dears, There is no reservation for women in elections beyond the Panchayat/ZP and Municipal levels. So the Administration can do nothing about it. Victoria has to petition her own party, Congress [which, incidentally, is headed by a powerful woman] to set the electoral trend by nominating 14 women candidates in Goa to start the trend. The BJP is not having a gender hang-up. It is , however, sure to nominate more Cristaos [Catholic by name if not by religion as was the case of Flaviano Dias of the VCD fame] to show that it is more SECULAR than the Congress. Actually, the Congress is not Secular, it is agnostic...save its undying faith in money and winnability! I think the part will be given a decent burial in the forthcoming election. I do not know if the MGP, the UGDP or the yet to be confirmed SGDP can make a major impact. Our Legislative Assembly will, in all probability, be like a prime studd...well hung! The electorate has a choice between the Devil, a hard place , a rock and the deep seaany of which may be 'converted' for any other use without prior consent. Asim sao coisas do Mundo...and a hung Assembly is the best solution...we could do with another spell of President's Rule. Last time round, Lt.General [Retd] JFR Jacob gave us two Wild Life Sanctuaries. This time, S.C. Jamir may help us to do SHUDDHIKARAN [reconversion] of the lands illegally converted for Estates, Hotels, Cricket Grounds and SEZ. May Mummy Victoria get her plea acceded to...even if it means that Jenifer Monserrate gets a ticket in Santa Cruz and Mummy faces Parrikar in Panaji The best thing that the women politicians can do is to enroll more and more women in the party, train them at the Panchayat and ZP levels and inspire them to achieve. These candidates must learn two essentials of politics: 1. emotional oratory in Konkani [like Churchill] and 2. manipulative use of statistics [like Rane, Parrikar and Ravi]. It just does not matter if one or both the aspects are totally fake...as long as the voters believe you. Of course, one needs to find a 'sponsor'. Nothing wrong with that. Village football games, the kits, prizes as also the Narkasur effigies and revelry are all sponsorred. It costs money. Everything is about money, honey. Mog asundi. Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa
Re: [Goanet] Speech of Pratap Naik, sj on 10 March
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Enjoy your holiday in Goa. Stay at THE GARCA BRANCA from November to May There is no better, value for money, guest house. Confirm your bookings early or miss-out Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. Dears, Fr.Pratap Naik,sj, who is fluent in Konkani and writes in three scripts,Devanagri, Romi and Kannada scripts, has spoken his mind. Much as I would have preferred that he had chosen to use other fora than the confusion of Churchill Alemao's 10 March, 2007, rally in Margao, the content of his speech needs to be read, re-read and understood. The protagonists of Konkani in Devanagri are opposed to the language written in Roman script. They have no aversion to Marathi and its fold encompasses persons who keep getting awards for journalism, books and lyrics in Marathi. The linkage between Romi and Marathi is created only for public consumption. The Marathi bogie is to frighten the Romi script protagonists. That is all. Nothing more and nothing less. If not let the Devanagri protagonists join us in making at least half the Govt. primary schools [GPS] shift to Konkani. Right now there are hardly 70 GPS in Konkani [mostly in Salcete] and more than 700 GPS in Marathi. Viva Goa. Miguel Mog asundi, MIGUEL BRAGANZA, Mhapsa Horticulturist/Editor/Columnist Botanical Society of Goa
[Goanet] Congratulations Bonaventure D'Pietro
Dears, Bonaventure D'Pietro, author, novelist, journalist , editor and musician richly deserves all praise fr a life time dedicated to Konkani. All his works are in Roman script as he knows not other scripts to write his mother tonge, Konkani. I have the good fortune of knowing Bonaventure, whom I first heard playing on his saxaphone at the Sao Joao boat parade in Siolim a few years ago. I look back with pride at the continued association with him. You can read about Bonaventure...and also his writings... on Goencho Ulo hosted by Leo D'Melo at www.fullerlife.in There is even a snapshot of him there. Viva Goa. Mog asundi. Miguel
[Goanet] Konkan Curry: Rapidly Undermining Goa
Rapidly Undermining Goa Where is the social responsibility? By Miguel Braganza The recent amendment to Section 16 of the Goa Town Country Planning Act, 1974, to exempt projects and works of Central government and State government from conforming to the Regional Plan is the proverbial 'last straw that broke the camel's back'. Surprisingly, this event occurred even without the mock dhirio in Penha de France last March. The Task Force on the Regional Plan 2021 was effectively bypassed, nay dispensed of its Vas deferens, under local anesthesia. It watched as helplessly as the people of Goa used to watch rape of their land by builders and mine owners, under the sterilized garb of development, until their political vasectomy was clinically reversed by the 73rd amendment to the Constitution of India. A local newspaper wrote thus: GBA insiders say that the government weakened the Task Force mandate with this Bill. That is a misconception or, rather, a non-conception. Vasectomy does not weaken the individual; it merely renders him impotent to perpetuate his species. The eunach is as sturdy as the individual he was before. In fact, it is said that there is a vast difference between the stallion and the gelding. The gelding is not just stronger, he is also better behaved. Castration was a recommended practice among domestic boars, horses and harem keepers. During the era of the Adilshah, Panjk-halli's Palacio de Idalcao boasted of some great harem. They were fit as a fiddle, but minus one string. They had an important Task to perform and were a force to reckon with. History tells us that the building that houses the present day Directorate of Accounts, or the erstwhile Fazenda, was their territory. The much maligned Mormugao Port Trust [MPT]authorities have been better than the Aam Admi Government and decided not to go ahead with their proposal to construct cruise terminal at Vasco bay and relocate fishing jetty at Vaddem following the opposition from the local people but to build such a facility to the west of breakwater. According to Dr. Claude Alvares, the first mining lease in Goa was operated in 1929 though most iron ore mines became operational in the 1950s and some leases were never mined. Now, in addition to these 700-odd leases there are 480 applications for fresh prospecting in Goa. No mine is prevented from obtaining Environmental Clearance, even if all the villagers gather at the Public Hearing and unanimously oppose the operation of the lease. This is not democracy, said Dr.Claude Alvares. However, this is today's reality in Goa. Mr. Ramesh Gawas, a school teacher in Bicholim taluka's mining belt and an activist involved in the Save Vatadev campaign to protect one of the last frontiers of Mother Nature from the onslaught of mining, says that mining will desertify the green hills for ever. Says he, We are not fighting against the mine owners alone. Make no mistake, when one fights against the mines one actually challenges the State that backs the mining industry to the hilt. Yogita Mehra, Associate Fellow of TERI [The Energy Resources Institute], Goa presented the findings of a Goa government funded research project Iron Ore Mining In Goa. The report deals with governance in mining that includes the policies and management decisions of the various stakeholders like the Government authorities, the mining companies the Panchayati Raj Institutions[PRIs] and Civil Society Organisations [CSOs] that impact on the quality of life in the mining areas and the state. The report concludes that there is poor to no monitoring and enforcement of the laws governing mining operations and a total lack of policy. In fact, the Governments are at the mercy of powerful mining lobby that has a tremendous economic clout in Goa. In the above scenario, the mining companies adopt ad hoc solutions to the issues raised by the people from time to time. There is inadequate management of the rejection dumps and ore stacks. The problems are aggravated by the outsourcing of transport [trucks, barges, etc] with no responsibility for damage done by the BPO units that may be ill-equipped to deal with issues like ore spillage on the roads, dust pollution, road accidents, etc. The companies generally suffer from a lack of a clearly defined policy. The whole industry is driven by a desire to maximize profitability with little, if any, sense of corporate responsibility. The local community is not without blame. Neither the PRIs nor the local community organizations have a long tern vision for the village and its people. They are happy with the ad hoc compensation with not a thought spared for what happens when mining operations stop at some point in the future, as has happened for a number of mines operated in the 1950s and 1960s, that are being re-started now. The local community is not educated on the laws of the land and are easily tempted
[Goanet] Goanet News Bytes : Matanhy curses Goa's politicians... Politician organises dinner in Cecil's Aldona.
