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*By Lionel Messias, Independent Journalist, Ex-Mid-Day, The Pioneer, Indian Express, Economic Times, Gulf News.* *Making a meal of it.* Hungry for power only? Right, but not entirely. Our politicians are also hungry for chow. The adage, do you live to eat or eat to live, takes an altogether new

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Garden of Eden - 1 Laying it on thick You need to have an imagination for what I am about to reveal, and imagination you have. You just gotta to have it in Goa. Imagine just how little it would take to renovate a garden of 570 sq m. Then imagine, your government is currently spending Rs 1,59,68,2

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* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Renew your wedding vows in Goa, or gift a C

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Book Worm *Reading Habit* It boggles the mind. When your *montris *want to make money they have ingenious ways to do that. Once before, if you remember, despite you not being great film buffs, they smothered you with IFFI. The big bucks got bigger for them despite all the reels they give us about

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The Reading Habit - Final *How the Library came about* Here's another perplexing item on the Central Library. The land on which it is being built was first acquired on behalf of the Education Department. It was later transferred to the Directorate of Art & Culture (DAC) – I am not sure if at that

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RTI - Right to Ignore *Mountain of a Mole Hill!* Remember the hill that came crashing down at Porvorim, and caused an upheaval in your travel routine. Then there was this other one, opposite the Ribandar ferry to Divar. This one went unnoticed, the PWD got into the act rather quickly, and now it l

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*Taking us for a ride* Look around and watch the cars our ministers, MLAs and IAS officers travel in. There is never a shortage of official four wheels or the latest model update on the road. If you don't see one it is because you are not looking, or frankly couldn't care a fig. But there seem to

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Ferrytale - II *Shock and awe* My investigation of the ferry problem exposed two amazing facts. One I can understand, the other I can't. Approximately, Rs 9 cr is spent by the government to run the ferry service every year. That I can understand. If there is a disruption in service, more often tha

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Ferrytale -III *Fairy Tale of Ferries * Twenty-eight rivers to be crossed in Goa, but only 23 ferries available to you – an inexplicable shortfall of five. And, did it cross your mind that if the government takes Mauvin Godinho pitching for one Ravindra Bhavan per taluka seriously, you will end up

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*Cock and Bull stories *‘Pay parking is the need of the hour, since parking is free everybody brings four wheelers to the cities, mostly shopkeepers and businessmen, who park their vehicles for the whole day,’ said Arvind Gawas, SP to Herald. Let’s not even bother to dissect the absurdity of his a

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*Oath of Hypocrites * The Hippocratic Oath generally spelt out how doctors should ethically practice their trade. But, you should know that I intentionally avoided using the word medicine. That was in another millennium. Times have changed. There is a new ‘oath’ that offers doctors commissions tha

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LIONROARS LIONEL MESSIAS *SEZ tsunami/ tsunami ‘SEZ’ * The minister most concerned about getting jobs for Goans by creating SEZs and his pal, a commissioner with a globetrotting devotion to WHERE Goans have migrated, besides a professed love for getting jobs for non-resident Goans; have ano

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*Great Will for China* In a country where very, very little English is spoken and where IT, at least IT-related hardware is mass produced, the scale (that is, planning, execution and investment) would be extremely difficult for Goa’s babus and Dayanand Narvekar to begin to even comprehend. If you

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Sunday, January 24, 2010 Mr No-All Denial Mode "There is no drug scene in Goa. It is created by the media, by press people. You will not get drugs here.” That was Goa’s home minister Ravi Naik. Normally one would say famous last words, but

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Touche’ A friend tells me that when she went to Paris over 20 years ago, the one pleasure she looked forward to is to smoke in public and not scandalize anyone. Since then smoking is not so cool and smoking in public is a no-no. Many bars in Goa have a no smoking sign and most respect the ban too

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Fish out of water That’s us, you and me, the real fish out of water albeit in a different context here. Remember last week I said that there’s this scheme called the ‘Goa Value Added Tax based subsidy on HSD oil consumed by fishing vessels scheme 2006’ wherein an amount equivalent to Rs 6 per litr

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* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training a

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* G * O * A * N * E * T *** C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is looking to build a centre for services, training a

