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In todays Daily Express there is an article about how people are being fined for not sorting their rubbish correctly for recycling or overfilling their bin or even putting it out too early and are actually being fined more than they would be for shoplifting. This is crackers. Put something in the wrong colour refuse sack get fined £700, go and steal from a shop, get fined £80.

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Surprise, Surprise

Pacheco may have got fake medical certificates:

from www.goanvoice.org.uk

Nadia was styling herself as Pacheco’s wife’
5 Jul: IANS. After calling 28-year-old Nadia Torrado, Mickky Pacheco’s “family friend” his counsel Monday said that she had been “advertising herself as Pacheco’s wife”. Advocate Surendra Desai also said that Nadia could have consumed the rat poison after reading an advertisement (photo) for a local theatre performance in a local newspaper in which Viola Fernandes, was named as wife of Pacheco (chief guest for the theatre performance).

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Woman tourist, cabbie fight over fare
7 Jul: Times of India. An altercation between an American woman visitor and the taxi driver who ferried her from Panaji to Palolem over the fare on Tuesday evening, reached the local police station after a quarrel over the fare ended up in fisticuffs... During the journey the American had wanted to use a toilet but the one the driver took her to was dirty and this was the start of the verbal duel... She is alleged to have slapped him whilst she claims he pulled her by her hair ...

Prosecutor: “Nadia had moved in with Mickky”
7 Jul: Times of India. Public prosecutor Sarojini Sardinha has questioned the medical reports of Mickky Pacheco’s condition, claiming that the blood pressure readings have been altered ... She told the court of the claim that in August 2004 Nadia had moved in to stay with Mickky while Viola was in the hospital after delivering his child

Mickky’s supporters kept away from court
7 Jul: Herald. In a move that attracted flak from the crowd, the Goa police on Tuesday stopped supporters of Mickky Pacheco from coming to the Sessions Court at yesterday’s hearing on Pacheco’s bail application

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Russian firm pleads against property confiscation order

10 Jul: Times of India. True Axis Resort Pvt Ltd, a Russian firm in Goa owned by Leonid Beyzer and others has appealed to the appellate tribunal for foreign exchange, ministry of law, justice and company affairs, New Delhi, against the enforcement directorate's (ED) order confiscating its property in Goa. At the same time, ED officials said they have already identified four other properties acquired by foreign nationals violating norms


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Lucky Farmhouse: Goa Police seek to send team to Sweden
10 Jul: Times of India. The police have moved a proposal to the state home department to initiate the process of issuing letter rogatory so that Lucky Farmhouse's statement can be recorded. Sources said Farmhouse has failed to appear before the police even after being asked to do so more than six times. Letter rogatory is a formal written request for a witness who resides outside its jurisdiction be examined ... The police have also moved a proposal to send a team to Sweden to record Farmhouse's statement


Sack Home Minister Ravi Naik” BJP tells Governor
9 Jul: Goa 365. Bharatiya Janata Party legislature wing met Goa Governor and demanded that the probe into drug nexus be handed over to the Central Bureau of Investigation. It has also demanded to sack home minister for his lack of effective functioning as also for the alleged involvement of his son with the drug mafia.

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BREAKING NEWS re RIVER PRINCESS

Just back from a stroll along Candolim Beach (actually from lunch at Sunny Side Up) and guess what? Part of the seafacing side of the River Princess has collapsed - either inwards, or outwards into the sea, and a part of the deck is sloping downwards towards this huge gap.

Met a photographer from the Times of India who was busily snapping away - TOI had just been informed by locals of this development - so check out your newspapers tomorrow or Monday. This must have happened in the past 24 hours, as I was down on the beach earlier in the week did not notice this.

& for all of you back in Blighty, it's very sunny here today.!!:thumbup:

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Not really surprising given the holes that had been cut in it.

...and for those of you in Goa, it's very sunny today here in Blighty <g>

AndyD 8-)#

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and hot!

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Times of India -OLE SPAIN REIGNS - wonders if this is weather report :eek:

must be serious stuff Navhind lead with the same - i blame global warming !

and at last some sense UK to cut aid to India - think perhaps it should now be reversed :thumbsup:

grey old day here today, very warm but overcast.

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Largest Circulated English Daily of Goa - Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Wake up, Goa

Jayne Bellingham, Calangute

The news item “UK may cut foreign aid to ‘rich’ India” (Herald, 12 July) suggests that NRIs living in the UK could contribute more to their own country. Mr Laxmi Mittal is one of the UK’s wealthiest men and owns the most expensive house. Billionaire Vijay Mallya runs his Force India team from a base in UK too. Many other famous businessmen prefer to operate from the UK, but stash their cash in Switzerland.