Dears, I was just going through the archives and came across this gem on the eve of a public meeting of common people in Benaulim [hopefully without politicians] and on the morning after the Aldona MLA organisedand sponsored ... dinner for the members of the Mumbai-based ALDONA ASSOCIATION that celebrated its 125th anniversary in darkness and on empty stomachs after the caterer cut off the generator and refused to serve snacks or dinner, for which he was reportedly paid in advance. The function was supposed to be at some open air venue at Panarim, near the old St. Thomas Primary School and St. Bridget's Insitute, but had to be shifted as permission to hold a public even was withdrawn the previous day, apparently fearing a law and order problem. It is going to be along story that will definitely be serialised in the newspapers. Right now, you can check out the locations from Cecil Pinto's article from the GT reproduced by Frederick Noronha below. Mog asundi. Miguel Frederick Noronha (FN) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ## # Don't just read the news...discuss it. Learn more about Goa via Goanet # # Goanet was setup in 1994 and has spent the last decade building a # # lasting Goan non-profit, volunteer-driven network in cyberspace. # # Visit the archives http://www.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet/ # # To join, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask to join Goanet. # ## [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] [GOANET NEWS BYTES * SEPT 11, 2005 * DATELINE GOA] * Compiled in public interest by Frederick Noronha *** o Sonia Gandhi okays consititution of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) as well as a Goa Pradesh Election Committee. Six vice presidents are M K Shaikh, Domnic Fernandes, Luis Alex Cardozo, Moti Dessai, Uday Bhembre and Shambu Bhau Bandekar.Rupa Bhakta is treasurer. (Herald) POLITICIANS HAVE BECOME COMMISSION AGENTS, says Matanhy Saldanha. In an interview with Peter Raposo and Bosco de Souza Eremita (Vavraddencho Ixtt) said he didn't support the Congress because I don't want a polarization of forces. I want the people of Goa to remain united as they were, and if anybody attempts to divide, then I will not be a party to such political designs. Asked if the BJP is communal and had been trying to saffronise government and education, he says, Every government is the same. Every government has its subtle biases. It is for the people to fight these biases even by coming out to the streets. However, it is time we stop talking about communalism if we really want to be secular and come together for the good of the people at large. He adds: The way things are going on, politicians are out to sell Goa once and for all. This is very painful to me. I love Goa and I always fought for its welfare. o Declare Dabolim permanent airport, urges ex-legislator Victor Gonsalves. (H) o Anger could be harmful, warns US-trained counsellor Fr Abraham SJ. The Jesuit was former principal of St Brittos.(H) o Workshop to explore adolescent lifestyles at St Xavier's. H o If you get caught with a call girl, call the minister, says the Gomantak Times. (GT) o Writes Dr Oscar Rebello: The nobility of the (medical) vocation weakens when it acquires a business-like character. Parra village panchayat (in Bardez) objects to inclusion of its area under the Planning and Development Authority. (NT) Saving Sanjivani: Navhind Times carries an article on how to salvage Goa's only sugar mill. It was set up by the first chief minister of Goa, late Dayanand Bandodkar, hoping that large-scale sugarcane cultivation would lead to rapid development of Goa's rural areas, following western Maharashtra. (Nikhil U Dessai, MD of Sanjivani Sahakar Sakhar Karkhana Ltd, in NT) o Prof Maria de Jesus dos Martires Lopes will speak on 'Goan Society of the 18th and 19th Century, a Successful Multi-Culturality?', Fundacao Orient, Sept 15, 6 pm. (NT) - DEATHS OBITUARIES - CARMONA: Francisco da Costa of Xiro. Husband of Alice, father/in-lw of Einstein/Sarojini, Muriel/Jerry, John/Natalie, Suraj. - IN A LIGHTER VEIN: Taking a tour of Aldona - Cecil Pinto shared his idea of an ideal tour of Aldona, the Bardez village, with Aldona-Net recently: I have often taken friends over to my parent's house in Goncoi at Aldona. Sometimes these guests have either never been to Aldona, or have visited fleetingly. I take such people on a brief pre-lunch tour of Aldona either in my van or on bike/s. Below is my normal route. I may drop or add some points of interest depending on the
Re: [Goanet] Rajan Narayan's fantasies
Dears, The TIMES OF INDIA , Goa Edition of 8 May, 2008, published the results of a survey done for it by SYNOVATE INDIA [which according to the report is a leading market research agency] Among other details it has a Pie-chart with 28% of the Pie devoted to Manohar Parrikar. In contrast, the Parrikar supporting Pop singer, Remo Fernandes, could garner only 17 % of the Pie. Churchill Alemao gets a wafer thin slice of the Pie. Incidentally, the report has a quote from Manohar Parrikar on the results. Was it PURPOSIVE sampling wherein the findings are decided first and sampling is done to justify the pre-determined result? The TOI does not tell us what was the SAMPLE SIZE or the RANDOMISATION process to avoid bias in the sampling for the survey. It only tells us that the sample population was based in Goa and between the ages of 20 and 40 years. The respondents were spread over Panaji, Margao, Mapusa, Calangute, Vasco and Old Goa. There is a definite URBAN bias in the sample surveyed as only two of the six [33.33 %] locations of sampling is in Revenue villages of Calangute and Se-Old Goa. Calangute is almost a miniature metropolis with a huge foreign and domestic tourist presence ...and influence. Old Goa is not much different. One does not even know the interpretation of the term based in Goa. Is it permanent residence or staying in Goa for the day ...with a hotel room for an address? It is a pity that the recent convert to TOI-bashing, due to the perceived journo-poaching giving Rajan's Observer a Southern disComfort, has been identified for the ICONoclasm. May be we should talk about the Ladies Toilet in the oHeraldo again. Did a stinking toilet make the journo leave the Observer and make the Editor belatedly raise a stink about TOI? If Manohar Parrikar is replacing SFX as an icon in Goa, he should be either canonized or cannonized. Mog asundi. Miguel Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 03:08:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Carvalho Subject: Re: [Goanet] Rajan Narayan's fantasies Manohar Parriker, the youth Icon for Goa? I'm sure a survey conducted of Goan women too would reveal Manohar Parriker as the icon of their dreams. He's handsome, charming and just the sort of rogue, women fall for. On that count, he has my vote as well. If I interpret the word icon to encompass role-model as well, does it mean there is a paucity of role-models in Goa? Here is a man who wears the RSS uniform to public functions and recently proclaimed the RSS to be his church. I am assuming, the sample of the poll did not consist of Muslims, Christians, Marxists, non-Brahmins, Konkani or Marathi speakers, regional party stalwarts or any other nasty individuals who believe in democracy, much less a secular one. Chus, selma - Bollywood, fun, friendship, sports and more. You name it, we have it.
