He is currently Executive Editor of Herald. His first book was the novel ‘Touched by the Toe’ that was published in 2004. In 2008 he published a collection of the works of Goan journalist Fanchu Loyola translated from the Portuguese to English in the book ‘Passionate and Unrestrained. In 2011, Moniz Barbosa brought out ‘Goa Rewound’ a socio-political commentary on Goa 50 years after its liberation from Portuguese rule.