It is very improper and preposterous to blame Sidhivinayak Naik and make him the scapegoat in the Sonsoddo Garbage dump imbroglio. The infamous Sonsoddo fiasco has been raging for decades while Sidhivinayak Naik was the Chief Officer at the Margao Municipal Council(MMC) only from July last year. At the MMC we have seen a merry-go-round […]
Month: December 2019
OUR RESPECTED PADMA SHRI SURESH AMONKAR WAS A BRAVE LIVING INSPIRATION TO THOSE BATTLING CANCER
In the death of Goa’s Padma Shri and noted educationist Suresh Gundu Amonkar our already intellectually impoverished State has lost one of the few remaining very inspiring and true Goenkars. I am myself now without a true friend who was always ever so candid. At 84 he was a tall and extremely affable personality and source of […]
DON’T SQUANDER PUBLIC FUNDS ON STATUES AND MEMORIALS
The British statesman and political thinker Edmund Burke had said “The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse” It is absolutely despicable that a very cash strapped and heavy debt-ridden Goa Government has had the cheek to make a budget provision of a whopping ten crores to build a Manohar Parrikar memorial on the […]
ACACIO TAVARES – RIBANDAR’S MAN OF THE MOMENT
A very proud moment for Ribandar with our very multi-talented Acacio Tavares having been selected for this year’s Goa State Cultural Award in Western Music. For Acacio what began as a hobby during leisure time strumming his guitar later on turned to be his profession with a passion. Acacio first stumbled upon an opportunity to […]
QUO VADIS OUR INDIA
Rapes and Murders have become the order of the day. The recent gruesome Hyderabad gang rape and murder of a lady veterinarian has further sullied the reputation of our nation. That the alleged four rapists had a quick and swift encounter with the law has come as a relief and spared the state exchequer from a […]
JUNGLE RAJ IN PANAJI
One of the Casinos has its lounge cum sales counter on part of the ground floor of the Fisheries department building on Panaji’s D.B Marg. After having merrily defaced the premises, now as part of the further Casino promotion they are altering the entire frontage of the building itself and are carrying out the work […]
AIRES ACCUSES CM PRAMOD SAWANT OF ATTEMPTING TO GRAB LAND BY DEVIOUSLY CLAIMING TO BE A MUNDKAR
Adv. Aires Rodrigues has accused Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant of seeking to grab more land and this time a plot of land bearing Survey No. 60/8 in Cotombi, Bicholim by claiming to be a Mundkar. Adv. Rodrigues stated that it has been shockingly revealed in the information obtained by him under the Right to […]
STOP PANAJI’S DISASTER IN THE MAKING
With Panaji’s Patto Plaza area already witnessing incessant and perennial flooding, the government needs to conduct a proper professional research and ecological study before venturing in its lofty mission to set up Goa’s tallest building on this eco-sensitive reclaimed land. Lack of proper planning while cluttering of environmentally incompatible new constructions all over without the […]
THE PANAJI SMART CITY ROGUES MUST NOT BE SPARED
Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant had summoned a public interaction of that beleaguered Imagine Panaji Smart City Development Limited (IPSCDL) with the citizens of Panaji on 28th May at the Menezes Braganza Hall in Panaji but at the last minute he abruptly cancelled it while publicly assuring us all that it would be very soon re-scheduled. It is […]
GOA MUST BE FREE OF CASINOS
Merely shifting some Casinos them from the Panaji side of River Mandovi across to Verem is an eyewash. It is not a solution as the Casinos need to be driven out of Goa to save our now tarnished State from further ruin. While as the Leader of the Opposition Manohar Parrikar had vociferously branded Casinos as a […]