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O Heraldo was established as the first daily Portuguese newspaper on 21 May 1900 by Aleixo Clemente Messias Gomes in Goa. [2] After a ten-year period in Lisbon, Messias Gomes undertook major expansions and modernisations of the paper's operations in 1919. [3]
As a writer and journalist, between 1942 and 1961, Jorge published about 16 flyers and books against the Portuguese government. In the 1940s, he worked for oHeraldo. [3] Following his release from jail in the early 1950s, Jorge moved to Bombay and began contributing to T. B. Cunha's Konkani periodical, Azad Goem (transl. Free Goa).
Miranda also introduced Alexyz and Erasmo de Sequeira, who was responsible for the operations of the Goan newspaper, Goa Monitor. Alexyz later joined the West Coast Times in Margao and subsequently became the inaugural cartoonist for the Goan newspaper O Heraldo newspaper during the 1980s.
English-language newspapers in Goa comprise: O Heraldo (The Herald), Goa's oldest newspaper, formerly a Portuguese language daily owned by the family of Raul Fernandes (Herald Publications Pvt Ltd), a local printing enterprise that grew out of a stationery shop; The Navhind Times, published by the former mining house of the Dempos since 1963 ...
Vaman Balkrishna Naique Prataprao Sardesai (5 May 1923 – 6 May 1994) was an Indian poet, freedom fighter and diplomat from Goa.Along with Libia Lobo Sardesai, whom he later married, he ran an underground radio station, Voice of Freedom, that transmitted across Portuguese Goa from 1955 to 1961, advocating the cause of the Goan independence movement.
Until 1983, The Navhind Times was the sole English-language daily in Goa, till the Portuguese-language O Heraldo converted to being a broadsheet daily in English too on October 10, 1983. In 1987, the Gomantak Times joined, as the third English-language daily in Goa. But it shut down in 2020, during the pandemic year, citing financial pressures.
John Manuel Vaz (21 March 1939 - 7 December 2018) was an Indian politician from Goa. He served as a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Goa headed by Luizinho Faleiro from 30 November 1998 [1] until his resignation on 3 February 1999. [6] He won the 1994 Goa Legislative Assembly elections from the Mormugao constituency. [7]
Mario de Loyola Furtado (26 April 1913 – 30 October 1946) [1] was a Portuguese lawyer and one of Goa's premier journalists. His family ran a newspaper titled the A India Purtuguesa, which was an avenue for Goans troubled by the Portuguese rule. [2]