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*A Madame Tussauds for Goa?* Perhaps the oldest colonial edifice in Goa, the old Secretariat building, or Adil Shah Palace or Palacio da Idalcao is currently being renovated at a cost of Rs 3,86,37,880 and the expenditure required to complete the renovation is currently pegged at Rs 7,25,62,120

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August 20 - WORLD GOA DAY Celebrating the inclusion of Konkani in the 8th schedule of the Indian Constitution on August 20, 1992 For a list of World Goa Day events see:

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*Faleiro’s ‘One small step for Goa, one giant leap for Goans’* Jai Ho Taiwan! Eduardo Faleiro, Commissioner for NRI Affairs, could be off to Taiwan in October on the off chance, he said so himself, he might bump into some Goans there. Good luck to him. To the best of my knowledge there are two Goa

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Sound and fury *Finger pointing* If you have been reading the Herald, you would have read of the allegations, finger pointing etcetera etcetera leveled by Sheila Gracias and Dr. Marconi Correia at the Cansaulim-Arrosim-Cuelim-Village

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Privy purse *Third dimensional* At least someone wrote in to say she was in agreement with what I said last week … that a good many anti-building activists raising a ruckus are those who own small plots of land but with their homes alre

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* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wed

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* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wed

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*Lion Roars* *Civic Rights Don't Matter* Does it always have to be so overwhelmigly against the real Goemkar? Pandurang Madkaikar's defense of the stall owners (almost all non-Goans including other illegal squatters of Church land) at Old Goa whose illegal stalls were demolished by the government

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Hullabaloo over IT Dayanand Narvekar's accusation that his own government, "clandestinely conceded a financial benefit" to the extent of Rs 1,060 cr to United Telecom Ltd for the government's broadband dream scheme, makes strange reading. It's actually a long-winding complaint he got tabled in the

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LIONROARS LIONEL MESSIAS Is the pot calling the kettle black? Some weeks ago Dayanand Narvekar accused his own government of clandestinely conceding a financial benefit of Rs 1,060 cr to United Telecom Ltd in the broadband project. This is his own scoresheet while he was briefly (thank God for sm

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Goa as the Land of Opportunity *We the People* Last week I wrote how the Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) refused to divulge information that would be released to citizens in most democracies, certainly India’s. But, it chose instead to make it look like the Right to Information Act w

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*Diju’s Ordinance. Even Goa ain’t seen anything like this before.* Aam aadmi was a word coined by this very government and Congress party to make a point, which after La Affaire Cidade means bullshit to you and me, not that it meant anything before, you know that. ‘Diju’s Ordinance’ the phrase to

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Easy Come Easy Go(a) *Loaded Dice* Its election time again, and therefore it is issue time also; more appropriately casino issue time. There is the archetypical twist in the tale as well. It’s in the gamble Manohar Parrikar is taking. Ask yourself why on earth is he on Hotel Majestic’s case all o

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*GIDC’s cover-ups* It is amazing how Goa’s various rungs of the Mafiosi work in the twilight zone and also the power they wield. Last week I acquainted you with two covert operatives who operate with impunity within the Goa Industrial Development Corporation. One is a field officer based at the Ve

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Remembering Aquino Braganca (b. 6 April 1924), who fought for freedom of the former Portuguese colonies in Africa. An online tribute http://aquinobraganca.wordpress.com/ (includes many historical refer

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Traffic Jam on the Mandovi *A ‘Touch and Go’ problem* I love this turn of phrase coined by the Captain of Ports Department because it describes exactly how this government lives – precariously. Everything it does is usually ‘up in the air.’ A case in point is the eight pleasure boats that were not

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*Take a Rest(yl) Agent S* Over the space and time of three columns titled ‘GIDC’s cover-ups,’ ‘We the People,’ and ‘Is the pot calling the kettle black’ the activities of a certain Agent S and Agent B in ‘arranging’ plots at various industrial estates were exposed. Well, this really pissed off Age

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*Ho, Ho, Ho* Though Christmas is months away and there’s the monsoon to come first, I am constrained to use the term exhilarated because Panjim’s First Lady Caroline Po’s Eureka-like recognition of the fact that Panjim has both garbage and parking problems, brought that out. Nasty me. Seriously,

