[Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 7, Issue 420

2012-05-01 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Santosh Helekar: He falsely stated that I was propagating falsehoods like Goebbels. He could provide not a single piece of evidence that I had made any assertion that was factually false. Response: Here is evidence No 1:- in the end the motive of the Church is always to convert (as always)..

[Goanet] P & O cruise ship staff paid basic salary of 75 pence an hour.

2012-05-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
These cruise companies are serious c***suckers. They all have rules slightly different from one another BUT all of them are feudal and worse(???). Some allow them to take all their tips, others attach it to performance. These companies are bastards. For the hours they put in and for the expectatio

[Goanet] "Everyone one likes special status" - Parrikar

2012-05-01 Thread Bernado Colaco
Utter nonsense Mr. Parrikar, Goans want special status to save Goa from going into total abyss. And it is us Goans who should be the driving force to achieve this goal. Nothing will come from your plundering centre. Stop MOPA and get your navy friends out of Dabolim.   BC     TEAM HERALD teamher

[Goanet] Cycle Rally held to support Campal Football stadium reconstruction

2012-05-01 Thread Sandeep Heble
Cyclists of Goa Randonneurs, a cycling club dedicated to endurance cycling and affiliated to Audax Club Parisien (ACP) France, hit the Panjim city roads on Sunday 29 April to generate support for reconstruction of a state-of-the art Football stadium at Campal. Around 40 cyclists participated in the

[Goanet] Hitting the RESET button

2012-05-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - This entire Mopa kerfuffle can be distilled into the following question: What kind of Goa do you want for the foreseeable future? To me, it is deeply distressing that Manohar appears to be taking a direction that is harmful to Goa.  Let me be clear:  I do not question his motives.  

Re: [Goanet] Alina, this is what Matanhy thought of Mopa

2012-05-01 Thread floriano
Dear Rajan-bab, You might have been a bit too late. Out of the blue I decided to put in a call to Dr. Marconi, the close confidant of Alina and the leader of Matanhy's core group. He informs me that Alina has signed on the dotted lines of the BJP membership form yesterday and has also talke

[Goanet] Doha Goans have a ball

2012-05-01 Thread Leo D'Mello 1
Doha Goans have a ball. 26th April, 2012 - A scintillating evening at Ramada Plaza, Doha, Qatar marked the culmination of months of hardwork and organization by a dedicated committee of Doha Goans Sports Club. The jam packed banquet room and the congenial camaraderie of 500+ Goans and a fair

[Goanet] REQUEIM MASS ANNOUNCEMENT - MARTIN P. D'COSTA (PITLU)

2012-05-01 Thread Goa World
GULF-GOANS e-NEWSLETTER (since 1994)  http://www.yahoogroups.com/group/gulf-goans/         www.colaco.net    REQUEIM MASS ANNOUNCEMENT       A Requeim Mass will be in held at the St. Therese of Child Jesus, Salmiya, Kuwait at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 in fond

[Goanet] The shifting goalposts of Mopa

2012-05-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - From - http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/matanhy-neither-supported-nor-opposed-mopa-alina [QUOTE] The Chief Minister, speaking on the occasion said that if the government finds  the Mopa airport unfeasible, it would not go ahead with the project. "However,  in today’s times Goa n

[Goanet] IS ALINA ALREADY LYING?

2012-05-01 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Alina Saldanha has publicly categorically stated that her late husband Matanhy was not for or against Mopa Airport. She should have got the facts right before speaking. Why is Alina twisting the facts for petty political gains This is no tribute to the departed leader. Below is a letter written

[Goanet] Song for the day

2012-05-01 Thread Gabe Menezes
Billy Vaughn and his orchestra - Petticoats of Portugal - 1956 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPn1SJ9AMGA g -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.

[Goanet] mathany's widow confused on Mopa?

2012-05-01 Thread SOTER
Politicians are a strange breed. Even their widows find it difficult to keep track of which side of the fence they were. Mathany's widow is in the same dilemma. Or is it simply opportunism causing the amnaesia. - Soter

[Goanet] Goan books by certain Goan authors excluded in Goan libraries: Why the selective deliberate exclusions?

