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Domnick re-elected Chandor Club President for third term
The new Managing Committee of Chandor Club for the term 2018 to 2020 was elected unanimously today at the general body meeting with Domnick Mendes being elected President for the third consecutive year. Incidentally in 1992 Domnick was elected as the Chandor Club’s youngest managing committee member and since then has held various responsibilities that culminated in him getting elected as President in 2014. During his first tenure as President he completed and inaugurated the majestic club premises that cost over Rs. 2 crore and is today...
read moreGBE’s Diwali Gift to Police
Top police officials hailed it as a rare gesture that was bound to be a morale booster as Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott not only painted the police outpost at Chandor but also provided some basic amenities to the police personnel posted there. GBE painted the entire façade of the outpost with the yellow and white paint of the erstwhile Portuguese regime and also offered five mattresses and pillows along with one water filter to the staff. The two ceiling fans that are not working will be replaced shortly. The entire cost of painting the outpost that...
read moreLudovina presented Global Teachers Award
Ludovina Menezes a government school teacher from Goa who was born and grew up at Molla Guirdolim, was presented the prestigious Global Teachers Award recently by MVLA Trust at a function held at Hyderabad making her the only Goan to get this award. Ludovina hailing from Velim has been a teacher right from the time she was studying at Chowgule college when she started teaching the primary classes. After working in the primary school for four years she taught at Chandrabaga Tukoba Higher Secondary School for two years. Then she was appointed a...
read moreHectic Weekend for GBE
It was a hectic weekend on 6th and 7th October as Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott had two different programmes on those days. On 6th October Deputy Superintendent of Police Raju Raut Dessai along with officials of Maina Curtorim Police station visited the village to interact with the people and on 7th October was the exhibition of the photography competition. The DySP visited Chandor along with the Police Inspector of Maina Curtorim Police Station Pravinkumar Vast, Police Sub Inspector at the Chandor police out post Amin Naik and police constables at...
read moreDiscover Goa
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott held its annual overnight programme “Discover Goa” on 13th and 14th September where in all 23 members visited Bardez taluka, spent the night in Ilhas and next morning explored Mormugao taluka. Visiting Santrem beach where members successfully angled fish thereby getting formalin free fish and the Our Lady of Rosary Church at Curca were real discovery for many members as these were places they were seeing for the first time. The following members went to discover Goa: Irene Antao, Maria Mascarenhas, Basil Fernandes,...
read moreProf Prajal tells Chandorkars their history and heritage
Noted Historian Prajal Sakhardande while asserting that Chandor was the most historical place in Goa being its first capital made a fervent plea to preserve and protect the remnants of the old Kadamba Fort that is still existing at Cotta in the village. Deliver a talk on Heritage of Chandor: The first capital of Goa, he said that Chandor village which was known as Chandra Aura at that time was the first capital of the Bhoj dynasty in the 4th to 6th Century as indicated by three copper plates existing in Shiroda whereby King Devrai Bhoj gave a...
read more22 Chandorkars trained in fruit & vegetable preservation
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott supported by Rotary Club of Cuncolim organized a “fruit and Vegetable Preservation course for people of Chandor for three days which was attended by 22 people. The course was conducted by Gajanan Tari a former employee of the Food and Nutrition Board of the Central Ministry of Women and Child and he taught the participants six different items all recommended by the Central Food Technological Research Institute at Mysore. Spread out over three days, the participants were guided as they prepared lime cordial, chilli...
read moreGBE members visit aged people
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott on 5th August 2018 visited the Home for the Aged at Cotta and besides interacting with the 15 inmates they also showed them a Konkani film titled “Chor Pulis” which was enjoyed very much by the spectators. GBE members Sebastiana Cardoso, Serena Antao, Lindarifa Fernandes, John Douglas Coutinho, Irene Antao, Emerson Britto, Maria Mascarenhas, Jose Coutinho, Benito Coutinho, Michael Gracias, Anthony Pereira, Derick Antao, Michelle Antao, Basil Fernandes, Cypriano Fernandes, Darwin Cardoso with his son Nikolai, Anand...
read moreGBE Gets New Managing Committee
Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott at its annual general body meeting held on 7th July 2018 unanimously elected a new Managing Committee headed by Julio D’Silva as the President. The elections were conducted by Felix Furtado who volunteered to be the Election Commissioner. It may be recalled that Julio D’Silva was the founder general secretary when the Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott was formally registered with the Registrar of Co-operative Societies 10 years ago and served as the general secretary till May 2015. His name was proposed by Michael Pereira and...
read moreGBE celebrates World Environment Day
People leaving the St Anthony’s Chapel at Cavorim after celebrating the novena mass were stunned to see some people standing with by the road side with their faces covered in plastic bags and carrying beautifully designed and printed posters with messages to preserve and protect environment. This was Ganv Bhavancho Ekvott’s novel way of observing World Environment Day following an idea mooted by ex President John Douglas Coutinho. Incidentally they also planted 25 trees around the periphery of St. Anthony Chapel property. Only flowering...
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