[Goanet] Hundred percent results
Dears, The detention statistics of Std. VIII and Std.IX and the admission policy of the school from Std.V upwards tells the true story of the HUNDRED PERCENT RESULTS. In rare cases, as described by Frederick below, the leaving certificate does the trick. Among, the duds who had to leave St.Britto HS, one became a Mayor of Mapusa and another heads a very successfull chain of hotels and travel agencies. Both of them obtained FIRST CLASS marks at SSC from schools that St.Britto HS management then considered as third class. So much for the theory of Jesuit Education Paradigm [JEP] that Jesuit institutions often prove by default rather than by compliance. In my own town there was a Higher Secondary School that produced a large number of FIRST CLASS [above 60%] results for Std.XII-Science by two methods: 1. Admitting only students with distinction [above 75%marks] at SSC. and 2.Ensuring that all the students obtained 30/30 or 29/30 marks in the practical exams,specially in Chemistry. Once the GCET ranking replaced the Std. XII-Science marks to determine admission in professional colleges, the HSS no longer had any interest in ensuring the full marks in practicals, even when the same teachers continued for some more time. The institution is managed by the business community and had a politician to head it. Obviously, it knows its business but not education. The then Minister for Education and CM put his son in that HSS in 2001. The Chairman of the Goa Board of Education put his son elsewhere in the same year. Clearly a difference in perception of education Damodar HSS-Margao and Dempo HSS-Panaji are among institutions that follow the same policy for admission as above. Hopefully, the similarity was not extended to the conduct of the practicals, also. When my sister became a Headmistress in DSE schools, she proved that she had unlearnt all that she might have learnt while teaching at St.Britto HS as a fresh graduate. The weak students were coached during remedial classes [a thing that is half-heartedly encouraged by the Goa Education Department] even if it meant extra work for herself and the teachers, some of them unwilling partners in the students' progress. Obviously, all students were not equal to the task and, in the initial years, many of them failed ... bringing down the passing percentage of the school. However, two points need to be noted: 1.More students passed SSC, in absolute numbers. and 2. It is better to be SSC failed than to be detained in Std.IX. At least one has the satisfaction of appearing for a SSC Board exam once in one's lifetime. You bet there are may SSC students, passed or failed, who bless her name for their achievement. The school is not worse off for the experience. The ABC of Education is Attitudenal and Behavioural Change. If the process of schooling has not brought about a POSITIVE change in attitude, AND the behaviour of the student is not BETTER than it would have been but for the schooling, it is NOT education. Learning is not education. Change in attitude is education that shows through one's behaviour. There is no difference in the attitude of a rich miser and a poor miser or a mafia don and a slum lord, a prostitute and a call girl. Education can change that.Neither distinction marks in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Mathematics nor even in Value Education and Theology can change attitudes. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:07:06 +0530 From: Frederick [FN] Noronha * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Goanet] Hundred percent results Do some institutions attain 100% by keeping out 'weak' students from their portals? Avelino was in school -- actually, in the same class -- with me. He knows that in 1978, our school, Britto's, also attained 100% results at the SSC. But that was obtained by slaughtering all but 25 pupils the previous year. I respect the work of institutions like Don Bosco's night school (Panjim) and crafts complex (Sulcorna), the Rudolf Schwartz initiatives at Siolim and Pernem, and the like... which are mean to create some options and jobs for those whom mainstream education sees as weak students. --FN 2008/5/11 D'Souza, Avelino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hundred percent results 11 May 2008, 0255 hrs IST,Anabelle Colaco,TNN PANAJI: Uday Bhalikar can't stop smiling. A few minutes after the Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) results were announced on Saturday afternoon, the principal of Damodar Higher Secondary School of Science in Margao got to know that his college had once again scored cent percent results. Up north, Fr. Paul D'Souza is similarly pleased as punch. Don Bosco Higher Secondary School of Science, Arts and Commerce, Panaji bagged a full score in commerce and over 90 percent in science and arts. - Forgot the famous last words? Access your
[Goanet] Opinion Poll
Dears, There are some things that NRI Goans or NRGs can do. 1. Forward [scan and forward , if hard copy] any promos from builders for bungalows or gated colonies in Goa to the netgroups and individuals/organisations in Goa. 2. Divide your family property amicably and appropriately. Do not sell it becuse your egos will not let you give your share to your brother or brother-in-law at a reasonable price. 3. Divide your wealth among your children in your lifetime. My grandfather divided his inheritance and acquisitions on the death of his wife ...when my father was just six years old! there are laws that guarantee usufruct. In any case the best laws cannot prevent your children from dumping you in a home for the aged as you will be too old to survive a long drawn court case ...that may not even be settled in your life time. There is no substitute for good upbringing. Foreign education for one's children is more often a liability than an asset. 4. Have a good word for your neighbour who is fighting the builders lobby. Money is not everything. 5. If the movement needs money, give appropriately, not excessively. 6. Do not preach, suggest with humility. It is the man, woman or child in the street who bears the brunt [In Colomb the other day, a truck driver dropped his pants and threatened to rape the women picketing the mining trucks. It is not funny. Many builders employ Bouncers to keep off nosey villagers]. Their sacrifice cannot be compensated by your donation. Just put yourself in their place and put a value to it. If it is cheaper for you to do it, come and do it yourself! 7. Encourgae your friends and relatives in Goa to participate. This is a REFERANDUM. Make no mistake about that. it is either the Gram Sabha or the Developer that will be supreme. Most of the politicians, from the Panchayat to the top, are already a part of the Development nexus. 8. All people are not saints. There is no saint without a past and no sinner without a future. Judge the present actions, take precautions against a repetition of the past. Trust no Future, however pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead. Act, act in the living Present, Heart within and God o'erhead. That is what H.W. Longfellow wrote long time ago. If is the eternal truth. [Atheists may substitute the word God with Bird ...to maintain the rhyme and meter of the poem ;-) ] Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 21:57:27 +0400 From: Arwin Mesquita [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Opinion Poll To: Goanet [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject - Opinion Poll. 1967 was a historical year for Goa, when Goans resolved to preserve their identity, via the opinion poll. Today, Goa is facing threats which threatens to wipe out the latter achievement and the efforts of those who fought for our identity in 1967. If the current rate on migration land sales are not controlled, Goa will no longer be with Goans. It is now or never for Goa. Goans are rising and I request more to join the cause; particularly the non-residents in whatever way they can. Arwin Mesquita, Abu Dhabi. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] DO NOT RUBBISH THE RIGHTS OF THE GRAM SABHAS
Dears, Section 6, sub-section 4 of the Goa Panchayat Raj Act, 1994 makes the resolutions of the Gram Sabha [that are not contrary to the Constitution of India] BINDING on the Village Panchayat. Thje right to give CONSTRUCTION LICENCE and/or OCCUPANCY CERTIFICATE is vested on the Sarpanch of the Village Panchayat bound by the Gram Sabha Resolution. If there is any law in force invalidating this, the law needs to be amended for the Constitution of India is supreme and any law that is ultra vires of the Constitution cannot survive judicial review. It is Constitution of India Central Law/Act State Law/Act Rules Order Circular. Babu Azgaokar, who has not been able to get justice for the Goa Home Science College girls [one of whom is allegedly his daughter], who were reportedly molested on the train in Rajasthan a few months ago ...and who has traversed the path from Congress to BJP and back to Congress in less than a decade ... is hardly the person to be trusted to protect Goa's ethos. If money and position means more to him than the self respect of his own daughter, what can one say of this man? The tail piece of Tomcat in the Ashwin Tombat edited Herald may be good reference material in this context. Mog asundi. Miguel Pravin Sabnis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 73rd Amendment to the Constitution was intended to be the culminating point of the evolutionary process of the decentralisation of democratic power. The Amendment has provisions which are of great significance that relate to socio- economic planning. These include preparation of development plans, implementation of development schemes, power to levy and collect taxes, constitution of State Finance Commissions to review financial position of Panchayats, delineation of subjects which call be assigned to the Panchayats and most importantly, the invalidating of any law in force which is inconsistent with the Amendment. The State Government was expected to amend its laws to make them in harmony with the 73rd amendment. However, on the contrary the successive Governments of Goa have subverted both the letter and the spirit of the historic 73rd Amendment. And now the morally bankrupt politicians and their agents and advisors are crying foul when the villagers are exercising their fundamental right by proactively participating in the Gramsabhas. They are increasingly rubbishing the legalities of the Gram Sabha resolutions. The undemocratic vested interests need to realize that what is happening at most Gramsabhas is not the case of âMight is rightâ. It is rather the case of âRight is Mightâ. When the political and administrative leadership actively encourages illegalities and immoralities, how can we fault the villagers for becoming belligerent and vigilant to the attacks on their land and livelihoods, culture and environment, villages and forests. Despite the huge movements against the Regional Plan and the SEZs, the intentions of land grab and violations are getting greater support from the powers that be. We must all join the solidarity of the Goans in the quest to salvage what remains in the wake of the brutalization of our motherland. And we must do everything that will compel our Government to validate the letter and the spirit of the 73rd Amendment. in solidarity Pravin Pravin K. Sabnis visit: www.unlearningunlimited.blogspot.com www.poems-pravinsabnis.blogspot.com www.monday-muse.blogspot.com www.amkanakasez.blogspot.com Recent Activity 7 New Members Visit Your Group Yahoo! News Latest News Check Videos and much more Yahoo! Groups Start a group in 3 easy steps. Connect with others. Yahoo! Groups Start a group in 3 easy steps. Connect with others. . __,_._,___ - Messenger blocked? Want to chat? Here is the solution.
