Francis has left a new comment on your post "JASPER ON "RIVER PRINCESS".":
Dear Veronica,
Bang Bang !!!!!
I call it Candolim Hiroshoma Bomb! I should thank Goa Kranti for the opportunities given to people to bring the misdeeds of our so called elected representatives to the world. Kranti is the only Goan forum which has the courage to open up the hidden treasures of most of the people so Kranti i say thank you for enlightning the World of never ever known facts of people around the globe. Your knowledge of past ( any subject ) is something no one has in this world among our Goa brethern .
Jasper I say bravo too you and say at least there is someone who can write the real facts of the real happenings in Candolim. I would 99% agree with Jasper's article. What he said are facts and they are true to my knowledge. Salgoankar's Bunglow within 200 mtrs from Sea level, who allowed him to build? The answer is our MLA. How much he got for that along with the delaying tactics of River Princess removal and where is all the money gone? In Offshore Properties and that is a very open talk in Candolim.
I am surprised Veronica that you are silent on the subject being a real native of Candolim and can I ask you why ??? Is your silence more stronger than your Pen for the Candolim Mafia's then so be it. Our village is taken over by the outsiders. Jasper has opened the Bottle and now the world is aware of the happeings in Candolim. Most of the youths are paid to harrass the opposition but when the time comes for payment there will be no saviour to save them. Time is running out for all the Mafias in Candolim / Calangute.
For the last decade Candolim has been robbed and now what is left are the Hills and the Fields. Fields are already with Saline water and the only virgin are the hills. They too will be robbed and by the time they eat the fruit of robbery their grave will pull them in and it is my earnest prayers that God should start punishing them now, " no slow death " as that is how he gives his punishment. MLA's children are already afflicted with incurable sickness and many things will follow. We have only one person who have Guts to fights the crooks and he is fighting them in his sweet time and he is none other than John Baptist "Joan Baptist" as he is known in Candolim / Calangute. Wake up Candolim Natives. Money is not everything in this world. Honesty is also powerful and so God's silent doses. Candolim people around the Globe and in Candolim village it is wake time now to bring back our village on the right track.
Men like Tomazinho Cardoso will never involve in this venture because he is not an "asli" Candoikar. He is a "baddeacho" Candoikar. He got no leadership qualities. He got chance to get elected once from Calangute constituency only because there was no suitable opposition in Candolim. And as a doll, he was given the portfolio of Speakership and he chewed that lolipol for 5 years. He has not done any extra ordinary job when he was MLA. He never supported Tiatrits cause nor Konkani cause and now shamelessly he is flirting with these two issues and those who got him there are also shameless. If he was genuine leader having leadership qualities he would have involved in village affairs for the good of Candolim. But by the way, who cares for him in his adopted village Candolim? People dont even hallow him now though they were polishing his shoes when he was Sabapoti. His contribution during his tenure in the Assembly was minus ZERO.
Viva Goa -Viva Candolim !!
Francis.
March 27, 2009
A. VERONICA REPLIES TO "CAN WE HELP?"
The harassment of maids in Kuwait is an unending agony. In the absence of proper laws to protect them they are unfortunately left to the mercy of their employers some of them are worst than wild beasts while many rightly are humane and kind. For the last so many years I have been writing on the illtreatment of maids in Kuwait, in the cyber world as well as in both the local dailies in Kuwait, namely Kuwait Times and Arab Times. There is lot of awakening done in Kuwait and it is very gratifying that many of the kind hearted local citizens are also raising their voices against this desease which creates a very bad image of Kuwait. A few years back after the liberation of Kuwait, after reading what I wrote on this topic, Time Magazine sent its orrespondent from Scotland to Kuwait to find out more on this subject. He met me and interviewed me for about 45 minutes at Hotel Sheraton where he was putting up. He personally went to Dasma Police Station, interviewed so many maids on Sunday near the Church to ascertain true facts.
When I came on the forefront to organise a movement in the former Portuguese colony Goa (India) in support of Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait, many people including Iraqi Muslim Arabs asked me "why you are supporting Kuwait when Kuwaitis are on record to maltreat your Goan maids like beating them, harassing them, molesting them, raping them and even maiming their bodies?" My answer to them was that though this maid harassment issue is condemnable and I strongly condemn it and tell others also to condemn it yet invasion of Kuwait by Iraq is wrong and as such it should be condemned and we must fight for the liberation of Kuwait from where we earned our sustenance and for which we are grateful.
Pastor Andy Thompson's write up is very interesting and I support him in his campaign against the menace of maid harassment in Kuwait. He in his write up said "the Nepali maid was five months pregnant". This statement is horrible and chilling marrow in my bones. Who made the poor and helpless Nepali maid pregnant? There is no investigation and punishment for the guilty person? Was it her employer? There is no justice for this unjust act? After landing in Nepal, this poor girl will deliver the baby and whose care of she will give as the father of the child? It is disgraceful to face such a crime and perpetrator of this crime must be punished.
