The political interference in the working of the Goa Police has reached its very hilt. During this carnival it has been all so very blatant. We have seen how permissions were being given or rejected on political diktats. The rule of law went for a toss when the police failed to use a uniform yardstick. […]
Month: February 2023
RODOLFO FERNANDES’S TALE FROM RAGS TO RICHES
After repeated failed attempts, Rodolfo Fernandes last March managed to become MLA of Santa Cruz as he had contested on a Congress ticket. However, his ulterior motives soon led him to betray his voters and defect to the BJP. Even a week before defection he vowed to remain loyal to his party as he claimed […]
RSS REMOTE CONTROLLING AND RULING GOA
Goa is run by a proxy government with major decision making and slogan crafting like Atmanirbhar and Swayampurna entrusted to dozens of advisors from RSS its stranglehold organizations in education, culture, science, technology, cooperative sector etc and the divisive mission is now total. Three RSS appointed persons minutely screen all the nominations and appointments to all […]
PANAJI MLA AND MAYOR SABOTAGE PEOPLE’S CARNIVAL
The residents of Sao Tome Ward behind the Panaji Post office had taken a very laudable initiative this year to have a Carnaval do Povo (People’s Carnival). It would have brought back memories of the traditional Carnival of yester years. But the Panaji MLA Babush Monserrate and his son Mayor Rohit Monserrate with vested interests […]
PANAJI IN A STATE OF DESPAIR
The entire city of Panaji which includes our Ribandar is in an absolute mess. The roads have been recklessly and haphazardly dug with inadequate safety precautions, and no planning and contingency plan in place for the delays in restoring the roads to normality. Regrettably, the roads in such poor state and desperately needing repair have […]
INDEPENDENCE OF JUDICIARY MUST NEVER BE COMPROMISED
The BJP’s way to tempt Judges to toe the Government line while compromising on the much needed Independence of the Judiciary is borne out in their indecent move to appoint retired Justice S. Abdul Nazeer as a Governor just a month after retirement as Judge of the Supreme Court. It is in utter bad taste […]
FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS OUR FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT
Our nation today is in a state of undeclared Emergency under a regime that is intolerant to any critics and criticism. In any democracy, supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly, where the rule of law and freedom of speech is paramount. It is very worrying that in […]
TOURISM IN GOA A SUPER JUMBLE
The Government over the last many years has been needlessly squandering crores of rupees on organizing road shows across the world and within the country to promote Goa as a Tourist destination. It has been a misconceived waste of public funds and a free junket for the Tourism Minister and his entourage only further burdening […]
BJP LEADERS’S ILLEGAL BUNGALOW AT OLD GOA HAS GOVERNMENT’S BLESSINGS
As predicted, the illegal and fraudulently built bungalow owned by the family of BJP national spokesperson Shaina NC which has come up within the heritage precincts at Old Goa due to lack of diligence by the authorities has now got a legal reprieve. The High Court order quashing that demolition notice issued by the Archaeological […]
PANAJI HEADING FOR A TRAGEDY
With Panaji’s Patto Plaza already witnessing incessant and perennial flooding, the government needed 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 environmentally incompatible new constructions all over without the much needed […]