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*Emperor rules* Would the Maquinez Palace at the Old GMC precinct in Campal, Panjim have been better off if the Entertainment Society of Goa had simply pawned it off to that *Dilli *mall wallah. Many think so. Now look what you have to put up with; a luxurious, just-can’t afford, *tamasha *called

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*Benefits now, taxes later* Tax collections have become quite a fashion in Goa these days. They appear to have every connotation you can think of including the philosophy behind taxation, except, of course, the thought of how it originally started. For the good and benefit of the taxpayer, that is

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A tall story *Social activism corporatized * For months I have wondered ‘why is the Margao-based Goa Hitkaran Manch (GHM) so heated up and as a result hyperactive over the way Pristine Homes Pvt. Ltd based in Cansaulim runs its business.’ Till the beginnings of an investigation fell into my lap, fr

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*Inspector Gadget * Marine Commmando Squad, Missing Persons Squad – these are not American TV serials which have stories inspired by real life. These are among the units that our Home Minister Ravi Naik intends to set up in Goa. All these names have a nice ring to them and Ravi Naik knows he’ll ge

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* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Sangath, www.sangath.com, is one of Goa's leading NGOs. Sangath is looking to

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*The other side of midnight* The last few weeks have been quite an eye-opener. I rave and rant about Goa being sold to outsiders but they are not the only villains if you find a hill being cut or a field which used to have plentiful tamdibhaji now becoming a concrete jungle, or a block of apartmen

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Travails behind a dream house *Garden Undone* Battle lines have been drawn at Chowgule Gardens in Zuari Nagar close to the Reliance power plant where reps of 114 resident families took me on a tour last Sunday narrating a series of unfulfilled promises made by Chowgule Real Estate & Construction C

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--- Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment and Forests (I/C) to maintain the moratorium on issuing further environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa ht

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A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY All that glitters is not gold It’s what Indian politicians do, acquire land and donate it to rich industrialists who never look a gift horse in the mouth, but the extent to which Goan politicians will go to boggles the mind in land-scarce Goa. This attempt to acquire land ne

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Weighty issues Going (coco)nuts over Assembly questions Not a week passes without some central government ministry, state ministry, or the Supreme Court making some comment or the other on the justification of the Right To Information (that’s the only right you have in India gifted by Sonia Gandhi

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VAT's Going On? VAT’s what and What’s VAT That’s what. Most of you know that VAT (Value Added Tax) is the new tax regime that replaced the old. Some of you in industry know of another VAT regime named after the daughter of a certain south Goa politician based out of Circuit House in Margao, Goa’s

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Lionroars -4 Eternal damination Here is another festering sore of a tale to tell. A rich Delhi honcho is building his Goa abode on a road widening area in Cobra vaddo in Calangute, right in front of a chapel where parishioners pray. The site was inspected by the Public Works Department (PWD) on

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*May 13-19, 2013* * BJP now the party goer* It used to be the Congress that was adept at wasting your tax monies. It was like an allergy they couldn’t get rid of. Remember those lavish dinners and entertaining their MLAs and bureaucrats did at the cost of the taxpayer. Remember too Eduardo Fal

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Hi Lionel, I wish to reply to your ROAR with some input of my own, OK? - Original Message From: Lionel Messias lionroars@gmail.com *Cock and Bull stories *‘Pay parking is the need of the hour, since parking is free everybody brings four wheelers to the cities, mostly shopkeepers and b

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9890470896 - Original Message - From: "Lionel Messias" To: Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 4:34 PM Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars *list of posts* ** Rich Man, Poor Man *Cue on queue* Soon I will have to stand in a queue at my panchayat waiting to be issued a permit that pro

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fully not Goa's hum sab (us too ?). Or could it be a kapaad?! venantius > From: "floriano" > Subject: Re: [Goanet] Lion Roars > Could our brazen montris be leading themselves to the slaughter-house for a > halal ???. > > floriano > goasuraj > 9890470896 > >

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ace without checking the details ... Gabriel. - Original Message From: Lionel Messias To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Wednesday, 2 September, 2009 6:05:59 PM Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars **Wasted Effort* My point is Indian embassies are as a rule uncooperative and not accommodating.

