Dear Mr. Veronica,
While wishing you a happy retired life from Kuwait, I strongly feel your leaving Kuwait for good will create a deep vacuum in the community and nobody in Kuwait even in the future will fill this void. Your coming to Kuwait in 1975 at an early age with full of knowledge, zeal, vigour, wisdom and love for Goa and Goan causes was a big blessing for Kuwait Goans in particular and Indians and Kuwaitis too. What movements and deeds you did so successfully nobody among Goans and Indians could do and not even imagine. All these movements came into being only because of you.
Before you came to Kuwait and even after you there were gigantic Goan personalities with mighty financial and professional power with vast influence at their disposal but none could step in where you put both your legs fully. Your plus point in your success was your sincerity, faithfulness, truthfulness and total dedication to the causes you fought for.
You had unique distinction among Goans especially the Goan figures to remain above any suspicion as you remained without Sex, drinks, gambling and loot of public funds scandal. You have never misappropriated any funds nor took any commission for the social work you did. You worked purely for the social causes without making money for you out of your public activities. Nobody can point his finger with evidence that you have goofed anywhere. You were immaculate in all your dealings in public life. You had God's blessings to do good work.
You were a great orator and people always loved your public speeches which gave lot of informations and messages, like you nobody does in Kuwait, Kuwaitkars will miss this.
In your writings you are number One and there is nobody in Kuwait among Goans who can come closer to you. In your writings there is not only boldness but lot of matter, very few in the world can write in such a manner. Though you were very hard in your writings against perpetrators of injustice yet you never wrote ill of innocent people, on the contrary you supported the weak and innocent.
The farewells that were accorded to you is like peanuts compared to your mighty work you did in the service of Goans from Kuwait.
I dont think there will be another A. Veronica in our midst. May God Bless you with good health and peace of mind to work for Goan causes from Goa. Man of your calibre is required now in Goa.. Hope you will do something more in Goa.
ADEUS NIZ GOYKARA -- ADEUS TUKAM DOLLEANIM BHORUN DHUKAM.
Frenncisco M. Fernandes.
