GOACOM.COM DAILY GOA NEWS CLIPS:: 13 Oct 2005

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FRANSA PAX SURVIVE RAIA SCARE
MAPUSA: Fransa Pax Football Club survived some anxious moments in the goal-mouth to come out unscathed and take home a point from Raia Sporting Clube in a goalless tie of the Goa Professional League at Duler ground, on October 12. (GT)

Milagres slams 4 in Salgaocar's big win
VASCO, Oct 12: Upcoming striker Milagres Gonsalves scored four goals to help defending champions Salgaocar SC to an emphatic 6-1 win over bottom-placed Mormugao Port Trust in a seventh round match of the Goa Professionals Football League at Tilak Maidan. (GT)

FONTAINHAS FEST NOW ON IFFI SHCEDULE
PANAJI: The inclusion of Fontainhas Festival as part of the entertainment programme for the ensuing International Film Festival of India 2005 has raised eyebrows in certain quarters in the State. It is learnt that the Entertainment Society of Goa, which met on Oct 5, finalised the programmes to be held during the 10-day IFFI Festival starting from 24 November this year. (GT)

Goa State Film Festival to open on 17 October
PANAJI: The 3rd Goa State Film Festival will be inaugurated by Governor SC Jamir at 5 pm on 17 October at Kala Academy. A popular Konkani film will be screened after the inaugural ceremony. The films that will vie for top honours are Kanteantlem Ful, Daulat, Sood, Aleesha, It's My Life, Chakra, Ordem Chador, Kallzache Ghave, Ek Dis and Eka Sagar Kinari. (GT)

FONTAINHAS FESTIVAL
PANAJI: The Fontainhas Festival of the Arts 2005 will be held in the heritage precinct of Fontainhas-Mala from 26 November to 3 December by the Goa Heritage Action Group with the Entertainment Society of Goa, the Corporation of the City of Panaji and the Department of Tourism, Government of Goa, as festival partners. This is a unique festival that uses the heritage houses in the precinct as temporary art galleries. It is designed to be an international event with Goan houses as a backdrop and Goa as a venue. The festival involves the exhibition and sale of art form private houses. There are also performances in the evenings with performers from all over the world. The high point of the festival will be lectures delivered by five great Indian art personalities. (GT)

AKSHADA BRIDGE AT ST ESTEVAM
PONDA: PWD Minister, Sudin Dhavlikar, inaugurated a single-lane bridge at Akshada in St Estevam village. This 40-metre bridge, costing Rs.66,04,000 and completed in 18 months, is the only road connecting Akshada island to village St Estevam. The existing old bridge is dilapidated and no vehicles can ply over it anymore. (GT)

Shifting of Curca jail embroiled in legal tangle
PANAJI: The government's decision to construct a full-fledged prison at Colva instead of Curca, wouldn't be an easy task! In an order on 22 March 2005, a bench of the Bombay High Court, Panaji, had passed an order stating that the government has to expedite the work at Curca jail and to that effect the legislature can't overrule the judiciary. (GT)

READING THE 'FINE' PRINT
BY NEETA SHENOY
Reading books, journals, magazines and newspapers is still religiously done; despite the television and the Internet. The head librarian of the Central Library, Panjim, Ms Lourdes Bravo da Costa Rodrigues, said, "We have a large membership here. Currently, we have over 7300 members and they have access to over 1,50,000 books." (GT)

Grand Jazz Assembly plays for BELINDA
Belinda's caricature by Alexyz PANJIM, Oct 12: Accomplished jazz musicians formed one of the best Jazz assemblies in the country to regale the audience at Gonsalves Mansion at Campal, this evening, in a charity concert for jazz vocalist Belinda Olivera is fighting a battle against cancer at the Manipal Hospital. Belinda's wonderful voice has been admired by jazz lovers in the country as well as America. Among the jazz legends who performed at the benefit event figured Braz Gonsalves, Louis Banks, Yvonne Gonsalves, Frank Dubia, Lester Godinho, Suzzie, Sheldon Luis, Amit Heri, Gino Banks and others. Some scenes from the rain-drenched yet superb show. At the Gonsalves Gallery were the aesthetic paintings by contemporary Goan artists Suhas Shilkar, Harshada Naik Kerkar, Mohan Naik and Sonia Rodrigues Sabharwal. On auction were Belinda's caricature by Alexyz, a painting by Deviprasad Rao and coupons by Wendell Rodricks. (DGNC)

