update on old association

MINUTES 02 JUNE 2006

Meeting postponed due to Queen’s Birthday holiday, to 12^th June 2006-06-05

UPDATE

from Jason Brown

Little bit of a timewarp moment last week in more ways than one.

First I drove straight past the China aid funded Justice building and just about turned into the old offices in the former packing shed in town.

Yeps, straight past the big ugly Chinese building. Second timewarp was looking up the founding members of the Cook Islands Journalists Association. Here they are:

Barbara Dreaver

Lisa Williams

Abigail Terei

Alex Sword

Piritau Nga

Nancy Puia

Emile Kairua

Jason Brown

Florence Syme

Aere Anne Nicholas

Kathy Papatua

Tauraki Raea

Vainetutai Tamaeva Nichols

Raemaki Karati

Denise Tito

Interesting to note that of the 15 names listed and witnessed, only six of the journalists are still in the country. Not one of them, including myself, remains in full time journalism.

Given that CIJA was originally established in October 1993, this means a 100 per cent loss of journalism experience in this country in roughly a decade.

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