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To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars *Inspector Gadget * Marine Commmando Squad, Missing Persons Squad - these are not American TV serials which have stories inspired by real life. These are among the units that our Home Minister Ravi Naik intends to set up in Goa. All these names have a

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inal Message From: Lionel Messias To: goanet@lists.goanet.org Sent: Thursday, 16 July, 2009 9:09:32 PM Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars *Name of Item / Amount* Harmonium -21,02,100 Pakhvaz - 7,50,750 Zamkhan - 3,39,456 Cymbal (Taal) - 3,84,930 Keyboard - 8,00,000 Violin - 2,26,575 Guitar - 2,82,

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If I'm not mistaken, this refers to a government scheme to "Provide Musical Instruments and Performance Related Material to Cultural Troupes". As the name itself suggests, the same is given to a number of groups. While you could debate the priorities, how would you be able to judge whether the cym

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रिक न To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" Sent: Friday, 17 July, 2009 5:24:42 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] Lion Roars If I'm not mistaken, this refers to a government scheme to "Provide Musical Instruments and Performance Related Material to Cultural Troupes". A

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Goascam

*Marketing of a scam * This is how it’s done in scamgoa.com. First get the Goa State Infrastructure Development Corporation (GSIDC) to build something as big as is possible, like the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) market. For a size guestimate, look at the Ravindra Bhavan being built on t

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Goa Broke?

*Fishy fiscal propriety* Is Goa going broke? If the answer is no, it could well be getting there. A former development commissioner now back in Delhi once told me the direction in which the Digambar Kamat government was heading, it would hit financial road’s end sooner than later weighed down as i

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Football Politics

LION ROARS Goan football’s repulsive side There is an obnoxious side to Goan football, the most popular game on the planet. This story begins with Churchill Alemao wanting to be president of the Goa Football Association for the term 2010-14. One obstacle he faced was the fact that his brother Joa

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Not so cool

Blistering May It’s going to be blistering the rest of May, sizzling even. Remember the Rs. 7,40,686 that Shaikh Aftab scammed in his capacity as supervisor of the accounts and taxation section of the Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP). The sting was first exposed by the Comptroller and Accou

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Austerity, what's that??

FLYING CIRCUS -11 A healthy flight schedule This week let’s have a look at the travel forays of Vishwajeet Rane, the Minister for Health. Yes, the man and his henchmen called the Group of Seven (G7) whose constant pressure on the Chief Minister Digambar Kamat to quit is like a virus that has no c

[Goanet] Lion Roars -Flying Club VI

Thanksgiving to the Lord I said it before and I say it again. Tirupati is like a magnet for many of our montris and our chief montri. He was there on June 23. It’s not a coincidence that Kamath was there days after Babush merged his UGDP into the Congress giving the Grand Old Party 19 MLAs. That’s

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Flying Circus VII

*Will he upgrade?* *Jose Philip D’Souza, Minister for Revenue* Mercifully, he is not much of a frequent flier. He made 24 flights during that same period. But, now that he has become the National Congress President, heaven help us! Pray that his fairly regular patronage of Economy Class (ten of 2

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Flying Circus VIII

*Government of gatecrashers* It’s terrifying the way the Congress government acquires land, your land. One way to avoid that would be to sell your land, if you have sizeable tracts of it, that is, and if it lies next to or near an existing industrial estate. Of course if you are a bhatcar with la

Re: [Goanet] Lion roars - Up Stethoscope

Lionel, obviously there are scams within scams. In the unfortunate event that you have a cardiac problem and you need health care at a speciality hospital, the surgeon who is going to replace your heart valves, insert all kinds of stents or whatever, is going to take the Government/ Insurance Co. t

[Goanet] Lion Roars -Wine and Dine

*Party Time -1* They spent Rs 93,42,544 (see earlier Flying Circus series) flying over a relatively short period of less than two years. Nobody knows why really or what was achieved from it, except the flying was primarily to Mumbai and Delhi, some of it to holiday destinations and pilgrim centres

