[Goanet] Pain loss, sorrow, is personal and intimate

2020-12-23 Thread Nelson Lopes
Pain,loss is personal “The wearer knows best, where the shoe pinches”. When there is loss of a close family member, catastrophe, the pain, sorrow, loss is intimate and personal. It is difficult to share the depth of feelings , however hard we may try. If on the other hand the relationship is

[Goanet] Christmas Greetings from Canada.

2020-12-23 Thread Flora Marlow
Dear Family & Friends, As the holy feast of Christmas approaches, I wish to take this opportunity to wish you all, each and everyone of you a very Merry Christmas & a Happy & Prosperous New Year 2021. Now more than ever we must rejoice with the good news of the coming of our Redeemer; we

[Goanet] X'MAS MEMORIES

2020-12-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues
Christmas is a special time for sharing and celebrating the festive season with our family and friends in the joy and hope that we are blessed with. This year, like no other due to the pandemic we are left with no option but to share and cherish our fond memories of the Christmas in recent

[Goanet] LIBERATION

2020-12-23 Thread Bernado Colaco
Goan people are yet to understand that they got fooled on 18th December 1961 ie 59 years ago. I saw the videos on social media of the bundling away of the students etc. Worse than Salazar rule -no reason were given for the arrest. They even tell what to eat and what not to nowadays. Like in

[Goanet] Children's Book

2020-12-23 Thread Mervyn Maciel
My good friend, Dr. David Webster who I knew as a young boy in Northern Kenya(Marsabit) where his father was the Rural Dean o the B.C.M.S. Society, has just published a Children's book titled: ""The hedgehog who wanted to be a Squirrel" David, who worked as a Medical Officer both in Uganda and

[Goanet] From the Guinness World Records

2020-12-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Highest combined age, 12 living siblings WhoROSEMARIE DESOUZA ( D'CRUZ), DOREEN LEWIS (D'CRUZ), PAT D'CRUZ, GENEVIEVE FALCAO (D'CRUZ), RONALD D'CRUZ, BERYL D'CRUZ, JOE D'CRUZ, FRANCESCA LOBO (D'CRUZ), JOYCE DESOUZA ( D'CRUZ), ALTHEA PECUS (D'CRUZ), TERESA HEDINGER (D'CRUZ), GENIA CARTER (

[Goanet] Christmas greetings from Mervyn(s)

2020-12-23 Thread Mervyn Lobo
Folks,Bwana Mervyn Maciel sent me a video Christmas card which I thought was quite warm and interesting.  He mentioned that the file was too large for some accounts and as such, some of his friends could not open it. A lot of his friends are on Goanet - which does not allow attachments. So I

[Goanet] LIBERATION

2020-12-23 Thread John Eric Gomes
LIBERATING OURSELVES The visit of our President it appears on our actually 59th year completion of liberation, with many technical bloopers reported like mike not working at critical stage and at some other official 60th Liberation function flag not opening and so on indicating tolerance we

[Goanet] OUR AZAD MAIDAN MUST REMAIN AZAD

2020-12-23 Thread Aires Rodrigues
OUR AZAD MAIDAN MUST REMAIN AZAD The decision to prohibit any public protests at Panaji’s Azad Maidan is very high-handed and outrageous. A blatant assault on democracy. It is an irony that the move came on a day when the Government commenced a year long celebration of Goa’s 60th year of

[Goanet] Rupee the symbol of wealth

2020-12-23 Thread Antonio Menezes
The aim of the BJP economic wing is to make the Indian economy worth 5 trillion dollars in the near future. Let us all hope that this comes out to be true for we all will be beneficiaries of the economic miracle. The questions that arises is why express our economy in dollar terms and also why in