Re: [Goanet] Sindhis, Goa?

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
My post was based on two anecdotal sources: 1. My school friend of Casa International whom I mentioned in the article. 2. The acquaintances I made when learning Spanish (unrelated to college courses) from a Spanish priest in St Xavier’s College in Bombay. A few student age Sindhis from the Goa

[Goanet] Mando - A Blend of East and West

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
https://youtu.be/GO72ZueZuRM Roland.

[Goanet] Sindhis, Goa?

2018-08-26 Thread Marshall Mendonza
Roland Francis: This batch of Sindhis decided to go to Goa which was European ruled and where they felt they had a better future. It took only a short time to realize their limited opportunities there and the competition they faced from the existing small Ismaili business community who were

[Goanet] All Failed In Goa

2018-08-26 Thread Marshall Mendonza
George Pinto: All candidates failed this one question on the Goa Govenment Accounts Dept exam: Question: Is bribing a govt. official ok and expected in Goa? i.e. is corruption ok? Answer in Goa: Yes. All the 10,815 candidates being young and honest, had answered "No" which caused their immediate

[Goanet] Pope compares Church sexual abuse, corruption to excrement.

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
Power to this Pope for speaking out his mind and calling sexual abuse and corruption ‘excrement’. But this also means that his church has been covering up this excrement by merely transporting it to other of its holy places of worship. A pox on all those who facilitated this even by turning a

[Goanet] Not Worth The Paper...

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
Curated from The Quint: The World's Biggest Exam “For these lakhs of boys and girls desperately writing exam after exam in the hope of even the humblest of jobs, the education system has simply failed them,” writes R Srinivasan in his column for The Hindu. He points out how there are lakhs of

[Goanet] Iran Bad; Iran Women Good!

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
Perhaps a Goan NGO should be hiring some private detectives to photograph and follow Goa ministers going abroad on taxpayer dime, even for medical treatment. Minister resigns after vacation news with beauty queen goes viral -

[Goanet] Adelia De Costa

2018-08-26 Thread Roland Francis
Courtesy of Goan Voice UK. https://www.heraldgoa.in/Cafe/The-first-woman-neurologist-of-Goa-turns-90/135285.html She is one of the breed of doctors and specialists (like Francisco Colaco of Margao) for whom money means little, patient care a lot. In Bombay when asked what the patient should

[Goanet] Goa Medical College and Hospital in a GREAT MESS

2018-08-26 Thread Stephen Dias
What a mess in GMC with such a crowd at every OPD. Health Minister Viswajeet claims that GMC is one of the top Hospitals in Asia. He has mistsken. Please read my letter published in a weekly paper on Saturday under title SHAME GMC. Everyday I am hearing people cursing the Health Minister

[Goanet] Easy listening selection....Far away places....Bing Crosby.

2018-08-26 Thread Con Menezes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmGot9zFNoY --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

[Goanet] GOA GOVERNOR IS A VERY PRICEY WHITE ELEPHANT

2018-08-26 Thread Aires Rodrigues
The Supreme Court has rightly time and again frowned on the very indiscriminate exercise in providing security to VIPs. Uncalled for was that very huge deployment of police personnel yesterday in Divar as Governor Mridula Sinha was expected to visit the island on the occasion of the Bonderam

[Goanet] Fwd: Song for the day....Dean Martin - The Man Who Plays The Mandolino

2018-08-26 Thread Gabe Menezes
Another oldie that came to mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bCAd59yH-o -- DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes.