To everyone’s surprise one of the most inefficient and extremely incompetent officer of the Goa Administration has been appointed to the all important and sensitive post of Director of Vigilance. Sanjeev Gauns Dessai, the former Director of Tourism along with his former Tourism Minister Dilip Parulekar are under the scanner of the Goa Lokayukta in the […]
Month: April 2017
REMEMBERING DR WILFRED DE SOUZA ON HIS 90th BIRTH ANNIVERSARY
Dr Wilfred de Souza was a gregarious, outspoken and a great Goan. The outstanding surgeon turned politician had a very long innings on Goa’s political turf. With surgical precision he was the architect of many governments he assembled and also dismantled. He was very knowledgeable, a person with whom you could have an enlightening interaction on any issue. […]
STOP CRIMINAL WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS
In a democracy there can be no room to foment VIP culture. With the red beacon now gone, it’s time to stop those crores being squandered on providing police security for Ministers and their kin. Politicians who are apprehensive about their personal safety should either hire their own personal body guards or fade away from […]
TIME FOR MANOHAR PARRIKAR TO GRACEFULLY QUIT AND LEAVE GOA IN PEACE
Manohar Parrikar has finally confessed what we all knew, that he quit as Defence Minister because he could not take the pressure of the job. Infact due to his disastrous performance as Defence Minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just waiting for an opportunity to bundle him out. It was on account of this that […]
THE HOAX COMMON MINIMUM PROGRAMME
Vijai Sardesai should stop trying to hoodwink Goans on the so called Common Minimum Programme that he had deviously earlier claimed was in principle accepted by the BJP. Vijai had consistently demanded the scrapping of the Goa Investment Promotion Board which he had always alleged was BJP’s massive den for Corruption. Now in a U […]
FR BISMARQUE DIAS DESERVES TO REST IN PEACE
I would have been failing in my bounden duty if I had not sought the intervention of the Goa Human Rights Commission, as it is unacceptable that for no logical reason, the body of our dear warrior, Fr Bismarque Dias continues to rot in the morgue of the Goa Medical College for over 17 long […]
ABUSE OF POWER
Rohan Khaunte and Vinod Paliencar started their innings as Ministers on a very wrong note by high-handedly acting like cowboys. The role of Ministers and MLAs is to formulate good policies while also enacting the needed laws and not to check the muster rolls of staff in the departments. That is the task of the […]
MANOHAR PARRIKAR IS IN CLEAR CONTEMPT OF THE SUPREME COURT
By making it public that on the liquor ban order he is waiting for the Supreme Court bench to change, Goa Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar is in clear and rank contempt of the Supreme Court. That too, coming from the mouth of the Chief Minister of a State is even more damning. What does he […]
GHRC SEEKS REPORT FROM CS & DIRECTOR OF ACCOUNTS OVER DELAY IN PROCESSING PENSION PAPERS
The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) comprising of A.D.Salkar and J.A Keny has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and Director of Accounts seeking a detailed report within four weeks over the inordinate delay in processing the pension papers of retiring government employees. In the complaint attention of the GHRC was drawn that many employees […]
GHRC TO HEAR PETITION OVER FR BISMARQUE DIAS’S BODY LYING IN MORGUE FOR OVER 16 MONTHS
The Goa Human Rights Commission (GHRC) comprising of A.D.Salkar and J.A Keny will on 3rd April hear the petition that the body of late Fr. Bismarque Dias is lying in the morgue at Goa Medical College for over 16 months and the final rites yet not conducted. The GHRC has already issued notices to the Chief Secretary, Director General of Police […]