Jasper Dias on "DADAGERI OF GOA GOVERNMENT.

Jasper Dias on A. Veronica Fernandes' post ""DADAGERI" OF GOA GOVERNMENT.":

Dear Bab Veronica,

A very straight talking article in honest Goans view. How many Honest Goans are left now and if there are why are they silent??? You / Me and He cannot root the Corrupt out cause nearly everyone over there are Corrupt.

Children born now are of Corrupt Blood. Corruption is the core for survival. Blood does not recognize blood. Can the people force their respective MLA to resign when something is not of ethics? My foot why would they do it, what is in there for them?. Goa Govt has made a MOCKERY of SUPREME COURT RULING.

Where are all the Goans BLACK COATS Guys and Gals it is a wake up call for you'll too cause a day may come that GOA GOVT will be the COURT and JUDGE for all in where you will not be able to make money and I hope that occurs. You all survive because of the INDIAN PENAL CODE which can be TURNED AND TWISTED.

I am wondering where the opposition parties are sleeping????? Parikar how much did you get KICKBACK from TIMBLO?? I see that now you are after the CASINO ships, you forget that there is also a CASINO in Cidade de Goa??? I m sure CASINO ship OWNERS kickback did not reach your pocket and that is why you are BARKING NOW. Keep barking and divert peoples mind. It looks like our CHORS MLA ( Opposition as well as ruling party ) are all Hand in Gloves to RAPE Goa. Let the Ruling party do what they can but the Final Judgement will be FATAL for playing with people sentiment and no money power will be able to save them, they may even get the fate of INDIRA GANDHI and I hope they Get it. I earnestly pray they get it.

Goan brothers and sisters BIKARIS will come to your houses for begging, be careful cause you are the ones who elect them and once elected their attitude is " KAM ZALEM - VOIZ MELO". Where are the NGO's, where is Mrs A. VIEGAS, looks like there is no monetary gain here where as where Sara's issue is concerned it is there????.

Bab Veronica, keep going you are a true Goan Son who speaks the heart out and I Salute your GUTS cause few people are born like you. Don't ever Bow down to the cowards. God Bless You.

Thanks.

Jasper Dias.

GOA SWAYS - UNDER DAYLIGHT TRICKSTERS by Valmiki Faleiro.

GOA SWAYS … UNDER DAYLIGHT TRICKSTERS.



By Valmiki Faleiro.



Like the coconut trees that line her coast, Goa sways. Let me illustrate with a few instances. PWD Minister Churchill Alemao has all the money in the world to add three to the existing two road bridges across the Sal – some within two kms. of each other! But no money to repair pot-holed roads. His brother Joaquim, the Urban Development Minister, has millions to splurge on ‘high-tech’ road sweepers, compactors and in-vessel garbage treatment, none of which canwork in Goa. But not a few thousands to spare on new brooms, baskets and dustbins for the municipalities. Vishwajeet Rane, Health Minister, is a master at conceiving PPP (in theory, Public-Private Participation, in reality Public, for Private Profit) projects. He’s PPP-ing parts of the GMC and public health care. He has privatised public ambulance services, equipped with defibrillors, ventilators and oxygen – to carry patients to government hospitals that lack staff, beds and linen, forget life-saving medicines! Symptomatic of Goa’s governance. The flavour of the times is big – big budgets, bigtenders, big spending. Or big bucks, by way of underhand percentage commissions.



Nobody wants to waste time over spending small change on maintenance, like filling up potholes, buying brooms, or providing more hospital beds with clean linen. See how ministers, once inducted, squabble over departments with big budgets. They get to spend more and thereby pocket more. Don’t dare ask how they spend public money. So long as it is spent – and bigger the tranches, the better – it does their trick. Priorities are passé.



If you ask why dozens of private security guards have been hired at public hospitals when there is a pathetic shortage of medical, nursing and other staff, or if you ask why hundreds of crores are spent on building irrigation canals to areas where agriculture is long dead, your sanity will be doubted. There is no time for planning, for drawing priorities and spending wisely. Quite literally, no time, the money must be spent today, for tomorrow may never come. Governments may not survive until the morrow’s dawn. Midnight coups, unstable governments, and overall uncertainties heighten the urgency to spend as quickly as possible.



It is not as though the Health Minister can’t figure out that instead of spending a bomb outsourcing Goa’s public ambulance services to Hyderabad’s ‘Emergency Management and Research Institute’ (an affiliate, incidentally, of the now disgraced Ramalinga Raju’s Satyam group), he could have provided the same praiseworthy service departmentally ata fraction of the cost. It is also pointless asking that if the only job of ministers is to merely privatise public services and broker deals, then why need a government. We have reached well beyond that line of rationality.



A dozen mammoth SEZs in tiny Goa, half a dozen riverine casinos ‘trickishly’ termed ‘off-shore’ (with another half dozen waiting in the wings), dozens of biggie builders from metro India to ‘develop’ Goa… That is ‘development.’ That is governance. Governance reduced to brokering private deals. A government that has long since forgotten that its basic duty lies in the public domain, not selling government privileges and duties, left, right and centre. This is Goa. Thanks to us, Goemkars. You and I, who repeatedly vote and elect these honourables. To represent us and to spend our money.



It is not the ministers who need to learn. They know more than you and me. They know better than us what money power is all about. It is us, the people, who’re yet to learn the A, B, Cs…



PS: The EMRI dial-108 emergency ambulance service is supposed to have life-saving para medical staff on its 18 ambulances operating in Goa. 37-year old Sanjeev Aikar worked as driver of one of the ambulances. When waiting on duty at an ambulance post, poor Sanjeev suffered a heart attack. He died before he could be rushed to hospital. At least three other people died recently … in each case, the ambulance allegedly arrived hours late. (ENDS.)



The Valmiki Faleiro weekly column.

TODAY 16TH MARCH IS THE 19TH DEATH ANNIVERSARY OF NEVILLE D'SOUZA

NEVILLE D'SOUZA

Seen in the picture above is our Goan brother the late Neville D'Souza.

He was born in 1933 and sadly died on 16th March 1980 in Bombay out of heart attack.

Today being 16th March, I, A. Veronica Fernandes from Kuwait, on my behalf and on behalf of all my like minded friends, colleagues and football lovers remember him on his 19th death anniversary and pray to God to give his soul eternal rest in His Heavenly Kingdom. Neville D'Souza made us proud by being the best footballer among all Goans and Indians. After him we among Goans and Indians never produced another Neville and by the way will we ever produce another Neville D'Souza in future? I doubt, because such persons come into this world only once in centuries. May His Soul Rest In Peace.