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Goemkarponn desk MARGAO: All Goa Bar & Restaurant Owners Association has made an appeal to Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant to allow them to open following COVID19 SOPs. The association has also demanded tax relief during the lockdown period. “We, the bar and restaurant owners, are badly affected by lockdown last year and now the curfew. Our businesses have come to a standstill, without any relief. Ours is the only business owned by 90% of Goans. Businessmen are desperate and are ready to rent out and even sell their ancestral business to anyone,” said president Michael Carrasco He said the…

Goemkarponn desk Porvorim: The dream of playing football for the national clubs have come closer for the young talent of Porvorim with the commissioning of Salvador do Mundo multipurpose ground at the hands of MLA Rohan Khaunte. The state-of-the-art ground with multipurpose facility has been constructed with the support of FC Goa and Sporting Club de Porvorim. The facility was inaugurated in the presence of Khaunte, FG Goa’s CEO and Co-owner Akshay Tandon, national football player Glen Martins and Salvador do Mundo Sarpanch Sandip Salgaonkar. Khaunte said that the ground would help the sports talent from Porvorim to achieve their…

Goemkarponn Desk PANAJI: Chief Minister Dr Pramod Sawant today directed the Collector North to prepare a detail plan to rehabilitate Goan fruit vendors and stalls. Sawant said that he has instructed the North Goa collector to take the GMC authorities, MLAs, Panchayat members etc into confidence and relocate the vendors to a place where there will be no disturbance for ambulance and other traffic. “Some stalls have been rented out to people from outside Goa, that should not be allowed,” he added. CM however claimed that the stall owners were warned about the demolition time and again. Claiming that 70…

Porvorim: Ahead of the no-confidence motion tomorrow, Sarpanch Sandeep Salgaonkar and Deputy Reena Fernandes of Salvador do Mundo panchayat tendered their resignation from the post. Both submitted their resignation to Director of Panchayat Siddhi Halarnkar, scuttling the no confidence motion. Talking to reporters after tendering the resignation, Salgaonkar said that he was planning to quit the post, later during this month on the occasion of his birthday, handing it over to his colleague Hemant Borkar. He said that the no confidence motion moved by five members against him was without any specific reason. “Some of my well-wishers suggested that I…

Goemkarponn desk PANAJI: From July to September Goa will witness the plunder and sale of ‘Roen Alami’, cultivated for 120 million years strictly by fungus growing and mound or ‘Roen’ building termites, the seasonal and overexploited wild edible mushrooms, which are being plucked from pristine areas and sold on the roadside and these will appear in major markets at a premium price. These wild species play a very important role as a powerful degrading fungus in forest and grassland ecosystems converting fifty per cent of dead plant material on the ground into rich fertile soil. Without this fungus, the termite…

Goemkarponn Desk BAMBOLIM: Around 17 stalls outside Goa Medical College (GMC) & Hospital premises were demolished in the early hours today. The shops were demolished using excavators and bulldozers in the presence of a large police force. Citing a 2018 order, the deputy collector had last week issued an order to the stall owners and vendors to immediately vacate from the government property. The order stated that the vendors had illegally encroached on the govt property without obtaining requisite permissions. However, what is surprising is that the stall owners and vendors claimed that their delegation was assured by Chief Minister…

Roads in Surla await attention Goemkarponn desk BICHOLIM: The roads in Surla village need urgent attention with the local panch is hopeful that the work would begin after the monsoon. The roads in the village are dilapidated and being away from the main panchayat Sural village is neglected. If one has to go to the village he will have to first cross the Chorla ghat and enter the village. “The health minister, Vishwajeet Rane has completed the work of a bridge in our village and the file of roads came back because of some technical fault. We are told that…