[Goanet] Fruit Festival starts on Friday 16 May opp. INOX, Panaji
BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF GOA c/o Dhempe College, Miramar-Panaji KONKAN FRUIT FEST 2008 The 5th annual KONKAN FRUIT FEST will be held from 16 to 18 MAY, 2008, at the Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji. The Botanical Society of Goa is facilitating this event held jointly with the Corporation of City of Panaji, Directorate of Agriculture, ICAR-Goa, Goa Horticulture Corporation, Regional Fruit Research Station [KKV]-Vengurla, NGOs, farmers as well as other individuals and agencies in the Konkan region. Dr. Heman Y. Karapurkar, former Director of Agriculture and Chairman of GPSC, is the event Chairman. Competitions in fresh ripe fruits [Mangoes, Chickoos, Guavas, Cashew, Rose-apples, Jamun, Velvet Apples, Egg Fruit, etc with each entry to contain SIX fruits including at least two ripe fruits to be delivered at the venue on 15 May afternoon between 3 P.M.and 6 P.M. or 16 May between 8.00 A.M. and 9.00 A.M.] will be judged on 16 May morning and prizes given on 18 May evening. See Shrihari Naik Kurade's collection of mango varieties ...some of them allegedly extinct. Jams, juices, squashes, preserves, candy, wine of fruits of the Konkan in 100 ml or 200 ml bottle/container for competiton. entries to be submitted by 3.00 P.M. on Friday 16 May. Fruit eating competitions [on-the-spot] on 17 May at 4.00 P.M. and 18 May morning at 11.00 A.M. the participants have to bring the ripe fruits, which will be weighed before and after the TWO MINUTES eating period. Highest net weight eaten will get the prize for banana, papaya, watermelon and mango eating competitions.Use of knives or other tools is prohibited. There is no entry fee. Competitors must bring their own fruits. We already have a few confirmations. There will be stalls selling fruit plants, fruits and fruit products like juices, ice-creams, etc at the venue. Arolkar Fruits Nursery, Kudal, Vikas Nursery, Pilar Nature Farm, Self Help Groups [SHGs] and other agencies will be participating. Lumina Lobo from Siolim will be there with her usual cashew and jamun fruit beverages plus special Green Mango Panna, Mango Squash. Dr. John Carmo Rodrigues, Ph. D, with his fruit specialities. A leading Organic Farmer and vermi-culture trainer, Mohan Tendulkar from Malkarne-Sanguem, will display and sell his products. Arolkars will have a range of products and boxes of choice mangoes on sale at the venue. Exhibition of technology and fruits by Directorate of Agriculture, ICAR-Goa and Regional Fruit Research Station [KKV]-Vengurla, will be a highlight at this year's fruit festival. After 2003, this is the first time the Zonal Agriculture Offices are playing an active role in the Konkan Fruit Fest. It has the makings of a grand success for all the players in the fruit circuit in the Konkan. Visit www.goaworld.com . It will have something interesting for you form its archives. For details contact President of BSG Dr. K.G. Hiremath [94238 35182] or Treasurer Anand Jadhav [94238 83578] or Dr. H.Y.Karapurkar [9225903754]. Dr. H.Y.Karpurkar Dr. K.G. Hiremath Event ChairmanPresident BSG - Messenger blocked? Want to chat? Here is the solution.
[Goanet] Rare Goan Mango varieties
Dears, A few years back a columnist in the Mumbai Mid Day wrote thus:There are two types of people in this world: those who love mangoes, and those who are slightly touched! Those who love mangoes might have heard of the varieties listed below. If any one of you has seen the fruits of these varieties in recent years, please let us know. Perhaps, we can save one more variety for posterity. Mog asundi. Miguel neil rangel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I came across this article by Fernando do Rego..here's the links.. http://www.colaco.net/1/FdeR_GoaMango1.htm http://www.colaco.net/1/FdeR_GoaMango2.htm http://www.colaco.net/1/FdeR_GoaMango3.htm http://www.colaco.net/1/FdeR_GoaMango4.htm The same article can be found even in Portuguese..for Goans who speak it.. http://www.colaco.net/1/FdeR_GoaManga1.htm He mentions these varieties..some 106 in all of which the real number of varieties may be 75(some probably having more than one name)..Mr P A Mathew found 47..Where would the rest be.. Abreu, Afonsa, Afonsinha, Amini, Anands, Araujo, Araup, Areca, Aruda, Aurea, Babio, Barreto, Bastarda, Bolo, Bombio, Brindão, Burgó, Camões, Carreira, Carreira Branca, Chimut, Cidrão, Colaço Branca, Conde, Costa, Cola, Custodio, Derrubada, Diniz, Dom Bernardo, Dom Fernando, Dom Filipe, Dom João, Dourashy;do, Dourada, Dulce, Durbate, Ferrão, Figueiredo, Filipina, Fottio, Frederico, Frias, Furtado; Gargó, Godgó, Japão, Jerónimo, Jesuíta, Joanni-Parreira, José, Kapri, Madame, Malaia, Mainato, Malgessa (Eccondó Malgessa and Pocddó Malgessa), , Marichenan, Marchon, Matekin, Mateus, Matutina, Máxima, Miranda, Mirió, Mogri, Mozambique, Mrina; Naik, , Nossa Senhora Agua-de-Lupe; Oliveira; Papel Bela, Papel Branco, Pires, Porto, Reário, Rebello, Reinol, Rosa, Rosário, Salgadinha, Santana, Santiago. Severino, Sonar, Temudo, Timor, Timoteo, Toranja, ; Undurli, from: Neil Rangel - Messenger blocked? Want to chat? Here is the solution.
[Goanet] Konkan Fruit Fest gets good press coverage.
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa 16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --- Dears, Blame it on El Nino effect or any other cause, the Konkan Fruit Fest and the mangoes of Goa have recieved the attention of the local newspapers. Not everything that has been written is correct, but at least the fruits are receiving some attention instead of the constant focus on sex, sleaze and the Regional Plan. The fresh fruit entries have begun rolling in to the Zonal Agriculture Offices. the stalls are ready at the promenade at Panaji and the nurserymen and others are raring to go. Mog asundi. Miguel -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] Konkan Fruit Fest begins today ....and continues till Sunday; 10 A.M. to 8 P.M.
