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| Church accuses Goa of shielding drug peddlers Posted: 22 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT A Church official in Goa has accused the state government of failing to curb the drug trade and shielding the police-politician-drug mafia nexus. "The government is not honest and its intent to probe the nexus is lacking. The press has covered enough of how the men in uniform are indulged with the drug peddlers," Father Maverick Fernandes, executive secretary of the Council for Social Justice and Peace (CSJP), a wing of the Goa church, said. He alleged that the government was "busy shielding the nexus." The Church remarks came after state Chief Minister Digamber Kamat, in the ongoing assembly session, did not pay heed to the demand of the opposition to hand over the probe in the issue to the CBI from the local police. Leader of Opposition Manohar Parrikar had alleged in the assembly on July20 that Kamat was shielding people linked to the drug trade. The CSJP had earlier in a statement on the World Drug Day had said that the politicians, police and traffickers collude to make drugs easily available. It said, "bars and taverns are focal points of relaxation where soft drinks are laced with narcotics and other psychotropic substances are easily available. This behavior gnaws into the fabric of family life." Courtesy: cathnewsindia |
| Ban rave parties, says Goa woman legislator Posted: 22 Jul 2010 06:29 AM PDT Rave parties should be completely banned in Goa and scantily-clad women should be dropped from government advertisements promoting tourism outside the state, Goa’s only woman legislator said on Thursday. Speaking during a discussion in the assembly, Congress legislator Victoria Fernandes claimed that rave parties rampantly encouraged the use of drugs among tourists and local youngsters. “Rave parties create a fearful atmosphere. Such night parties should be completely banned. They are having an evil impact on society,” she said. Drug-laced rave parties are a common occurrence on several beaches along the state’s 105-km coastline, especially along beaches like Anjuna, Morjim, Arambol and Agonda. The legislator from St Cruz legislative constituency, on the outskirts of Panaji, also criticised the Goa government’s tourism-related advertisements, which, she said, depicted women in bad light. “The Goa government’s ads should not have scantily-clad women to attract tourists to the state. It is a dirty, insensitive trend which has to be stopped,” Fernandes said. Courtesy:TOI |
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