Some weeks ago, it was reported that educational aid sent by the UK had been unwisely distributed, being spent on cars and other luxuries by persons in authority. But did you know that all UK government pensioners have received no increase in their pensions this year, nor have people with works pensions, owing to recession? Prices for everyday commodities have risen beyond the means of retired people, as well as underpaid workers.

So I beg the question of all Indians, why, when you take British taxpayers money in the form of government aid, do you treat us with such contempt? Why do you change the visa rules and make us leave for two months before returning? The reasons we hear in Goa are that you do not want us moving around the country and re-entering at will.

David Headley was a Pakistani-American who changed his name only months before he came to India. He did not fill in his visa form correctly and excluded pertinent facts that the Indian Consulate failed to detect.

There has been an exodus of expats leaving Goa. Many more will follow. Your fast waning glory of a beautiful Goa has been sullied by high crime rates and deaths, corruption at all levels, garbage problems, all of which have never been dealt with during the past eight years I have lived here.

The writing is on the wall for Goa, the internet and the media across the world is watching you and how you tackle this situation. The common man must speak up. Be brave. Have your say before it is too late, and fishing is the only thing left to make your livelihood.

http://oheraldo.in/newscategory/Letters/13

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http://oheraldo.in/news/Main%20Page%...jim/38791.html

So, by my estimation, PERMANENTLY PARKED vehicles in Panjim increase by 3,720 a day, more than 25,000 a week! No wonder the city is becoming choked with vehicles...........


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Excellent letter from Jayne Bellingham - I hope she's a member of British Expats. However, this sort of letter is going to get "lost" and overlooked in a provincial paper like the Herald. It should be sent to the Times of India & other large city newspapers. Perhaps also to British newspapers. There has to come a time when reciprocity is required, and the Indians are too good at "taking", but not "giving" in return.:thumbdown:

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On a positive note this article has selected out billionaire families who actually do give to charity, including in the UK, for example the Mallya family £15m to Great Ormond Street hospital (its largest ever donation), Mittal to the 2012 olympics. (sending this article to other newspapers it might be wise to leave these two names out!!).

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Yes Bpat, it is clear that billionaire companies, I wont say families do contribute charity to the UK. That is very usual, any multinational company operating in any country will donate some money . The money they donate enhances their profile. Aid is different it comes from the pockets of tax payers. Most UK citizens are happy to pay their taxes towards foreign aid, more precisely aid in India. This includes most I think on this forum. However, people are not and indeed should not be prepared to simply pay their taxes so that corrupt officials can put it in their pockets and as usual deprive the poor. Today in the news here in India it was reported that 8 states alone in India were more poor than the whole of Africa.

I would hope that Goans/ Indians how ever they might perceive themselves start saying no to corruption. Corruption is a major problem here for everyone. It makes everyone poorer morally and finacially. I would suggest Bpat you look at your own wonderful country and think not about a handful of ex pats in Goa but at how you can you can enhance your country and get rid of the corruption which is killing it. Why are there soo many less women than men, why dowry deaths.

I dont want a penny of my tax to support corruption or corrupt ideas

A bit hard hitting , perhaps , I love this country too.

ruskin

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Ruskin you have completely misunderstood my post. I support the letter I just suggested not using those two particular names. I am British my husband is Indian we pay taxes in the UK, we also have a home in India as you do.
Regarding the £15 million donation to Great Ormond Street you may belittle it but those such as ourselves with a grandchild who had open heart surgery in infancy (and given a normal life) for such money we give profound and grateful thanks.
As for corruption, ordinary Indians can only try but when it is from above downwards, ie from government there is not a great deal they can do. My husband's community has no dowry tradition, girl babies are equally, indeed very much, welcomed and equally educated. What do you suggest that we should do?

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To change things in the UK is hard enough,look at all the MP's who cheated on their expenses and are still in Parliament, to change things in a huge country like India where many people are uneducated must be nigh on impossible. It is not so long ago that women were treated as second class citizens in the UK. In my first job (for an insurance company) I was refused the opportunity to study for the institute exams because I am female, that can not happen now, and despite the equal pay laws women are still being paid less than men for work of equal value. Only when all Indians are educated will change happen, as it is happening slowly in the UK.