. Publicity and entertainment support was handled by Sanjit Rodrigues, then Chief Officer of PMC. Umesh Mahambrey added depth to reporting beyond the Press Notes in the Navhind Times. Paul Fernandes supported the event at GT. So did many others. Gaspar Almeida had us on the goa-world website. We are permanently here. The student volunteers of Carmel HSS brought life to the KFF 2005 and of Govt. college, Khandola to KFF 2006. BSG is grateful to all for helping preserve the fruit species and recipes of fruit products for another generation. It is also a time to go back to the roots, organically and naturally. The KFF remains a PEOPLE'S EVENT. Mog asundi. Miguel At 12.30 P.M. on 15 May, 2008, Miguel Braganza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, Anand Jadhav just called in to say the first stalls are already occupied by entrepreneurs and SHGs at noon . The Directorate of Agriculture and ICAR have also brought in its materials for display. The event is rolling. Miguel Braganza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dears, The Konkan Fruit Fest and the mangoes of Goa have received the attention of the local newspapers. Not everything that has been written is correct, but at least the fruits are receiving some attention instead of the constant focus on sex, sleaze and the Regional Plan. The fresh fruit entries have begun rolling in to the Zonal Agriculture Offices. the stalls are ready at the promenade at Panaji and the nurserymen and others are raring to go. Mog asundi. Miguel -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Recent Activity 5 New Members Visit Your Group Biz Resources Y! Small Business Articles, tools, forms, and more. Yahoo! Groups Come check out featured healthy living groups on Yahoo! Earth Day 2008 Get things and get things for free. Find out how. . __,_._,___ - Messenger blocked? Want to chat? Here is the solution.
[Goanet] Why activists dont fight elections?
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa 16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --- Dear Dr.Samir Kelekar, Let me narrate to you a story that Roland Martins of GoaCAN oft repeats to tell the GBA members exactly what I told you in simple terms ...because I believe you are intelligent enough to understand [in spite of the fact that you once posted a fully unsubstantiated story about local female escorts being provided to a hundred company executives and the fact that you did accept Directorship in the IT Board till you were unceremoniously eased out. Let us think of them as aberrations of behaviour, not the norm.] The story goes thus: There was once a very good bus conductor, a rare sight in Goa these days. He ensured that his uniform was clean and tidy, he collected the right fare and issued tickets, he whistled for the driver to stop at the correct bus stops and guided the driver while reversing to park or otherwise when needed. He also serviced the bus, greased the bearings, filled the diesel and sometimes even drove the bus within the compound of the bus depot. so pleased was the management of the transport company that he was made the driver of the bus. On its maiden run with him as the driver, the bus crashed like the Titanic. The Police, RTO, and the Insurance company asked for the driving licence of the driver at the time of the accident. It was then that they discovered that, in all their enthusiasm about the good conductor, they failed to check if he had a driving licence. The driver was imprisoned for rash and negligent driving without licence, the company was fined for permitting it and, to top it all, its insurance claim was rejected due to the vehicle bing driven without licence. Even collateral damage to passengers and by-standers was not paid by the insurer. The GBA will perhaps rue that it allowed CM Digamber Kamat to select Dr.Oscar Rebello represent it in the Task Force on the Regional Plan 2021 that has just presented its Progress Report to Digu, who else. Like Lord Vishnu, Digu has many forms: CM, Minister for TCP, Chairman of TCP Board, Chairman of Task Force on this and that, including Regional Plan 2021. That is the naked truth about Digamber. The Task Force reports will circulate from one body headed by Digu to another body ..headed by Digu. It is said, The love of self is the beginning of a life-long romance. This dumb charade seems to be playing out in Goa .. hill cutting, land filling, mega projects, mining, projects Ordinances, amendments and Surface Utilisation Plans masquerading as Regional Plans in this perennial carnival called governance. Go Goa is going to hell, slowly. I could be wrong. I would be happy to be proved wrong. Can you help change the ground realities in Goa, Samir bab? Even as per Companies Act, if there are common Directors in two companies, a transaction between the said two companies is not considered as a sale. And here is Digu selling Goa left, right and centre, using the Task Force as a pacifier in the moths of the idiots that populate this beautiful state of mine, Goa. The word progress seems to be misplaced in a report that seems quite retrograde on second reading. The only person who is all praise for the Task Force to date is Rajan Naryan, for obvious reasons after his 60th birthday bash in Cidade de Goa and Kala Academy. The heat is building up and the summer has just begun! :-) I shudder to think what would have happened if he was elected an MLA on a GBA ticket as vociferously proposed by you and my Septuagenerian friend, Fernando do Rego. Do you remember the Youth icon of Assam, Prafulla Kumar Mahanta? His story is a wonderful case study that one can forget only at one's own peril. Save your email. It may serve as a better reference material than your posting on the female escort. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 10:15:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Samir Kelekar [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Why activists dont fight elections? This is interesting. Just before these elections, I was one of the few who was shouting hoarse that GBA should fight elections. I was ridiculed by many activists. I remember Miguel Braganza telling me to stand for elections and that I will not get any votes. Fair enough. We elect our representatives through elections. Once we elect them, they do what they please for five years.Wasnt this mayhem then not anticipated ? Perhaps next time, the activities will get together and fight
[Goanet] THANK YOU! Konkan Fruit Fest: Pics Video
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa 16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --- Dears, A big THANK YOU to all those who made the 5th KONKAN FRUIT FEST such a great success by your participation, presence or even words of support. The KFF was held on a shoe-string budget as the BSG is low on funds . but did not ask for funding from the Goa Government while it is supporting the PEOPLE OF GOA in the cause of Self Determination of what DEVELOPMENT they want for their villages and towns ...and the Political leadership seems to be continuing with its negative track. The press, the electronic media and Radio Mirchi FM have been extremely supportive and has given the KFF good coverage though we could not afford to release even a single advertisement. The participants have been supportive though they received only a short notice. The new Executive Committee [ 2008-2011] of the BSG has just taken charge on 01 April, 2008, with a majority being new faces in the EC. The Directorate of Agriculture-Goa, ICAR-Goa, Regional Fruit Research Station-Vengurla [of Konkan Krishi Vidyapeet-Dapoli, Maharashtra] and University of Agricultural Sciences-Dharwad, Karnataka, continued their participation in the transfer of technology and networking of farmers, processors and consumers. Some links to photos and videos of the KFF are given below, courtesy the elusive JoeGoaUK. Also see photos on flickr.com by Frederick Noronha and visit www.goa-world.com Should you decide to join the Botanical Society of Goa and support it, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is a simple one-page form to fill to enrol. Life membership is just Rs.1,000/- and Patron Membership is Rs.10,000/- . Institutional membership is Rs.10,000/- for development organisations and Rs. 1,000/- for schools and colleges. One could even sponsor the membership of a village or city school after getting the Headmistress/master or Principal to fill and sign the form. All students are automatically student-members and eligible for support to their activities. Three colleges, a dozen HSS and two dozen High Schools are already our members. So are the Directorate of Education, Goa Forest Department and Fundacao Oriente. The BSG believes in 'GREENING THE MIND. Everything else follows. THANK YOU. The KFF Organising Committee and the BSG thanks you all for the support. Mog asundi. Miguel Braganza Organizing Secretary KFF IPP of BSG -- Forwarded message -- Konkan Fruit Fest: Pics Video click on pic for bigger view It seems, there were more people this year than any other previous years. I checked at 4.30pm, then 6 then 8 and again just before 8.30pm, more and more crowd was seen showing keen interest in this year's Fruit Fest. It was supposed to be opened from 10am till 8pm but crowed was seen even after 8pm. Those who are out of Goa, please go thru this pics and video. Now, please identify these 11 fruits (write back even if you know just 6) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2497182227/sizes/l/ A short tour to KFF 2008 Also, identify any Goanetters (if u see) http://youtube.com/watch?v=YbyZnUxUuFM Pics, the crowd etc http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2498034428/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2497204051/sizes/l/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 21:17:40 + (GMT) Subject: [bsg-goa] Konkan Fruit Fest: Pics Vide To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: botanical [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] THANK YOU! Konkan Fruit Fest Pics Video