After the liberation of Kuwait, the cresendo of maid harassment in Kuwait reached to such height that when its news spread worldwide, one American Senator challenged everyone saying "if this maid harassment does not come to an end, I will come to Kuwait in a charterted plane, pick up all the harassed maids housed in the Safe Houses of their embassies and take them back to their countries". This turned out to be a stern warning to Kuwait.
I always symphatised with their plight. About 15 years back along with Fr. Gabriel Dias one of the Carmelite Priests of Kuwait Catholic Church, formed an organisation with the backing of the then Bishop of Kuwait and also with the silent nod of Indian Embassy, to help the suffering maids coming from Konkani speaking areas. We organised functions and collected funds to help the suffering maids in Kuwaiti Houses and those taking shelter in Indian Embassy Safe House. With the help of our funds we repatriated innumerable maids back to India of course with the total and legal assistance from the Indian Embassy. After Fr. Gabriel left from Kuwait, our movement slowed down a bit though other members of our organisation tried their best to keep going our charitable work but when Indian Embassy closed the Safe House, our work came to an abrupt halt.
As Pastor Andy Thompson said such work is not for faint hearted persons. To do such work you require guts to face the might of mighty and naughty and one must be prepared to face any eventuality even to leave Kuwait. I was ready for such an eventuality then as I am now because fighting for justice is like my religious duty. Because of this attitude I fought so much for the cause of Kuwait and made others also including the Government of India to fight for getting justice to Kuwait.
When injsutice is done to others we cannot remain as silent spectators. Fighting for justice should be our duty and in this context I cite a beautiful statement of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). When Prophet was asked when there will bejustice in this world, came the reply within a split of a second "when everyone of us will gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us only, then only there will be justice in this world".
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
CAN YOU HELP?
By Rev Andy Thompson.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church,
Ahmadi – Kuwait.
“CAN YOU HELP?” is a question lot of people ask when they hear the news of another unfortunate soul who has slipped between the cracks of society. Here is a story of what happened when some friends of mine did try to help. They reached out to a Nepali lady who was injured after jumping out of a third floor window in order to escape from her abusive employers.
This maid had surgery on her pelvis and spine, was five months pregnant and to add insult to injury was serving a sentence in deportation jail on an absconding charge. (Why they don’t arrest the abusive employers?)The authorities finally agreed to let my friends buy an airline ticket to allow her to go home. But when it came to processing the paperwork, the officials claimed to have lost the Nepali girl’s passport (it was found in the same drawer where it was originally deposited). Finally on the day that the ticket would have expired, out of desperation, the friends turned up the jail ready to take her themselves to the airport.
The deportation staff reluctantly escorted the Nepali maid to the airport, and made sure that their annoyance was expressed by denying the poor girl use of a wheel chair and insisted that she walked the whole way through the airport and immigration in order to punish her. The abuse of this girl continued right up to the moment she boarded the plane.She was the lucky one! She got out. Others receiving help are still stuck at the deportation centre. Tickets have been bought to allow them to go home but they have expired because someone, somewhere will not process their paperwork. Hundreds of Dinars from those who wish to help have been wasted. Prisoners are losing their minds because they have been stranded in the deportation centre for months. The tragedy is that often their tickets people who have shown acts of charity – but bureaucratic apathy has reduced their efforts of kindness to naught. The tickets expire and dreams of going home are reduced to despair.
Please note, we are not talking about convicted criminals here. We are talking about people who chose to leave their employers under dire circumstances and who want to home.Can you help? Of course you can. But you need to be committed to see it through. Helping people in Kuwait is not for the faint hearted, but there will be reward and God sees what we do. “The King will reply ‘Whatever you did for the least of these’, you did for me”. (Mathew 25:40).
Posted by KRANTI at Thursday, March 26, 2009.
When I came on the forefront to organise a movement in the former Portuguese colony Goa (India) in support of Kuwait during the invasion of Kuwait, many people including Iraqi Muslim Arabs asked me "why you are supporting Kuwait when Kuwaitis are on record to maltreat your Goan maids like beating them, harassing them, molesting them, raping them and even maiming their bodies?" My answer to them was that though this maid harassment issue is condemnable and I strongly condemn it and tell others also to condemn it yet invasion of Kuwait by Iraq is wrong and as such it should be condemned and we must fight for the liberation of Kuwait from where we earned our sustenance and for which we are grateful.
