Thank you Mr LopesDetails
Thank you mr Lopes
letters to the editor
Thank you mr Lopes
letters to the editor
06 Aug,
2015, 02:04AM IST
Thank you
Mr Lopes
I would like to thank Mr
Lopes and his team FORCE who have really suffered for the brighter future of
our children.
I remember the year
2011 my son was promoted to the Std 1. We like many other parents
were under a lot of stress for being helpless in giving good education to
my son in a language accepted globally and a big relieve came by way of
FORCE formation.
Mr Lopes and his team along
with PTAs of various schools were involved with protests in Margao. The then
CM’s resident I remember attending every meeting along with the late Mr Alwyn
who too was instrumental in getting us motivated and inspiring us to attend the
meetings under our school PTA banner.
It was this FORCE
that pressurized the Kamat government to take a cabinet decisión to favour the
parents choice. The new government only carried forward this decisión but did
not turn it into a Bill.
The year 2015 my son is on
the vergé of leaving the primary school and going to the secondary as many of
the other parents children are but we made it a point to attend the chain
hunger strike and also met the local MLA and were on the road like the others
for our future generations. Our task is not over. We will not rest till the
passing of the Bill in the winter session.
We wish you a speedy health
recovery Mr Lopes and we wish you and your team support us till the passing of
the Bill and promise the same support to your FORCE.
Melanie Alvares, Sangolda
Open letter to
Chief Minister
Dear Mr Chief Minister,
The recent assembly proceedings brought to us that according to
you, the questions raised by the opposition regarding the illegal and immoral
Golf Course project in Tiracol and Casinos in Mandovi are attempts by a few to
settle personal scores with yourself.
You are not wrong because every political leader who is entrusted
with power by citizens and who cheats them by discarding his party's election
time promises and comes in support of a hidden ulterior agenda is bound to feel
the same way.
You were not our choice as Chief Minister, but imposed upon us
when your predecessor was called to a greener pasture. Of late you have made a
laughing stock of the chair of Chief Minister by passing immature remarks over
various issues. On the top of it, you have audacity to call upon your party
cadre to be prepared for victory in next, next to it and further next
elections.
Shame on us, the people Goa who are tolerating your antics up to
now, for the last nail in your party's coffin in Goa was hammered the moment
Dominic de Tiracol breathed his last.
Today, hundreds of people are flocking our musical protests from
Tiracol to Margao to take back the message that real power comes to them when
their will and not that of a cartel of land sharks and corrupt politicians is
implemented on earth.
Your fall is imminent, and will be a warning alarm to your
successors that Goa belongs to the citizens of Goa as a heirloom to protect,
and not to them as a luxury to enjoy.
Sudeep Dalvi, Convener, "Save Tiracol Save Goa"
Slap on the face
The National Green Tribunal (NGT) has imposed a fine of Rs
five lakh on Leading Hotels for illegal felling of trees at Tiracol. This
is a big victory for Goa Foundation and the people of Tiracol and also a big
slap on the face of Leading Hotels and also on the CEO of this project – the CM
of Goa!
Matias Lobo, Oman
Shelter for
commuters
I was waiting for the bus going to Bangalore
in Margao, behind the KTC bus stand. The buses usually pick up
their passengers at this spot.
The bus was supposed to come from Panjim after collecting
some passengers. I came by a hired vehicle. It was raining heavily. My
reporting time was 7 pm. I reached in time, but couldn't see my bus. I
called the agent and enquired, he told me that the bus was on its way to
Margao. I could not come out of the vehicle, as it was pouring heavily.
There is no shelter around, where one can stay and wait for the
bus.
Thus I had to wait in my hired vehicle, and pay double the charge
as the bus came an hour late. It is my humble request to the concerned
authority to look into the matter and build a shelter for the commuters on an
urgent basis.
Veena / Vandana Fernandes, Cansaulim
Do not abandon
Goa
Goa previously was a paradise with complete communal harmony
between Catholic and Hindus, with the arrival of Konkan Railway Goa, the
smallest state in India suddenly got engulfed by most of the people from
outside Goa who took over all our jobs especially in the Government department
therefore most of the Catholics started looking for jobs onboard Cruise vessels
/ Bombay and Gulf.
Now with Portuguese passport and with most of the Catholic
migrating to Europe the balance has been disturbed furthermore as the Catholics
do not have the majority to counter the growing RSS / BJP clout in Goa this was
amply evident when the Catholic Deputy Chief Minister Francis D’Souza was
overlooked for the role of Chief Minister when Manohar Parrikar left for Delhi
to be the Defence Minister.
Kudos to Jose Maria Miranda for his letter in Herald August 4,
2015 for pointing out the fact that the likes of Vishnu Wagh is all set
to make more dents in the harmonious relations between Catholics and the
Hindus. I would also like to appeal to the Catholics not to abandon Goa for
fresher pastures aboard i.e Europe where you lose all your rights as Goans
because you will then have no identity in Goa or aboard. Stop migrating and get
involved in making a future for yourself and your children in Goa itself which
has lots to offers provided you all are willing to work hard.
Please get more involved in joining politics and police force of
Goa to maintain the balance and peaceful Co-existence.
Anthony Rodrigues, e-mail
