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Cycling to say NO to plastic shopping bags
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott held a cycle expedition on February 25, 2018 in the revenue villages of Chandor, Cavorim and Guirdolim to educate and sensitise people into saying NO to plastic shopping bags. The expedition started at 6:45 am and ended at 9:45 with breakfast at the meeting place. Nine members of GBE undertook the three hour long expedition that commenced from St. Anthony’s Chapel at Cavorim and ended at the St. Francis Xavier’s Chapel at Guirdolim. The cyclists went right up to border of the village with neighbouring Sao Jose de...
read moreChristmas Party for Senior Citizens
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott organized its annual Christmas Party for senior citizens from the villages of Chandor Cavorim and Guirdolim at the Chandor Club premises Sunday morning where around 170 elders had a good time. Jalin the one man band belted out some great songs to keep the elders entertained the whole time. Besides, he also played the music whenever GBE members Anthony Pereira and Domnick Mendes sang. He also backed participants Jose Salvador Cardoso, Domnick Cardoso, Ida Antao, Maria Joaquina Antao and Annie Gomes when they sang songs....
read moreChandorkar say NO to State Highway
An impressive crowd of residents of Chandor, Cavorim and Guirdolim gathered at a meeting in Chandor on Sunday 22/10/2017 in one voice opposed a State Highway passing through their historic village and further resolved to even come on the streets if need be. The meeting held in front of the Chandor Church had various speakers highlighting the problem that the people will face if the State Highway passes through the village and also how the state highway was not in the interest of the people but of the industrial sector. While welcoming the...
read morePatwin Guirdolim Club President
The Guirdolim Club at its annual General Meeting yesterday unanimously elected the new Executive Committee with Patwin Fizardo as the president who was praised lavishly for the excellent work done by his as the committee member. Suresh Khandolkar who was elected as the treasure was also praised for his working in keeping the financial records of the club. Other office bearers elected are: Vice President – Gidwan Claudius D’Costa, General Secretary – Jose Antao, Asst Gen Secretary – Fabian Simoes, Asst. Treasurer – Adney Gonsalves,...
read moreSita TTAI Goa Chairperson
Sita Antao has been elected the Chairperson of Goa Chapter of the Travel Agent Association of India (TAAI) and will actually take office in the month of September 2017. Before being elected the Chairperson, Sita has served the organization for two terms as secretary and during the last term was the treasurer. The managing committee term is for two years. TAAI is a government recognized body and a representative of the organization goes for the official inspection of all tourism related projects which the government is supposed to...
read moreSan Joao programme at Chandor
At Chandor a huge crowd was present for the celebration organized by the Church where there were various contests for the different Basic Christian Communities more commonly known as somudais. A march past was held with each somudai participating in it where members wore colour co-ordinated clothes and some members of the somudai in the group would regularly hit the pido on the ground shouting San Joao. While one somudai danced the march another did the kotti dance with young girls draping the kunbi saree in the normal style and not the kunbi...
read moreOrientation for new panchayat members
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott organized an Orientation Programme for newly elected panchayat member that evoked a very good response with nearly 20 elected member participating along with around 15 villagers. While initially the panchayat members were appraised of their duties and responsibilities, they were also guided on going about doing their work and were strongly advised to delegate the work through the various committees made mandatory now. Some former sarpanchas and panchayat member complained of being dominated by the Secretary who did...
read moreJoe Antao Memorial Mando Festival held
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott organized the first Adv. Joe Antao Iadostik Mando Utsav (Adv. Joe Antao Memorial Mando Festival) on 29th April 2017 in honour of its president late Advocate Joe Antao who died in office and who was a great singer and Mando lover. In all, six groups presented seven Mandos which were much appreciated by the large crowd gathered in front of the Chandor church near the cross to witness the festival. Goa’s extremely popular Mando groups like the Curtorimchim Motiam and Orlimchim Mogrim participated in the...
read moreCLAFASIO, THE NEW MLA
Clafasio Dias who was elected as the Member of Legislative Assembly from Cuncolim constituency by the lowest margin of 33 votes achieved this feat by taking a lead in 17 of the 42 polling booths despite ranking at number 4 position in the Cuncolim Municipal area. Clafasio led in all the 3 booths of Macasana, 4 booths of Chandor-Cavorim, 4 booths of Guirdolim, 4 booths of Paroda and the Government Primary School Panzorconnin East Wing and the booth at Village Panchayat of Ambaulim. In fact his victory is admirable because he proved that if the...
read moreVillage walk
To celebrate Republic Day, Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott, Chandor organized a village walk for its members visiting the heritage and important geographic sites in the village keeping in mind that the new Tourism Master Plan has earmarked the village of Chandor as a place for village walks. The walk began at Bansor where the age old granite stone where in earlier times the gaonkars of the village used to dance the mell on the last day of carnival. However, this practice is not followed anymore as the original gaonkars have migrated from the...
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