[Goanet] 28 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS

2002-07-28 Thread Joel D'Souza
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS July 28, 2002 VICE PRESIDENT KANT DEAD: Vice President, Krishan Kant, who as a young turk campaigned for a Left-of-Centre tilt in Congress under Indira Gandhi, died in New Delhi on July 27 of a massive heart attack, 24 days before he was to lay down office. Government

[Goanet] WYD

2002-07-28 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Orlando deMelo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just want to clarify something about the World Youth Day. Every registered WYD pilgrim as they are called is given a knapsack and on it is the WYD Emblem and the Canadian emblem as can be seen at this link. Im not sure if that is what Mervyn is

[Goanet] YOUR support ................will be OUR SUCCESS !

2002-07-28 Thread rene barreto
Friends of Goa and Goans everywhere ! YOU are ALL invited to join us to celebrate , OUR GOAN CULTURAL HERITAGE events on WORLD GOA DAY - in Goa and all over the GOAN WORLD. We also hope that you will give these events all the publicity that they rightly deserve and also feel PROUD to be A

[Goanet] World Youth Day 2002

2002-07-28 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Folks, There were close to a million people at today's mass. It was a real colourfull event as about every 50 feet or so, there was someone waving the flag of his country. India was well represented and I think it was about the 5th most represented flag i.e. after Canada, Poland, USA, and

[Goanet] WORLD GOA DAY:

2002-07-28 Thread rene barreto
- Original Message - From: Tony Correia-Afonso To: rene barreto Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 10:30 PM Subject: Re: GOAN HERIATAGE DAY WORLD GOA DAY: On the occasion of World Goa Day, which this year is being celebrated as WORLD GOAN HERITAGE DAY, I extend to all fellow-Goans

Re: [Goanet] World Youth Day 2002

2002-07-28 Thread John D'souza
Mervyn, Saw the mass on TV. The whole week was a series of events not to be missed it re-affirmed the values we hold.. BTW, the Downsview Hanger in a month's time, will be the venue for Viva Goa. It could accomodate all the Goans living in the GTA, if they all turned up! Parking would be a

[Goanet] MIGHT IS RIGHT!

2002-07-28 Thread aires
The high-handed act of Goa's Tourism and Sports Minister Micky Pacheco in stepping out of his car and physically assaulting a Kadamba Bus driver on the National Highway is true to his character. That it took him a month in office to fire the first known salvo is surprising. To rub salt into the

[Goanet] New Jersey GOA salutes World GOA DAY

2002-07-28 Thread Tony Barros
Hi all ! The Goan Association of New Jersey in the east coast of the U.S.A celebrated the World Goan Heritage Day at its annual picnic at the Princeton Country Club in West Windsor. The ten -minute gig was started with a brief explanation about the World Goa Heritage Day, and this was followed

[Goanet] The WORLD GOAN HERITAGE DAY being celebrated in GOA page 1/ 2

2002-07-28 Thread rene barreto
Friends and Friends of Goans ! The WORLD GOAN HERITAGE DAY is being celebrated at the Kala Academy -Panjim Goa with the inclusion of the inaugural programme to be given by the GOA STATE STRING ORCHESTRA , and will be conducted by Nigel Dixon on the 13th of August 2002. Nigel has dedicated

[Goanet] 29 JULY: GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS

2002-07-28 Thread Joel D'Souza
GOACOM NEWS CLIPPINGS July 29, 2002 EDITORIALS TODAY: DANGER OFF BEACHES: The increase in number of drowning deaths off the beaches belies the claim the tourism department of having taken steps to prevent them. It shows that the state government did not initiate steps to honour the High Court