[Goanet] GOA SUDHAROP: Scholarships for Goan college students

2012-01-30 Thread George Pinto
Congratulations to the 6 college students in Goa who received scholarships from Goa Sudharop in collaboration with Foundation For Excellence. Hazel Vanessa Colaco Siddhesh Suresh Umarye Padgaonker Vishal Vilas Shaik Shezal Tamhankar Akshay S. T. Ajay Shriram The scholarships will allow these stu

[Goanet] NRI -Goans of the world - be on guard

2012-01-30 Thread Antonio Menezes
This is merely a cold and abstract exercise and unpractical to most of the Goan diaspora i.e. NRI -Goans (non Indian passport holders) living in the U.K., Canada , the U.S. etc for whom let's face it, there is NO going back to Goa/India (unless , of course , the Mayan disaster strikes this Decembe

Re: [Goanet] THE OLD SHOULD MAKE ROOM FOR THE NEW

2012-01-30 Thread Santos Carmo
Dear Mr.Aires, Why can't you call personally DOTOR WILLY, RANE and Victoria Mummy to retire from active politices and make way for the new faces. Cheers Carmos > Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:27:55 +0530 > From: airesrodrigu...@gmail.com > To: goa...@goanet.org > Subject: [Goanet] THE OLD SH

Re: [Goanet] And the Grape Escapade 2012 Queen is..

2012-01-30 Thread Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या *فريدريك نورونيا
Continuing with the Digital Camera, Printers, Multifunction, Facsimile and more... series, sometimes I get called Ricoh. FN On 30 January 2012 15:10, Nigel Britto wrote: > Minolta Fernandes? Seriously? That must have been a Kodak moment. > > > > > 2012/1/30 JoeGoaUk > >> And the Grape Escapade 2

Re: [Goanet] NRI Goans and their rights in Goa

2012-01-30 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Selma, the Non-Occupancy Tax proposal is just a jingoistic jibe designed to woo those with the lowest level of intelligence to vote for Congress. It does not have even a remote possibility of becoming law because: 1. The Union Policy is to woo NRIs to India. 2. As far as I am aware, no state in I

[Goanet] Goan NGOs and social activists must remember Gandhi

2012-01-30 Thread Eugene Correia
On this solemn day of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, it would be nice to remember that though the Mahatma does not live among us his spirit does. No doubt the recent incantations of the Mahatma's name in the great fight launched by the so-called Gandhian moralist Anna Hazare has made the Mahatma l

Re: [Goanet] Happy Birthday to Roland Francis.

2012-01-30 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
On 30 January 2012 03:13, Tony de Sa wrote: Hi Roland, Happy Birthday. Wish you Health, Prosperity, Happiness and happy writing on GN. Hope you roll out the barrel and have a whopping good time today! RESPONSE: Ad Multos Annos, Roland and ALL the very best jc et al ---

Re: [Goanet] NRI Goans and their rights in Goa

2012-01-30 Thread Eugene Correia
I see the points Eddie has made. The Congress hasn't put its manifesto out but rather testing the waters by leaking out some issues on which the election would be fought. The NRI commissioner is on the Congress drafting committee and, hence, the NRIs should hope he would see that nothing is in the

[Goanet] Meet all 9 Queen contestants - Sunshine, Diamond, Tears, Women, Mother-in-law etc

2012-01-30 Thread JoeGoaUk
Meet all 9 contestants.. Grape Escapade 2012 29.1.2012 Sunshine, Diamond, Tears, Women, Mother-in-law etc Meet here all 9 beauty Queen contestants Some singing, one sings Bebdo How would you describeSUNSHINE to a blind man? What DIAMOND mean to you? Who is your ideal MOTHER in LAW? Are TEARS are

[Goanet] Goan NGOs and social activists must remember Gandhi

2012-01-30 Thread SOTER
Eugene, Anna makes a mockery of Gandhi. He is the symbol of the Sangh Parivar Gandhi. Today, Modi's Gujarat is also building temples for Gandhi. But that is not what M K Gandhi was about. Please do not glorify these wolves in sheep's clothing. -Soter

[Goanet] Attack on democracy

2012-01-30 Thread Nelson Lopes
Attack on democratic freedom The dastardly attack on the private property and residence of Fr Bismark is an cowardly act of desperate elements. It may be eve a veiled warning against his person. All those political pundits, sconce d in their ivory towers of self righteousness have now failed to d

[Goanet] [Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar] A Boy Comes of Age

2012-01-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
Photo Blog by Rajan Parrikar has posted a new item, 'A Boy Comes of Age' Taken yesterday at the thread ceremony of my nephew Yash. The Facebook generation comes of age. (Point driven home subtly by the placement of a toy made by a company named after a fruit.) You may view the latest post

Re: [Goanet] Happy Birthday to Roland Francis.