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Party Time - II

*Food for thought* Chief Minister Digambar Kamat spent Rs 22,07,748 entertaining between April 2009-February 2010. It was the turn next of Vishwajeet Rane, the Health Minister. But above the aroma of food, is a certain rot that could become like a resident rot (like decaying wood in your window f

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Party Time - III

*Carte du jour* The Minister for Revenue Jose Philip entertained modestly (remember, his flying too was moderate compared to his compadres) between April 2009-February 2010, the only relevance here for you as a taxpayer is he entertained some unnamed officials on June 5 and on November 6 he enter

Re: [Goanet] Lion Roars - Goa Broke?

on the Home Page - 'Annoucements' Section - Original Message - From: "Lionel Messias" To: Sent: Monday, August 23, 2010 3:21 PM Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars - Goa Broke? *Fishy fiscal propriety* Is Goa going broke? If the answer is no, it could well be getting ther

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Faleiro Flying Files

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[Goanet] Lion Roars - Driving You Crazy

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[Goanet] Lion Roars - Only in Goa

Miss Moneypenny flows It rained this year more than even Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, could have predicted even if he could be accused of shooting off yet another set of rigged up figures on climate change. In case, you’ve missed this – even gl

Re: [Goanet] Lion Roars -Wine and Dine

To Goanet - Lionel, Kudos to you for these reports exposing the criminal waste of public resources. Notice that the usual suspects who are otherwise exercised about trivia have little to say about this. You won't find articles and editorials in newspapers calling for an investigation o

Re: [Goanet] Lion Roars - Party Time - III

Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 5:09 PM Subject: [Goanet] Lion Roars - Party Time - III *Carte du jour* The Minister for Revenue Jose Philip entertained modestly (remember, his flying too was moderate compared to his compadres) between April 2009-February 2010, the only relevance here for you as a

[Goanet] Lion Roars -Polluter does not pay

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[Goanet] Lion Roars - Consultancy, the money spinner

The Ghost Who Walks The contract for the colossal new Collectorate building being built at Margao was tendered in December 2007 at a cost of Rs 73,46,34,449. It won’t be ready in June 2010 as scheduled but in December and the cost has already escalated to Rs 77.50 cr which was expected. In fact, a

[Goanet] Lion Roars: Some Pain, but all Gain?

*UP STETHOSCOPE* Suspecting they are being scammed, at least 18 insurance companies, including four in the public sector, have delisted more than 150 hospitals in Delhi and the National Capital Region (or NCR, which is basically the Delhi region) from their designated list for Mediclaim insurance

[Goanet] Lion Roars- Wining and Dining Faleiro-style

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[Goanet] Lion Roars - Politicians are about self-development

Egg or chicken? What will come first, the much delayed Regional Plan 2021 for Goa or Goa’s Mineral Policy? If the former is out first, this government will fall and that is the odds on favourite and not all the income tax raids in the world will make Humpty Dumpty (read as in the seven MLA’s cal

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Pigs have wings - Flying Circus(V)

More reason to squeal like pigs He was in the news recently for all the wrong reasons, calling us names, proving yet again and like a spoilt child that he just wouldn’t tolerate even being rapped on the knuckles. Actually he was, ahem, squealing like a pig! Remember, he accused the concerned citiz

[Goanet] Lion Roars- Don't have wings, but will still fly

Flying Circus back in town -1 Yes, I am back with the Flying Circus and the flying expenses of ourmontris courtesy your tax bucks. Your Chief Minister spent Rs 13,26,144 flying mainly to New Delhi between April, 2008 and January 2010 my guess is on those frequent fire-fighting missions to stave of

[Goanet] Lion Roars- Mickky made merrry flying (Flying Circus -V)

SAVE AS DRAFT Flying Circus - V You ain't seen nothin yet! Fortunately for your tax bucks, Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco, the former Minister for Tourism blinked first in the Mexican stand-off and resigned, but d

[Goanet] Lion Roars - Sell-out of Goa by its politicians

*Calling the kettle black* The Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) having its own way in Goa is nothing new. It’s because our politicians, unlike those in other States, just hate to protect anything that is Goan or can be identified as part of Goa. Only recently, the MPT became an exception for the ruling C