noni

Do you think they will impliment this? Like all their other rules and regulations.

jcbrum

What the main complaint is, is that Foreign nationals are running Bars/Restaurants on a tourist visa and not on a business visa.So anyone running one legally should not have a problem..


John

noni

who runs what legally out there!!

Honey Bee

Quite honestly I don't think they know how to impliment "legally" unless it is with a cash donation.

See on the IM they say FN's pay less to the locals who work in the bars (think this is very biased view) as I personally know people who have worked the season in the shacks and in some of the indian run resturants- who have not been paid at all, (accept they have their food) there is a very large and popular resturant on the beach road, for the season paid indian staff 600 rupees after their uniform was taken out of their wages. :curse:

thatman

Just googled and found a newspaper article - one sentence is very interesting -

"Speaker Pratapsingh Rane suggested that the foreigners doing business locally be deported".

They are really going after us now not only property owners but business owners. He did not say anthing about visas or running them on touris visas just this sentence.

As far as paying them less goes I think they have that wrong although that was not in the article I read. I know one FN who runs a bar/restaurant who pays his staff very well - pays for them to go home at the end of the season and their return journey - pays for their living accommodation (which is very nice) and all buys them loads of things. I don't suppose he is the only one who treats his staff properly.

Jordie

There was a TV documentary couple of years back about a couple from here running an english pub in Goa. Are they still around? Whereabouts?

Cheers!

camelo

they still here and are doing well.

enfield951

Is that good old Trev ,with the Ponderosa Guest House ?
If that's the series you mean ,in it was shown in several parts, and I think that was at least 4 years ago.

old man

Good old Trevor, does not have a pub, he sits at the Teama Bar.
The Ponderosa has lost its licence as a guest house, and now only takes
"friends" not paying guests.

I think they are talking about the bar further up the road the Peacock! that the english couple had they left there and went opposite StoneHouse. I am led to believe that they have also given that up because of officialdom

thatman

We still have the videos - and now on disc - of the series of these people going out to Goa and taking bars and often see them out and about. JoeWhiley (of the Ponderosa) still wears the shorts she bought in Birmingham in the 70's and miserable bas**rd Trevor is still out and about as long faced as ever - we are amazed he is still there. The man who made the sausages whilst his cat was sat on the work surface and tried to smoke fish in his toilet eats in Kishor (next to Sportman bar near church in the middle of the road) some of them have died and others are divorced.

enfield951

We had a less than 1 minute spot ,in the first programme talking to Jo and Trevor about visas in the Goan Heritage Gardens.
I think the Peacock is now demolished,definitely finished as a pub anyway.

Honey Bee

They had started to demolish the bar when we were leaving, we can all guess who is going to build there!!!

also in to-day http://www.goanvoice.org.uk article relating to cancelling licences for foreigners to run bars/resturants. Hope it does not mean the end of the Bistro.

Blue_Max

I don't understand what they hope to gain by shutting down places that tourists find attractive.

Rest of India is encouraging foreign investment and business. And at a grand scale too! Tecso and Tata just signed a deal. Initially it will be wholesale operation with Tesco supplying thousands of retailers. But in a few years, I would'nt be surprised to at least one Tesco store in each and every town and city in India.

Honey Bee

Blue max - the Goans do things arse backwards, if there is a hard and awkward way to do it, they will find it.

They must spend all monsoon wondering how they can upset the tourist trade and loose their own people business. Possibly a case of rusty brains from the rain.