2012-05-01 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Dear goanet readers Selma Carvalho (still in UK? I presume as the next Virgin Atlantic flight to Mars is full) wrote: Now coming to Melvyn Fernandes of UK. Here is a list of things he has accused other people of: - Silvano Barbarosa did not respond to his emails? about the book Sixth Night whe

[Goanet] ALEXYZ Daily Cartoon (01May12)

2012-05-01 Thread Goanet A-C-E!
~ Save Frogs Day ~ ~ If you Kill Frogs You will turn into Frogs...in your next life ~ To enjoy the visual cartoon please visit: www.alexyztoons.com Site sponsored by www.goasudharop.org

[Goanet] The shifting goalposts of Mopa

2012-05-01 Thread SOTER
When the Tillari irrigation project was inititated it was for agriculture and industry. Today the government has been eyeing the infrastructure for supplying drinking water to cater to the hundreds of mega housing projects and their posh swimming pools. Mopa will begin with freight and gradually

[Goanet] Dabolim Airport...

2012-05-01 Thread Gabe Menezes
...the Manohar Parrikar Government should hold a referndum - go to the People - ask them if they want the status quo to remain or whether Goans should demand the return of Dabolim Airport to the Gov. of Goa. Surely the Centre cannot dictate, stating the spoils of war! Dabolim was a Civilian Airpo

[Goanet] HTG - How's the Goan? (by Rose Fernandes)

2012-05-01 Thread Melvyn Fernandes
Dear goanet readers After another evening of fine wining and dining, my thanks go to Mr Eugene Dias and his staff of Palms of Goa Restaurant, 160 New Cavendish Street, London for the excellent food and hospitality extended to all of us. Anyone wishing to feast at this restaurant can find detail

[Goanet] Doha Goans Summer Queen 2012 - on Facebook

2012-05-01 Thread Leo D'Mello 1
Hi Goanetters, Please view the album on Facebook "Doha Goans have a ball" and the crowning of the Summer Queen 2012. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150732647012968.406089.658157967&type=3#!/media/set/?set=a.10150732647012968.406089.658157967&type=3 Rgds Leo D'Mello

[Goanet] Alina, this is what Matanhy thought of Mopa

2012-05-01 Thread Bernado Colaco
Alina is not a rubber stamp for MOPA. A worldwide campaign must be started by Goans to stop the Sopa.   BC     MOPA must be stopped even if it costs Manohar Parrikar his Chief Ministership, - the stakes are that high for Goa. Not that the corrupt scoundrels of the prior government should be retu

Re: [Goanet] Goan books by certain Goan authors excluded in Goan libraries: Why the selective deliberate exclusions?

2012-05-01 Thread J. Colaco < jc>
This semi-instructional video may help us understand (better) HOW to find books in a Library. BTW: Do we know that rather interesting English lady towards the end to this short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGlN_EaEgPQ jc

[Goanet] Mega Konkani Drama in Kuwait - May 11

2012-05-01 Thread gaspersWorld ®
:::By Gasper Crasto::: Kuwait: A Konkani Tiatr (drama) entitled Ghonvdho (Mason) will be staged in Kuwait on Friday, 11th May 2012, 3.30pm, at the Kuwait Medical Association Auditorium, Jabriya (near the Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital). Presented by Kuwait’s famed Lopes Brothers, the drama is writte

Re: [Goanet] Goanet - Hitting the re-set button

2012-05-01 Thread Vivian A. DSouza
Manohar Parrikar in my mind, is a good honest man, who has the interest of Goans and Goa at heart.  However his infatuation with the Mopa airport is puzzling.  He must be getting a lot of pressure from  certain quarters, and from people who have purchased land around the proposed Mopa airport an

[Goanet] [JudeSundayReflections] 5th Sunday of Easter

2012-05-01 Thread Jude Botelho
29-Apr-2012   Dear Friend,   Life today is filled with gadgets and appliances that make life a little more easy and convenient. But we know that if there is a power failure all the wonderful gadgets are useless. It's the same with our laptops, iPhones and iPads, we want them to work faster and b

[Goanet] Floriano's Ramblings on MOPA

2012-05-01 Thread floriano
Dear Goans, Let us put the much talked about in recent days 'MOPA' under the 'Laser Line Combiner microscope' to detect the fault-lines which can never be detected through any other ordinary microscope, so that Goans do not make a mistake of the Century in denying themselves their throbbi

[Goanet] Churchill Alemao Kutt’tale pot-vechnnuk loddoytolo?