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- 5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa 16-18, May 2008 http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html --- Dear Joe, The people in the photo [L to R] are: Dr. Kashinath G. Hiremath, President of BSG; Mr. Satish S.Porob Tendulkar, Director of Agriculture [standing]; Dr.V.S. Korikanthimath, Direcor of ICAR-Goa Research Centre; Dr. Heman Y.Karapurkar, Chairman of Organising Committee of KFF-5, and Miguel Braganza, Secretary KFF-5 and IPP of BSG [at the microphone]. Two generations of the Pai Lotlikars of Caranzalem can be seen with the traditional Abolim flowers in their hair. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 00:35:54 + (GMT) From: JoeGoaUk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Goanet] THANK YOU! Konkan Fruit Fest: Pics Video To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Thank you Miguel. I don't know if you remember, Joegoauk has been bringing the pics/reports of KFF since last 3 years (except last year there was No KFF). Anyway, I had invited 5 of my friends from Utorda/Cansaulim/Agassaim to visit KFF and two of them shown keen interest to participate in next KFF. They would like to have a stall which would exclussively display rare fruits of Goa together with it branches (where possible). pl advise on this one. And yes, this year it was a grand success. People had a chance to taste the drinks like Caju Niro, Alphonso Mango Juice, Kokum syrup etc and all this for just Rs.5 per glass. We had Caju Niro. ? Foll is the concluding day pic (you could pl name the people on the dais and on mic) http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2502568219/ My Favourite pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2502567841/ Never seen before http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2502567141/ Monkeys favourite? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2503076391/ coffee/Cocoa? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2503906620/ balls? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2503931622/ Limboos ? http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2503959262/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2503101073/ Palm fruit/oil http://www.flickr.com/photos/joegoauk5/2502566757/ Addsoram thanks once again - BMR - a key player in weight issues. Know more.
[Goanet] Watch The Rape of Goa video and cry ... then come on the streets to STOP it before the rains!
[that was occupied and colonized in 1543 beginning with Kegdi Velim and ReisMagos] and in Visconde's Pernem taluka, have your say at the meeting of the Coastal people organised at Porobovaddo/Dando, off CHOGM road, Calangute on Sunday 25 May at 5.00 P.M. [Read details in the Herald today]. It is time to fight for Social Justice and Peace in Goa! Mog asundi. Miguel From: Rajan P. Parrikar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 03:54:14 - For the programme notice, see - http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf Public Screening The Rape of Goa A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim Date: May 21-24, 2008 Timings: 10 am – 1 pm and 3 pm – 6 pm Synopsis: The sad shocking tale of the criminal assault on Goa's land, culture, and identity, by the real estate sharks and the mining lobby, in cahoots with corrupt politicians, is told through the medium of an audio-visual slideshow. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] Watch The Rape of Goa video, attend the symposium ... then come to Calangute for a breath of fresh air!
. Goans, WE ARE NOT ALONE! That is the message of the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This is the era of the THIRD MILLENIUM from the year of our Lord, Anno Domini. Please register A.D. . Parlez-vous Antruzi? Oui or Non? [Do you speak our language? Yes or No?] THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO SEE IT REPEAT. So wrote Leon Uris, the novelist who wrote Armageddon Please visit the former Art Gallery [looting is also an art, as the bare walls of this gallery will tell the discerning eye] of Instituto Menezes Braganza, near Panaji-Betim Ferry Jetty [not the Captain of Ports Casino land service station], Panaji - Goa, TODAY till SATURDAY. Mog asundi. Miguel -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] CRZ, GCZMA, GGRM and the Real Estado da Goa na praia!
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf --- Dears, The CM de Goa has said that the Gram Sabha meetings cannot revoke construction licences unless they are based on misrepresentation or manipulation and work could not be stopped If the builder has ALL the licences. My considered opinion,based on preliminary study of cases in hand, was if the CM is good as his words, that would be enough in almost all cases to revoke the construction licences across Goa. Now read the vindication of this ...from South Goa! Mog asundi Miguel NAVHIND TIMES 23 MAY, 2008 FRONT PAGE REPORT: Documents forged for mega projects along coastal belt By ABDUL RAUF BEIG Principal Correspondent PANAJI Cases of forged documents being used to manipulate records to evade mandatory clearances required from Goa Coastal Zone Management Authority for development or constructions in areas falling between 200-500 metres from high tide line have surfaced in at least three cases of mega building projects in the state at Calangute, Colva and Carmona respectively, so far. According to highly placed sources in the government, prima facie these documents (now being probed) appeared to be forged, even as they said that chances of more such documents surfacing in other parts of the state as the investigations progress could not be ruled out. These documents, certifying that these areas did not fall under the 200-500 metre zone, and now sent for investigation were issued a couple of years back and the authorities said that this racket might have been operating for a long time now. The authorities were aiming to get the bottom of the racket. In all of the three cases, that have surfaced so far, it has been certified by the issuing authority that they did not fall in the 200-500 metre zone but their verification by the authorities recently revealed they were very much in the zone. With the revelation of these forged documents a large number of constructions were likely to come under the scanner of the authorities. The authorities said that soon after the present government took over it decided to get the high tide line demarcated clearly on cadastral survey plan, in view of allegations in the past that HTL was being manipulated for getting/giving of approvals for development falling in 200-500 metres from HTL. Besides, since 2007 the GCZMA has authorised the directorate of settlement and land records to demarcate and delineate the coastal regulation zones and lines and as such all cases pertaining to obtaining permissions or clearances were first referred to the DSLR to get the HTL demarcated and only after it certified the files were processed by the GCZMA, they added. Goa is the first and the only state so far in the country to have the HTL marked on the cadastral map, an exercise conducted jointly by GCZMA, DSLR and National Institute of Oceanography jointly, following High Court directions to that effect. The Environment Minister, Mr Aleixo Sequeira told The Navhind Times late this evening that the cases have been brought to his notice and that he has directed the Director General of Police to investigate and verify the authenticity of the documents in question. He also said that if the documents were found to be forged strict action would be taken against the racketeers. Of late people in the state particularly from the coastal areas have been protesting large-scale construction in their areas and even forced the developers and the authorities to stop work on the projects. -- Forwarded message -- From: Miguel Braganza [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 23, 2008 12:54 AM Subject: GGRM Press conference on Real Estado da Goa To: Navhind Times [EMAIL PROTECTED], Herald Tombat [EMAIL PROTECTED], Editor GT [EMAIL PROTECTED], Times of India [EMAIL PROTECTED], TARUN BHARAT [EMAIL PROTECTED], GOMANTAK Dainik [EMAIL PROTECTED], NAVPRABHA [EMAIL PROTECTED], GOADOOT [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prakash Kamat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Council SocialJustice [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ganv Ghor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Editors/Journalists, The GGRM Convener has invited you for the Press Conference today. Please do the needful. Thanks for your continued support to the people's efforts to keep Goa clean and green . for ourselves and the next generation ...till we hand over the control to GenNext. Amchem Goy, Amkam Zai. Mog asundi, Miguel Ganv Ghor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GANV GHOR RAKHON MANCH (GGRM) a collective of village movements resisting mega projects invites
