The central and state government, between them, share 36% of the earnings on every litre of fuel sold.

Tiatrists are aggrieved as they do not have an auditorium to stage their shows- Gomant Vidya Niketan is under renovation while Ravindra Bhavan and Kala Academy will be hosting IFFI 2011.

Of the seven cases referred to the Central Bureau of Investigation by the state government, three involve Education Minister Babush Monserrate.

The CCP issued a closure order to Jovel Godinho’s washing centre, but failed to enforce it.

Migrants have no assurance in terms of access to healthcare. They forfeit their future with debts, a solution to their health problems — with the village quack, the private doctor or the public health system in the rural areas. These actions are those of medical refugees. Though this problem is not as acute in Goa, it does occur.

The Barcem-Quedem panchayat as rejected “Swami Rajneesh’s” application to put up babmboo huts, farmhouses, bathrooms, lavatories and bore wells.

GARBAGE! KACHRA! Cochro! You spot the word and you flip the page. The issue of garbage has become such a clichéd issue in Panaji that when people look into a newspaper and find a headline with the word ‘garbage’ in it, it’s either ignored or simply scanned through. It looks as though even the lay man has given up the idea of solving garbage issues in Panaji. Time and again, the government does seem to come up with solutions, but they seem to be short-lived.

ALL THE ‘great’ nations that have ‘progressed’ in the last 100 years have all been built on the annihilation of the original inhabitants and owners of the land. It appears as if India has aped the west, even to the extent of destroying the local people who were the guardians of the land and had preserved it for thousands of years.

Although the government is bent on going forward with the Mopa airport project, the locals are determined to get it shelved.

AMIDST concerns raised over the thriving prostitution racket that is functioning under the guise of numerous illegal massage parlours, specifically along the coastline in the state, government authorities have identified exactly a dozen spa/massage parlours of which, surprisingly, the authorities have chosen to inspect the premises of only four in the entire state.