noni

Totally agree with you Dread! looks like it is right.

Heidigirl

I am enraged !!!!!!!!!!

noni

113 foreigners held for overstaying in Goa

7 Apr. Economic Times. More than 100 foreigners, including 25 Russians and 22 Nigerians, were arrested in Goa for overstaying over the past three years. Those arrested were living in rented houses and guest houses in coastal areas like Anjuna, Calangute and Pernem

"Govt is of the smugglers" ]
7 Apr. Herald. Babush Monserrate was traveling to Dubai on the intervening night of Friday when he was detained at Mumbai airport for possessing unaccounted foreign currency much more than the permitted limit. Opposition leader, Manohar Parrikar has charged :“This government is by the smugglers, for the smugglers and of the smugglers.”

www.goanvoice.org.uk

rdenero

I wonder if he was off to buy a Pilots Licence for 1 of his children?

I have been informed that it takes a great deal of skill to land an Airbus on its front wheel....Indian Pilots (sic) are the most successful at this maneuver.

I post this info as i am flying back to the U.K. tonight, and just feeling a little trepidation

Be back in 3 months time hopefully.

noni

Make sure his/her licence is genuine and also breathalyze them. Safe journey.

TrueManc

Sonia Ghandi. Does she hold a PIO card? Person of Italian Origin?

noni

This is truly disgusting

Police 'hid' abuse of 60 girls by Asian takeaway workers linked to murder of 14-year-old


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz1ItajLjuJ

poppetjay

Unbeleivable ... what is the matter with our country.... :thumbd own:tax payers money again this government is to fond of giving other people's hard earned money away

noni

Avoid a holiday from hell

7 Apr. Deccan Chronicle. Travel surveys have time and again revealed that Goa is the favoured holiday destination among teens...Goa has been in the news lately for several unsavoury incidents involving tourists...travel in a large group and only with friends you know very well

www.goanvoice.org.uk

willb

OMG. Not good news for Goa this. We lived in the South (Benaulim Area) Not many "Young" ones there though. So this must be aimed for the North i would think.

dreadsoc

And while crime is on the increase the government are reducing the number of police officers !!!!! Every force in the country is asking coppers to take voluntary redundancy..... and if the new proposals for rubbish pay and conditions goes ahead, there will be a further exodus of police officers......
Hardly any wonder that crimes are going undetected !

Dread - x

noni

240 people granted arms licences in Goa 9 Apr: Asian Age. As many as 240 people, including top politicians, policemen, mine owners and businessmen, have been granted arms licences in Goa over the last three years ... The list includes the Tourism Minister and the general managers of the Taj Holiday village and Fort Aguada beach resort ... 273 words.


Video: Customs grills Goa Minister, registers case 9 Apr: CNN-IBN. Goa's controversial Education Minister, Atanasio Babush Monserrate, was questioned for over six hours by the Customs Department in Mumbai on Saturday. After Monserrate failed to explain why he was carrying about Rs 25 lakh worth unaccounted cash, a case was registered against him under the Customs and the Foreign Exchange Management Act.

www.goanvoice.org.uk

noni

Goa sees all-time high of 820 charter flights 10 Apr:

Navhind Times. All the past records as regards to arrival of foreign tourists in the state have been broken in the ongoing tourist season, which saw around 820 charter flights as against 626 in the previous year, an all-time high, arriving in the state with nearly 161,000 tourists till April 8. According to information provided by the director of Tourism over 410,000 foreign tourists came to Goa ... There were 402 Russian charter flights and 224 from UK... http://www.navhindtimes.in/goa-news/...harter-flights

kernowpisky

Something doesnt quite add up here, i think in the same paper it was quoting shack owners "down south" complaining season has come to an end early, not the number of tourists visiting, spending money, visa probs etc, then we have this report saying flights, so presumably tourist numbers are up (or does it mean a lot of half empty planes arrived) and then in the paper a few weeks ago it listed tourists from different countries who visit Goa per annum, and by several thousand brits were top with Russia trailing behind considerably. The article quoted you would think suggests otherwise.

I think someone has got their maths wrong and is tweaking figures to suit their needs

noni

Of course, figures are being tweaked, a blind man could see that the numbers or tourists were down this season. Just look at the empty roads, and restaurants.