Pastor Andy Thompson's write up is very interesting and I support him in his campaign against the menace of maid harassment in Kuwait. He in his write up said "the Nepali maid was five months pregnant". This statement is horrible and chilling marrow in my bones. Who made the poor and helpless Nepali maid pregnant? There is no investigation and punishment for the guilty person? Was it her employer? There is no justice for this unjust act? After landing in Nepal, this poor girl will deliver the baby and whose care of she will give as the father of the child? It is disgraceful to face such a crime and perpetrator of this crime must be punished.
That the deportation staff at Kuwait International Airport denied the facility of a Wheel Chair to the deportee Nepali maid is yet another cruelty this society made her to suffer. Was there no compassion in the heart of that deportation staff? Why such an inhuman treatment to a poor woman even during her last jouney to her country? I only pray to God to change the minds and hearts of the cruel people who treat poor expatriate maids badly.
After the liberation of Kuwait, the cresendo of maid harassment in Kuwait reached to such height that when its news spread worldwide, one American Senator challenged everyone saying "if this maid harassment does not come to an end, I will come to Kuwait in a charterted plane, pick up all the harassed maids housed in the Safe Houses of their embassies and take them back to their countries". This turned out to be a stern warning to Kuwait.
I always symphatised with their plight. About 15 years back along with Fr. Gabriel Dias one of the Carmelite Priests of Kuwait Catholic Church, formed an organisation with the backing of the then Bishop of Kuwait and also with the silent nod of Indian Embassy, to help the suffering maids coming from Konkani speaking areas. We organised functions and collected funds to help the suffering maids in Kuwaiti Houses and those taking shelter in Indian Embassy Safe House. With the help of our funds we repatriated innumerable maids back to India of course with the total and legal assistance from the Indian Embassy. After Fr. Gabriel left from Kuwait, our movement slowed down a bit though other members of our organisation tried their best to keep going our charitable work but when Indian Embassy closed the Safe House, our work came to an abrupt halt.
As Pastor Andy Thompson said such work is not for faint hearted persons. To do such work you require guts to face the might of mighty and naughty and one must be prepared to face any eventuality even to leave Kuwait. I was ready for such an eventuality then as I am now because fighting for justice is like my religious duty. Because of this attitude I fought so much for the cause of Kuwait and made others also including the Government of India to fight for getting justice to Kuwait.
When injsutice is done to others we cannot remain as silent spectators. Fighting for justice should be our duty and in this context I cite a beautiful statement of Prophet Mohammed (PBUH). When Prophet was asked when there will bejustice in this world, came the reply within a split of a second "when everyone of us will gather courage to fight against the injustice committed on to others as if that injustice is committed on to us only, then only there will be justice in this world".
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
CAN YOU HELP?
By Rev Andy Thompson.
St. Paul’s Anglican Church,
Ahmadi – Kuwait.
“CAN YOU HELP?” is a question lot of people ask when they hear the news of another unfortunate soul who has slipped between the cracks of society. Here is a story of what happened when some friends of mine did try to help. They reached out to a Nepali lady who was injured after jumping out of a third floor window in order to escape from her abusive employers.
This maid had surgery on her pelvis and spine, was five months pregnant and to add insult to injury was serving a sentence in deportation jail on an absconding charge. (Why they don’t arrest the abusive employers?)The authorities finally agreed to let my friends buy an airline ticket to allow her to go home. But when it came to processing the paperwork, the officials claimed to have lost the Nepali girl’s passport (it was found in the same drawer where it was originally deposited). Finally on the day that the ticket would have expired, out of desperation, the friends turned up the jail ready to take her themselves to the airport.
The deportation staff reluctantly escorted the Nepali maid to the airport, and made sure that their annoyance was expressed by denying the poor girl use of a wheel chair and insisted that she walked the whole way through the airport and immigration in order to punish her. The abuse of this girl continued right up to the moment she boarded the plane.She was the lucky one! She got out. Others receiving help are still stuck at the deportation centre. Tickets have been bought to allow them to go home but they have expired because someone, somewhere will not process their paperwork. Hundreds of Dinars from those who wish to help have been wasted. Prisoners are losing their minds because they have been stranded in the deportation centre for months. The tragedy is that often their tickets people who have shown acts of charity – but bureaucratic apathy has reduced their efforts of kindness to naught. The tickets expire and dreams of going home are reduced to despair.
Please note, we are not talking about convicted criminals here. We are talking about people who chose to leave their employers under dire circumstances and who want to home.Can you help? Of course you can. But you need to be committed to see it through. Helping people in Kuwait is not for the faint hearted, but there will be reward and God sees what we do. “The King will reply ‘Whatever you did for the least of these’, you did for me”. (Mathew 25:40).
Posted by KRANTI at Thursday, March 26, 2009.
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