2012-05-01 Thread Goa World
Churchill Alemao Kutt’tale pot-vechnnuk loddoytolo? BJP-che Porioton Montri ani Kuttalache amdar Mathany Saldanha ochkit sonvsarantle ghel’lean Kutt’tallachi zagall rikami zal’li. Venchnnuk Yoigan, pot-vechnnuk don Junank dovorlea. Goyantle sogllea raxttri pokxam modim aplo umedvar nivoddpak hal

Re: [Goanet] Goanet Digest, Vol 7, Issue 420

2012-05-01 Thread Santosh Helekar
I am glad that most Goanetters understand written English, and would therefore see the glaring folly in Marshall's fabricated "evidence No. 1", unless, of course, they base their trust in whatever crap Marshall writes out of religious or ideological loyalty. Marshall's English teacher would most

[Goanet] Hitting the RESET button

2012-05-01 Thread Rajan P. Parrikar
To Goanet - Vivian A. DSouza wrote: >Manohar Parrikar in my mind, is a good honest man, who has the interest of >Goans and Goa  >at heart.  However his infatuation with the Mopa airport is puzzling.  He must >be getting a lot  >of pressure from  certain quarters, and from people who have purcha

[Goanet] Goa news for May 2, 2012

2012-05-01 Thread Goanet News Service
Goa News from Google News and Goanet.org Visit http://www.goanet.org/newslinks.php for the full stories. *** Rave parties back in Goa? - New York Daily News eeks-navy-land-for-airport-expansion/992744.html">Goa seeks Navy land for airport expansion http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQ

[Goanet] Judge Desmond D'Costa

2012-05-01 Thread John Collaco
Sad this happened to a nizgoenkar and not many Goenkars on this forum raised their voice strongly enough against this flagrant usurp by the sinister powers in the temple of justice to "eliminate" Goan judges from consideration for higher posts. http://www.targetgoa.com/newsd-Judge-Desmond-D-Co

[Goanet] Goa Airport Solution

2012-05-01 Thread arwinmesquita
Centrally located Dabolim was originally a full civilian airport and was not planned to have a Navy Base. Appreciate that the Navy had used this temporarily for their earlier operations but this can't be made permanent. The Navy must move out of this residential region, which will as a result fi

Re: [Goanet] P & O cruise ship staff paid basic salary of 75 pence an hour.

2012-05-01 Thread Venantius J Pinto
One thing to bear in mind is that the Indian National media did not uncover this. It says a lot about the Guardian to be able to shame their own (and even if perhaps registered outside the UK). One more thing is the on some cruise lines the crew is not permitted to sell phone cards among themselve

Re: [Goanet] Hitting the RESET button

2012-05-01 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Rajan P. Parrikar wrote: My hope was that Manohar would turn a new leaf and that 'devlopment' (deliberately misspelt) would mean something other than land and concrete.  I am not so sure given what has been on display thus far.  In a recent email correspondence, Professor Nandkumar Kamat informed

[Goanet] Dabolim Airport...

2012-05-01 Thread Bernado Colaco
90% of voters (most ghantis) do not know that the airport is a spoils of war. A referendum will dictate the demise of Goa. The bharatis should know that Dabolim is not theirs and get their katli potli back to delhhi.   BC   ..the Manohar Parrikar Government should        hold a referndum - go to

[Goanet] International jazz day celebrated in Goa!

2012-05-01 Thread Jazz Goa
Jazz Goa celebrates International jazz day UNESCO recently declared the 30th of April as International jazz day, encouraging worldwide participation on and around the 30th of April every year. Jazz Goa celebrated it in style on the 1st of May in a second edition of 'Concert in the park' at the b