Braz & Yvonne Gonsalves	Louis (white) & Gino Banks
Lester Godinho at the drums	Paintings: Shilkar (r), Harshada

IFFI men in a tizzy
PANJIM, Oct 12: Preparations for IFFI 2005 seem to be in the midst of mega hiccups with the panic-stricken organisers desperately searching for hotel accommodation. A late start to all the arrangements seems to be jeopardising plans as most hotels in North Goa are unavailable on account of prior bookings for the tourist season. (H)

Ray of hope for 34 Goans in overseas job racket
MUMBAI, Oct 12: There is some ray of hope for 34 Goans, among 437 others, who have ben duped by a Mumbai-based recruitment 'firm' on a promise of overseas jobs. Mumbai city police have arrested two persons for cheating persons - Yusuf Sabir Sayyed and Toufiq Ahmed Shaikh - at Dadar. The duo had opened an office at Hind Industrial Estate at Dadar and issued an advertisement in the newspapers in Goa, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu for providing jobs in United Kingdom, the Netherlands and other countries. (UNI report in Herald)

House burgled in Socorro
PORVORIM: Unidentified persons entered into a house belonging to Ceasar Fernandes at Josvaddo in Socorro and decamped with one CD player and household articles, totally valued at Rs.44,990. (GT)

Austrian found dead in Anjuna
ANJUNA: The Anjuna police on October 4 recovered the body of Mario Mareno, an Austrian national, found lying dead at Sea Queen Hotel at Mazalvaddo. The foreigner had checked in at the hotel on 9 October but failed to come out of his room upto 11 October. It is pertinent to note that the owner of the hotel, Gurudas V Morajkar of D'Mello vaddo, had sworn an affidavit in the Bombay High Court at Panaji that he would not accommodate any tourist at the hotel until all required permissions were obtained by him, since the construction falls within the 500 metres radius of the Coastal Regulation Zone. (GT)

Nigerian escapee in black dollar racket arrested in Guwahati
PANJIM, Oct 122: The Nigerian accused, identified as David, in the infamous 'black dollar' racket, who fled from custody in Goa, has been recently re-arrested in Guwahati...The gang gets its name from a heist in Goa in which its members used "black dollars" (black paper cut to dollar size) to dupe a hotelier. The gang convinced the hotelier to pay them $3,000, promising to double his money. They left him with a stack of "black dollars" which they said would turn into $6,000 if he stored it in the refrigerator. "They even told the hotelier that the black paper would turn into genuine notes when soaked in a solution. Obviously, they used sleight of hand while giving demonstrations to convince their victims," a source said. (H)

Merces, Chimbel VPs to oppose inclusion of St Cruz into PDA
PANAJI, Oct 12: The village panchayat of Chimbel and Merces have extended their support to the agitation launched by the Santa Cruz constituency action citizens committee, opposing the inclusion of the St Cruz constituency into the North Goa Planning and Development Authority. The constituency includes the villages of St Cruz, Chimbel and Merces. (NT)

Language fair at Kala Academy
PANJIM: The Consulate General of Portugal and Alliance Francaise de Goa will be holding a whole day language fair in the framework of the initiative "Celebrating Language Diversity" on October 14 from 1.30 am at Kala Academy. (H)

Colva Fama
MARGAO: The traditionalFama of the miraculous Infant Jesus will be celebrated at Colva Church on October 17. Parish priest, Fr Diogo Fernandes, will be the main celebrant of the solemn Mass scheduled at 6 am. The statue of Menino Jesus will be kept for public veneration. (H)

It's either the husband or the wife
CANACONA: If it is not the wives, it is the husbands. That seems to be the principle, which governs who among the husband and wife duo enters the fray in municipal polls. And this can be seen clearly in Canacona Municipal Council polls. Two former councillors, who had to quit the contest as the reservation for female candidates has been lifted, have somehow ensured their family involvement in local politics. (GT)

UZVADDANT KALLOK staged in Delhi
PANAJI, Oct 12: Goans and other Konkani speaking people from in and around Delhi were treated to a tiatr on October 9, 2005. A twenty-member troupe from Goa entertained the audience with Uzvaddant Kallok (Darkness amidst Light), a tiatr written and directed by Comedian Domnick. The event took place at Fr Agnel's School auditorium, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi. The chief guests for the evening were Mr Churchill Alemao, MP, South Goa, Auxiliary Bishop of Delhi, Rev Anil Couto, and Mr Sheikh Hassan Haroon, former minister for industries. (NT)