FRIDAY, 18 SEPTEMBER 2026

Strict police monitoring can rein in criminals

In our small State, the crime rate has shot up to 94 per cent which compares with the highest in the country. Admitting it, our worried Chief Minister and Home Minister Pramod Sawant has gone on to say that most crimes are committed by migrants. In free Goa, migrants enter from all sides of borders which now constitutes 68 per cent of Goa's population. The continuous influx has become a threat to Goa's demography and identity.

Our Constitution guarantees that every Indian citizen has the fundamental right to live and earn in any part of the country but there is a clause that they should obey the laws of the land too. In fact, they commit rapes, robberies; murders, even uproot bank ATMs and flee to their native land.

    There are no stringent checks and monitoring of their movements. When serious crimes take place our Chief Minister orders the police to be strict with tenant verification drive, but it is too late. The police find that the criminals after committing the crime have escaped to their home land. They alert their counterparts and with their help get them arrested and transit them to Goa.




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Covid testing needed for large groups coming from abroad

S KAMAT, Alto Santa Cruz
Published Nov 20, 2022, 8:42 PM IST
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The first cruise liner of the season 'Viking Mars' has arrived at Mormugao harbour carrying some 1,100 persons, including passengers and crew on November 16. One wonders whether Covid testing has been done for all of them. Recently a similar cruise liner carrying 800 people reached Sydney harbour with all of them testing positive for Covid. We have had enough of people leaking Covid into Goa during the pandemic through the inter-State bus services, railway stations and the…

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