Chief Minister Pramod Sawant’s claim that the acquittal of Tarun Tejpal was being challenged because injustice was done to a lady is laughable. Since when has he become concerned about the plight of abused women? In May 2019 during the campaign for the Panaji Assembly by-election the Chief Minister had vociferously and publicly cautioned the […]
Month: June 2021
A POSSIBLE BARTER DEAL BETWEEN GOA CM & PANAJI MAYOR
Goa’s Chief Minister Pramod Sawant still struggling to speak in English and Panaji’s Mayor Rohit Monserrate unable to communicate in the language of the people, Konkani. What a huge handicap, in a democracy, which is all about good communication. In fact, the Chief Minister and the Mayor could help each other to overcome this language […]
SORROWING LIES OUR GOA
In a way we can’t blame Chief Minister Pramod Sawant for faltering and failing on every issue. Nothing was expected from him as Chief Minister. He accidentally landed on that Chair and to our misfortune it has been mishap after mishap in handling every issue faced by the State. One fails to comprehend as to […]
TARUN TEJPAL’S POLITICAL PERSECUTION THAT HAS BEEN A FINANCIAL NIGHTMARE FOR GOA’S TAXPAYERS
Courts of Law are a forum to Prosecute and never to Persecute. The Goa Government should come clean making public the total expenditure incurred so far on the Tarun Tejpal Case which has been on for almost eight years. With the trial at the Sessions Court, the case on various issues traveled to the High […]
ILLEGITIMATE POLITICAL MARRIAGES ARE A BIGGER CONCERN
Goa’s Law Minister Nilesh Cabral seems to be hell bent on submitting a white paper on his proposal of mandatory pre-marriage counseling. What a wasteful exercise it will be. It would however be interesting to know which brainless mooted this dumb and senseless idea. Having surfaced with this pointless suggestion, the originator must be from […]
RAJ BHAVANS CANNOT BE REDUCED TO BEING POLITICAL DENS
It is high time that the nation reflects on and debates the manner in which Governors are appointed and whether we need ornamental puppet Governors who needlessly burden the taxpayer. Constitutionally the Governor possesses executive, legislative, financial and judicial powers. The role of the Governor is very important and essential for the healthy functioning of […]
THE RTI ACT MUST BE BOOSTED
The Right to Information Act which came into force on October 12th 2005 was enacted to ensure transparency and accountability in governance. But the manner in which the government has been subtly subverting the RTI Act is a matter of concern. A well informed citizenry, transparency, and free flow of information are the very foundations of any successful democratic […]
NEED OF THE HOUR IS FAMILY COURTS AND NOT PRE-MARRIAGE COUNSELING
The Goa Government woke up suddenly to try and arrest the spiraling number of failing marriages by seeking to introduce mandatory pre-marriage counseling, an idea that has now been rightly binned. The ground reality is that Goa has sadly caught up with the national and global tendency on this malaise of divorces. Today Courts across […]
INSTEAD OF RIBANDAR THE AYUSH CENTER CAN BE AT MANIPAL HOSPITAL RUN BY GOA’S BABA RAMDEV
The Old Ribandar Hospital which is Asia’s first Medical school has a very glorious history. It was an excellent hospital and many of us were born there. The heritage structure was designed for it to house state of the art medical facilities which people from across Goa benefited. The Old Ribandar hospital was an allopathic […]
PANAJI MLA BABUSH MONSERRATE WILL HAVE TO PERFORM OR PERISH
We are now told that the Health Center at the Old Ribandar Hospital which was promised to be ready before these monsoons will be inaugurated on 15th August and we assume its 2021. On this longstanding demand we shall wait for these two months while trusting and hoping that what was promised will actually be […]