[Goanet] LAST SESSION OF THE CURRENT LACKLUSTRE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY

2021-10-20 Thread Aires Rodrigues
For the current Goa MLAs it was their last session of the Legislative Assembly. We elect Legislators to debate issues concerning the people and to enact good laws. The Assembly is the democratic forum where elected representatives must hold debates on matters that affect the people. It should affo

Re: [Goanet] A Frightful War IS about to Break......This a season and a Great Opportunity to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

2021-10-20 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas
I still am in the Bomb shelter ..Instead of explosive language ...why not have a candy stick competition or better still have a chocolate spoon competition ...basically I do not believe in violence even verbal license ..perhaps the Protagonist are just having fun Time to sleep Grandolfo

[Goanet] TALK-TODAY: Understanding Bread: How Can Goa Get Ahead?

2021-10-20 Thread Frederick Noronha
Goa has had long traditions in creating bread, but now the sector has come under pressure. Are there any options to take the field ahead? Emil Carvalho offers his insight into the same. His family, with its roots in Goa, has run the noted American Express Bakery in Bandra for some four generation

[Goanet] Take Welfare Without Guilt - You Deserve It

2021-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
Toronto Star answers the Ontario Premier’s reprimand to seemingly lazy new immigrants in an outback Australian type racist manner. Doug Ford is a born lout, an acolyte of Trump behaviour who would have been unemployable but was fortunately born with a silver spoon and given the legacy of a label

Re: [Goanet] I Wonder

2021-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
Apologies, his name was Jack Jersey. He dressed and sang like Elvis Presley, recording this song in 1975 when Elvis was 40 years old and he 34. > On Oct 20, 2021, at 3:36 PM, Roland Francis wrote: > > An oldie beautifully rendered by Jack Dempsey a Dutch singer, composer and > lyricist, har

[Goanet] I Wonder

2021-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
An oldie beautifully rendered by Jack Dempsey a Dutch singer, composer and lyricist, harmoniously accompanied by the Jordanaires, originally an American gospel group that ably backed celebrated pop stars like Elvis Presley. A favourite request on the erstwhile Radio Ceylon from Bombay’s young ‘u

[Goanet] The Dutch East India Company

2021-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
An interesting slice of history in the State of Travancore, a once powerful kingdom in the Indian subcontinent when there was no India and no Kerala. The wealth of the Dutch East India Company, of Travancore and of the temples in that region is mind-boggling. Credit to Bernice Pereira for her p

[Goanet] EVALUATING THE TMC FACTOR IN GOA

2021-10-20 Thread ELVIDIO MIRANDA
EVALUATING THE TMCFACTOR IN GOA Elvidio Miranda Many in Goa would consider the entry of Trinamool Congress (TMC) in Goan politics as a case of sheer political opportunism. However, the very fact that all parties including the major ones such as the BJP, Congress and a fast emerging AAP are serio

[Goanet] Millionaires For Christ

2021-10-20 Thread Roland Francis
An International Council of Investigative Journalists investigates how The Legion of Christ an organization involved in a pedophilia ring being investigated by the Vatican, clandestinely diverts large amounts of money through its trusts, into profitable New York rental apartments to avoid future

[Goanet] Schedule for Thursday 21st October 2021

2021-10-20 Thread CCR TV
CCR TV GOA Channel of God's love✝ You can also watch CCR TV live on your smartphone via the CCR TV App Available on Google PlayStore for Android Platform. Click the link below. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ccr.tv4 Email ID: ccrgoame...@gmail.com Schedule for Thursday 21st Octobe

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} And this is how Lucy tells a tale

2021-10-20 Thread Dilip D'Souza
October 20 2021 Browsing in a bookstore many years ago, on a whim I picked up a book called "Lucy's Child", by Donald Johanson. When I started reading, I simply could not put it down. It was about Johanson's discovery, in Africa, of a second hominid specimen in 1986. His first, found a decade earl

[Goanet] {Dilip's essays} Fruit flies like their wings

2021-10-20 Thread Dilip D'Souza
Oct 20 Something about the application of mathematics to other scientific fields always fascinates me, and somehow especially so when the other scientific field is biology. Now it's true, this particular effort I wrote about involved the mutilation of little flies, or at least yanking off their wi

[Goanet] A Frightful War IS about to Break......This a season and a Great Opportunity to Win the Nobel Peace Prize

2021-10-20 Thread Adolfo Mascarenhas
Following MAWLID also spelled as Maulid, the Prophet’s Birthday and a Public Holiday in Tanzania , I thought I would have a peaceful day and catch up. Post holiday , this dream was shattered when I saw Message 2 M-ID:cagnvrcuhvrh9v+dgqgwokutf5bomnjdmkfw8mhyd8hg2ibx...@mail.gmail.com> Thorou

[Goanet] Vamona Navelcar - (1929-2021)

2021-10-20 Thread Praba Mahajan
Friends, Pl. see below: The LINK to the article in SCROLL on artist Vamona Navelcar. best wishes, Praba Mahajan - https://scroll.in/article/1008013/vamona-navelcar-1929-2021-a-canvas-across-three-continents

[Goanet] Environmental & Sand Dune Proection: Checks and Balances?

2021-10-20 Thread Joao Barros-Pereira
Like oxygen, the environment is always with us, and when there is a shortage there is a problem. No activity - economic or not - can ignore the environment without the roof falling on our heads, metaphorically, at least. For decades now we have witnessed tiles and rafters and other bric-a-brac fa