2012-01-30 Thread roland . francis
Many thanks JC. Just so I can remember you on yours, can I have your month/day. Roland. Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -Original Message- From: "J. Colaco < jc>" Sender: goanet-bou

[Goanet] In public interest- Is the Christian Art Museum an abandoned child?

2012-01-30 Thread JoeGoaUk
Involvement of our very own godmen cannot be ruled out. As we heard and read of such godmen both living and dead, plundering gods   joego...@yahoo.co.uk for Goa & NRI related info... http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/GOAN-NRI/ For Goan Video Clips http://youtube.com/joeukgoa In Goa, Dial  1

[Goanet] NRI Goans and their rights in Goa (by Rose Fernandes)

2012-01-30 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Dear Eddie When I read point 2. in your posting "As far as I am aware, no state in India or country in the world has such a law" I googled non-occupancy tax and saw the following article by David Lev dated 11 October 2011: "Absentee owner tax could slash Jerusalem rent prices". Not sure if it

[Goanet] Old photos from Goa...Farewell to Dr. Froilano de Mello

2012-01-30 Thread Frederick FN Noronha * फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا
Dear all: Please see these photos: OLDPHOTO: Farewell to Dr. Froilano de Mello :: Photo from the collection of SOBRINHO Antonio Jose. Meeting to pay tribute to Dr Froilano de Mello, on April 26, 1951, at Margão (Sanatório do Hospício) on the occasion of the definitive departure from Goa of Dr. F

[Goanet] Happy Birthday,Roland Francis!

2012-01-30 Thread Silviano Barbosa
I would like to wish a very Happy Birthday to my Canadian Goan friend Roland Francis. Roland is a typical Niz Goenkar and loves everything Goan. Roland with his ever-smiling face makes you feel very comfortable with his jovial conversation full of intellect, wide knowledge about Goa and the wor

[Goanet] DECCAN HERALD: Goa minister Monserrate got Rs 26.5 crore payoffs for land conversion

2012-01-30 Thread Goanet News
Goa minister Monserrate got Rs 26.5 crore payoffs for land conversion Devika Sequeira PANAJI, Jan 30 2012, DHNS Investigations into tax evasion by a former government official has unravelled that a minister in the Cabinet of Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat received huge payoffs from a complex n

Re: [Goanet] Dear Mr. Manohar Parrikar

2012-01-30 Thread Nascy Caldeira
dear Jose, U have clearly stated in your list, that U prefer M Parrikar as Ch. Minister among other things in the list. That way one is misguiding an already confused electorate.   I was totally taken aback when U wrote thus, in yr post in response to my post to Rajan under the topic: issues for

Re: [Goanet] Christian art museum burgled, guard killed

2012-01-30 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Soter D'Souza wrote: > Interesting that this news was found not fit for the headlines of local > newspapers. I wonder if anyone else noticed the irony - the number of ghati guards from Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar etc etc have multiplied rapidly (there are more guards than Goans, or so i

[Goanet] Goa news for January 31, 2012

2012-01-30 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Siemens' new factories in Goa commence production - Zee News ased Siemens AG's Indian arm, Siemens Ltd, Mondaysaid its two factories in Goa, which were set up at an investment of Rs 200 cro

Re: [Goanet] NRI Goans and their rights in Goa

2012-01-30 Thread Eddie Fernandes
Dear Eugene, Re: I see the points Eddie has made. Response: I do not think you do as you are leaping to conclusions without the facts . Re: The Congress hasn't put its manifesto out but rather testing the waters ... Response: This is not just an election idea but was first put out, I think, in N

Re: [Goanet] Dear Mr. Manohar Parrikar

2012-01-30 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
[1] I wrote to Nascy thus: Accepting that English is a straightforward language, I invite you to refer me to the post in which I indicated/implied that I wanted a 'wolf in sheep's clothing' as Cheap Minister [2] This is Nascy's response: a: U have clearly stated in your list, that U prefer M Par

Re: [Goanet] And the Grape Escapade 2012 Queen is

2012-01-30 Thread Tony de Sa
From: Nigel Britto Minolta Fernandes? Seriously? That must have been a Kodak moment. COMMENT: +1 -- ** "Tony de Sa" < tonydesa at gmail dot com > ** --- Protect Goa's natural beauty

Re: [Goanet] Goan NGOs and social activists must remember Gandhi

2012-01-30 Thread floriano
Dear Soter, Convictional base is not found on the roadside. When this is picked up from there and showed off as intelligence, it flies with the wind, changes directions like the air-sock. Cheers floriano goasuraj 9890470896 - Original Message - From: "SOTER" To: Sent: Monday,