[Goanet] Things that should not happen ....happened - Part II
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf --- Dear Floriano, One cannot change one's Fate: it is a fait accompli !! The lady and her son on the scooter near Ashwin Garage, Porvorim, were lucky to escape with bruises. Fatima D'Sa is also lucky to have her garage advertised. You are no less lucky: 1.Your letter was published as a STAR letter in a newspaper. This is enough to make any person's chest to swell as much, if not more than, a child with a Star on his home work book and 2. A much CCed letter addressed to an agency other than the Goanet was posted on the Net ...along with the untrimmed referal post, to boot!! The Interceptor car No. 4 (GA-01-1380) that you are referring to must be the one with the number plate reading GA-01-G-1380. The 'G' in the string indicates that it is a Government vehicle. Helmetless riding and belt-less driving is all the cops are interested in to collect the moolah for Government of self. They cannot see trucks laden with 16 tonnes of ore instead of 10 tonnes limit ...though there are no less than two thousand overladen trucks on the roads each day ...each making 2 to5 trips a day. They cannot see the trucks and buses that belch sooty smoke or ask for a PUC. They cannot see the speeding buses, specially the city buses in Panaji and Margao making up the time they took to crawl out of the bus-stand. Pandurang Madkaikar was plain unlucky. He tries to control the speed instead of speeding the cash flow. Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 15:40:20 +0530 From: floriano [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Things that should not happen happened - Part II To: Navhind Times [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Herald [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gomantak Times [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Shinde Audumber [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sunaparant-1 [EMAIL PROTECTED], Prasad Mhambrey [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Alex Barbosa [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vilas GT [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], 'goa world' [EMAIL PROTECTED], Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994! goanet@lists.goanet.org, Goa Goans [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sir, Thank you for publishing the above report on your Herald edition of date as a 'Star Letter' After reading the star letter, one Ms. Lourdes Vaz from Porvorim took the trouble to contact your office to get my phone contact number. She had a very interesting but a sad story to relate which is concerning the Interceptor No.4 - GA -01-1380. This is supposed to have happened on the morning of 21st, May . 2008 at the very spot where the incident that I have reported earlier took place with the same interceptor No.4 (GA-01-1380) parked at the same location at Porvorim. It is believed that Ms Vaz was on her two wheeler proceeding home (behind Ashwin Garage) with her 5 year old son. At the same time, GDO 524, driven by a relatively old man was proceeding towards Panjim. The moment GDO-524 saw the interceptor, for reasons only Best known to him, he is believed to have swerved to the right to take the turn at Ashwin Garage. And in so doing , he knocked Ms. Vaz off her two wheeler. Luckily she escaped with bruises but her son started bleeding from the mouth. In all this while the cops at the interceptor did sweet nothing, not even bothering to enquire into this mishap. When the husband of Ms. Vaz accosted them, they are believed to have told him that this is not their concern and that they should call the traffic cops. Ms Vaz insists that just because of the injury to her son that she has not reported this matter to the higher Police authority through registering a complaint against the crew of the interceptor. I would like to bring to your kind attention that our police force has become so insensitive that they will discharge their duties irrespective of whether by the same token people are killed. In this connection, it is not surprising that a young lad died at Navi Mumbai recently after having been stopped by a traffic cop when he was speeding, for not wearing a helmet. This incident has been heavily reported in the Times of India, I am told, the incident having taken place in the recent past. It is imperative that higher authorities in
[Goanet] Police PROTECTION for whom? Herald Report and Editorial 23 May
. The government is to be blamed for the problem as they have given lease to several mining companies, he said, after meeting the agitating residents on Thursday. About 200 agitators gathered near the deputy collector's office shouting anti-mining slogans on Thursday morning. MGP President Pandurang Raut after meeting the agitators urged Deputy Collector Arvind Bugde to resolve the issue. Mr Bugde said that he has informed the matter to the collector and a meeting would be convened in a few days. Mr Raut asked Mr Bugde to stop the mining activities till a solution is reached. Later, Mr Raut met the police and took stock of the situation. Meanwhile, agitators submitted a memorandum to the deputy collector asking for police protection and to stop the mining activities, without any delay. Agitators dispersed only in the evening at about 6 pm. A police force was deployed at the site to avoid any untoward incident. ENDS oHERALDo Editorial May 23,2008 Policemen for whose protection? It's a city with a population of 78,393, according to the 2001 census. Surely, there must be more than a lakh of people living in Goa's commercial capital, Margao, at present. And, for their 'protection', less than 15 constables are deployed at night! Statistically, that means each of them is responsible for the security of 6,667 citizens, or over 1,000 families. Is it at all physically possible? The situation is not much better in Panjim, Mapusa, Vasco and Ponda, leave alone the vast rural areas of the state. Even the Special Branch, which is supposed to combat terrorism and organised crime, has an actual strength of nine against a sanctioned strength of 39. In case of a law and order situation, like the agitation on Wednesday by villagers against a mine in Khola, Quepem, police had to summon forces from four different police stations in addition to personnel from the India Reserve Battalion (IRB), to muster a fighting squad of 40. This is a pathetic situation. Is it any wonder then that there is a spate of robberies in the state? Or that such a large number of them remain unsolved? However, there is one area of policing where there never seems to be any shortage of personnel. That's the area of VIP security. Each of our ministers is allotted a large number of policemen for their protection. These are usually based at the minister's house. They are also entitled to a personal security officer, who accompanies them everywhere they go. These tasks require a fairly large number of personnel, who are taken off police station duties. In a place like Goa, is this level of security really necessary? Even if it is, why can't a competent security agency be hired to handle these tasks, so that the policemen can be out on the streets doing what they are supposed to do – provide protection to the aam admi rather than to the montri? -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] GOA: Government, Gram Sabha, GGRM or Task Force to protect its land use?
constituted to finalise the Regional Plan is studying to reduce the Floor Area Ratio (FAR) in the village and to put some restrictions on construction activity in the villages. He, however, reiterated that construction projects cannot be stopped arbitrarily by people, even as he admitted that building plans can be revoked if the licences were obtained through misrepresentation of facts or through manipulation. The chief minister made these observations after Herald drew his attention to the ongoing agitation against mega housing projects in the villages, especially in Salcete taluka. Kamat said he do not see any scope to revoke licences which have been granted by the concerned authorities. Of course, the licences can be revoked if there is manipulation or misrepresentation of facts, he added. When his attention was drawn to people apprehensions that large-scale construction activity in the villages would affect the demographic imbalance against Goans, Kamat said Then we will have to make different laws. This question cannot be raised at this stage. Kamat said the ongoing agitation raises a host of issues. For instance, he demanded to know how ab individual can be obstructed if he or she wants to build a building on the private land. While saying that the Task Force is studying the question of FAR or what restrictions need to be imposed on constructions in the villages, the chief minister said the people are just opposing any housing projects. I can understand when people raise objections to projects with 500 flats or 100 bungalows, but people are now opposing even 40 and 50 flats in some of the places, he added. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] FOMENTO Resorts and Mine, MINE, MINES!
