“O Heraldo was started in 1900 by Messias Gomes, the founder and three other members including Dr Antonio Maria Da Cunha, who later had fallout with Messias and started his own Portuguese paper Heraldo. There were two Portuguese daily papers in Goa at the same time. When Messias returned to Goa from Portugal he was made the Professor of the Liceu and he continued with O Heraldo. The newspaper was a daily but had some interruptions in between. I used to read it till the year 1940, when I was 31 years old. Amadeus Prazeres de Costa, was the editor of newspaper in the 1940s till it was taken over by Antonio Fernandes. My father, Alvaro Viegas was the sub-editor for OHeraldo in 1921 when he was living in Panjim. When he moved to Margao, he worked as a sub-editor for ‘Ultramar,’ the first Goan Portuguese paper which started in 1859. ‘Ultramar’ closed down in 1942 because of the Salazar Regime. He then started working as a Librarian in Margao Municipal Library. The newspaper back then carried local news and social life. There was competition as well among newspaper. I was actively reading newspapers as my father would bring him all the newspapers for us to read right from my young age. We even had Portuguese newspapers coming from Portugal,” says the Curtorim based Viegas.