Profile of Chairman Colin Taimbari

Colin Taimbari is the founding Chairman of the Telikom Media Pool Competition.

While in the final semester of his Bachelor in Journalism program at the University of Papua New Guinea, he was employed by the Post-Courier newspaper and went on to spend 10 years as a print journalist.

He resigned from mainstream journalism as the Chief Political Reporter of The National newspaper in late 2003.

As a journalist, Colin Taimbari has widely covered PNG and the region.

He was awarded the PNG Journalist of the Year Award by the Divine Word University in 2002 and in 2003 won the Commonwealth Press Union's prestigious Harry Britain Fellowship spending two months in the United Kingdom on a study trip.

Colin Taimbari is currently the Public Relations Coordinator for the PNG Tourism Promotion Authority and also serves as a Director on the Board of the Surfing Association of PNG.

 

Launch of 2009 Media Pool Competition

By COLIN TAIMBARI

Chairman

Telikom Media Pool Competition

 

 Dear All,

The Media Pool competition Launch is this Friday, May 1, 2009. It will be at the Balcony - Lamana Hotel - 5pm start.

We are hoping to get all our major sponsors there on the evening.

Unfortunately, given our limited resources, the Launch is not open to all teams and players - each team is only allowed a captain and three players - all must be in team uniforms.

Please, email or text me the names (72002404) by 10am Friday.

 Invitation cards are also been printed and we will deliver to news directors, editors and managing directors of respective media houses as well as our sponsors.

 Invitations will also be given to sports reporters to cover event for publicity purposes.

Telikom will be presenting their cheque on the evening as well and as part of the program we will ask sponsors to draw names of teams to make up the competition draw for the year.

Majority of the teams have paid up their registrations except for two or three teams due to internal accounting processes etc, please, do so before midday Friday so we can lock in the 22 teams for this year.

EM Tasol.

 

Colin