It is deplorable that the Town and Country Planning Board is continuing to consider applications for Zone change under Section 16 B of the TCP Act despite that provision being under challenge before the High Court. This colossal environmental degradation that Goa has been witnessing over the years by way of rampant destruction of hills, […]
Month: January 2020
WE CONTINUE TO GRAPPLE WITH BAD ROADS
We were assured last year that after the monsoons all the roads in Goa would be hot mixed but we have to continue enduring with potholed roads across the state which are in a very awful condition. The roads in Ribandar continue in a pathetic and precarious state despite the undertaking given by the authorities […]
OUR RIBANDAR’S ACACIO TAVARES HAS DONE US ALL PROUD
Last evening while our Ribandar’s great son, the so multi-talented Acacio Tavares was being conferred the Goa State Cultural Award in Western Music at Kala Academy it was a extremely proud moment for every Ribandarite. For Acacio what began as a hobby during leisure time strumming his guitar later on turned to be his profession […]
SAFEGUARDING INDIA’S HIGHEST TEMPLE OF JUSTICE FROM A DACOIT
Let us all be very confident that our very Honourable Chief Justice of India Sharad Arvind Bobde will not even remotely consider the name of the extremely notorious criminal minded Atmaram Nadkarni for elevation as a Supreme Court Judge. We have known our now Chief Justice of India (CJI) while he presided as Judge of the […]
RULE OF LAW MUST PREVAIL AT ALL TIMES
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s knee-jerk reaction that Goa Lokayukta’s orders are only recommendatory says it all. Stands exposed is the political immaturity of our accidental Chief Minister. That statement having been made by Pramod Sawant even before reading the Lokayukta’s order is very high-handed. It should come as no surprise if this government one day […]
NO TO VIP CULTURE
In our India which is the world’s biggest democracy there can be no room to foment any VIP culture. With those red beacons now long gone, it’s time to stop these crores being squandered on providing police security for Ministers, VIPS, and other politicians besides their kin. Politicians are supposed to serve the people. Those […]
IF EVEN THE CHIEF MINISTER BLATANTLY LIES, WHOM DO WE TRUST
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant needs to with folded hands truly apologize to the people of Goa for having falsely certified on 31st of August last year that our State was now officially Open Defecation Free (ODF). The very disgusting and appalling ground reality continues for all to see with people urinating and defecating out in the open anywhere and […]
STUDENT ACTIVISM IN GOA NEEDS TO BE REKINDLED
Student activism encompasses student involvement in issues dealing with economic, environmental, political and social change on and off the campus. Having been closely associated with the very vibrant student movements in Goa witnessed in the 70’s and 80’s, it is extremely anguishing and very disheartening that the student activism today is virtually nonexistent in the […]
RIBANDAR IS ALL DECKED UP FOR OUR FEAST TODAY
Today our Ribandar Church under the very able and dedicated stewardship of our Parish Priest Rev. Fr Antonio Lourenco Fernandes celebrates the Feast of Infant Jesus. And tomorrow the festivities will move on to our nearby Chapel at Fonduvem. For that occasion on Monday 20th January Ribandar will be hosting the 115th annual very long-established Tiatr opposite the […]
SORROWING LIES OUR GOA
The Goa Government is enveloped in administrative chaos with deep rooted rampant corruption, nepotism and sheer bad governance. It has been confusion, contradiction and controversies galore with an unending string of U Turns and reneged promises. The sheer impotence displayed by the Government on the very vital Mhadei issue is alarming. While the government has miserably failed on all […]