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf --- 'Cidade de Goa is a holiday destination in itself' Can you give a brief history of the property? Cidade de Goa - Goa's premium 5-star deluxe resort is owned by Fomento Resorts and Hotels. Situated in the land of sun, sea and surf, the resort comprises of 210 rooms that showcase the unique Goan Portuguese architecture and ambience. The resort is preferred by discerning travellers worldwide due to its proximity to the beach and its courteous staff that lay emphasis on providing warm Goan hospitality. What is the USP of your property? Cidade de Goa is situated on Vainguinim Beach and has the distinctive advantage of being close to the city centre, most of Goa's hotspots and sightseeing locations. Cidade de Goa is also a holiday destination by itself as it has something for everyone. For the foodie at heart, one can find a variety of restaurants namely Alfama, a fine dining restaurant that serves authentic Goan and Portuguese cuisine. Alfama has also been ranked amongst India's 30 best restaurants by an independent customer survey conducted by a leading media house. Barbeque, the seasonal evening restaurant with a live kitchen serves grilled dishes and a variety of sea food in the outdoors under the moonlit sky with the soothing sound of waves lashing the shore. Cafe Azul provides the ambience of an Italian café with a choice of versatile menu, specialty sandwiches and wood fired pizzas while one can savour global cuisine at Laranja. Other FB options include Doçaria, a charming tea and snack lounge; Taverna - the lobby bar; Bar Latino, the pool side bar and The Flag Service, the unique garden and beach service which is there for visitors at the flick of a flag. Visitors can try their luck at the Goldfinger Casino or de-stress with the state-of-the-art health club - Clube Saúde and Pavitra - The ayurveda Spa. For the adventurous at heart, Cidade de Goa offers a vast array of options that include water sports, tennis courts, spice plantation tours, bird watching areas and an outdoor chess board. For the business traveller, Cidade de Goa offers a variety of conference and banqueting facilities along with its Business Centre that is catered to by trained and experienced staff. One can sum up Cidade de Goa as a resort that offers pure Goan hospitality - be it its ambience, location, food, entertainment, service, staff, efficiency or even guest experiences Details of Conference halls of Cidade de Goa Grande Sala Sala de Banquete Harmonia HRL Broadroom Ultramar T-style 450 175 35 50 Classroom 1906025 40 Cluster 130 50 20 30 U - Shape 105 40 20 25 Double U 165 70 Oval 115 50 25 35 15 Height 15 ft 11 ft 7 ft 7ft 8 ft Length 95 ft 50 ft 20 ft 29 ft 26 ft Breadth 39 ft 32 ft 26 ft 26 ft 12 ft Sq ft 3721 1656 520 754 312 Since Goa is a year-round destination, do you have any specific packages over the year to target customers - both domestic and international? We will be coming out with packages, which will bundle together meals, food and beverages, sight seeing, boat cruise, excursions, spa and health club services and taxes- covering an experience of a complete holiday. These will be priced from Rs 6000 onwards and will offer a wide choice to clients, as per their requirements and purpose of holidaying ( e.g family vacations, honeymooners etc). We plan to tie up with commercial ticketing and travel agents online and airlines. We will market our packages using print media nationwide, the internet and our region wise sales offices and travel agents. We expect major inflow of tourists from the domestic markets, mainly Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Gujarat. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] LIMERICK 108 - HEMA AGAINST INJUSTICE IN GOA
--- http://www.GOANET.org --- The Rape of Goa - A photo documentary by Rajan P. Parrikar Venue: Menezes Braganza Art Gallery, Panjim, May 21-24, 2008 http://www.parrikar.org/misc/doc-notice.pdf --- Dears, Read the moving limerick from a 75 year-old man who once lived in Goa...and loves it: Shanti Dhoot. Hear Hema Sardesai's Goa Zai and enjoy. Hema could do a lot for Goa only if she sheds her BJP baggage ...and does not board the Congress Airlines. Till then, even her best actions will not serve any purpose. Her intentions remain as suspect as they were on 18 December, 2006 at the GBA rally or 2007 at the GMAS rally. It does not matter with whom she allies. It is all about her intentions, really. Goa is like a jealous wife ...one cannot claim to love her while flirting with those who continue to prostitute her. Goa is no Panchali to be gambled at a Casino, either. Those who claim to be ardent supporters of the Bharat rashtra, should read the Mahabharat ...and learn from the errors highlighted therein ...or face the battle of the Crook-shetra! One's own dharma, however imperfect, is better than another's dharma, however perfect. Bhagwan Shri Krishna's advice to Arjuna before going into battle at Kurukshetra in the Bhagwad Gita THOSE WHO DO NOT REMEMBER THEIR HISTORY ARE CONDEMNED TO SEE IT REPEAT. Leon Uris [Author of Armageddon] Mog asundi. Miguel Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 21:52:10 -0400 From: Shanti Dhoot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] LIMERICK 108 - HEMA AGAINST INJUSTICE IN GOA Perhaps we will, as in the past, on such an occasion Decide in time, our own individual equation, Depending on which side our bread is buttered And leave our minds to stay shuttered Refusing to to let justice decide our persuasion. Hema has in fact pointed out in detail, what ails our beloved land. That should the government's immediate attention command. Her ringing manifesto details aspects of Goan culture Despoiled by more than one predatory vulture - It cannot and should not be dismissed offhand. This could well be the spark that starts a brush-fire, That ultimately takes us out of the dismal mire In which we now find ourselves caught. It has left us in a mental state bordering on the distraught, Wondering how to get to the Promised Land to which we aspire. - Shanti Dhoot From: D'Souza, Avelino [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Goanet] Hema seeks special status for Goa http://www.navhindtimes.com/articles.php?Story_ID=052170 by RAMNATH N PAI RAIKAR PANAJI If required, I am ready to come on the street in support of this demand, she added. The enemy of Goa can be anyone who promotes slums in the state for developing vote banks or otherwise, she observed, adding, The enemies can also be those who cut down the hills and bury the paddy field to raise concrete jungles over them, those who run the drug and paedophiliac operations in the state, especially in the coastal belts, and those who long for Portuguese to return to Goa to restart the colonial rule, she stated. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
[Goanet] SUCCESS has a thousand fathers; FAILURE dies an orphan!
€œWe sort out the issues by holding discussions on them, he said while responding to a question. He, however, went on to add that his suggestion to his ministerial colleagues is that rather than rushing to the media on the issue they should try and sort out the issues by discussing them on the table. As regards to spat between the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party over a number of issues, he said that whenever there have been problems he has taken initiative to find solution to them, while others were discussed at the co-ordination committee meetings and resolved. On the allegations that the state has not seen much development during his tenure as Chief Minister, he said that there were people in the state who do not want to see what is happening around them for reasons best known to them nor were they ready to give any credit to anyone and that they simply try to paint a wrong picture of everything that is positive. “I would like to leave the issue of development to the people to judge what I and my government have done during the last year since I took over and also whether we have taken some major decisions that were in the interest of the state,†he said adding that he would not like to praise himself for whatever he has done for the state. As regards to frequent attacks by the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party against him on trivial issues he said that he would like to leave that question to the opposition party and the people to judge about the allegations made against him and the motives behind them. My aim as Chief Minister has been to develop Goa and all through my tenure I have always tried to give justice to the people by carrying out all-round development taking all sections of society irrespective of which part of society they belong or which constituency they belong to. That is the way state should be developed, he added. Replying to a question on inclusion of Mr Atanasio Monserrate in is cabinet, he said that certain decisions that were vital were taken by the top brass of the party and that the issue relating to inclusion of Mr Monserrate into the cabinet was one among them. The issue is under consideration of the party and that the decision would be conveyed to him in due course of time and implemented soon thereafter. -- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. Miguel Braganza, S1 Gracinda Apts, Rajvaddo, Mhapsa 403507 Goa Ph 9822982676 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
