Comments on: Where are the TIGA’s teeth?

By: atticus

atticus — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:01:57 +0000

From the hafl-baked pata.org website: Visa plays ace card … talk about a headline from the 80s in Red Top London press! For a multicultural organisation that purports to have members across Asia Pacific, this headline is insulting, stupid and third rate. The mindless pun on “race card” is so inappropriate for a member grouping that includes many different races. Visa must be insane to keep their membership after this kind of moronic attempt at being clever. Maybe it is just as well that 90 per cent of PATA members don’t use English as their home language, because this site is a stab in the eye for anyone with half a brain.

By: Atticus

Atticus — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:34:42 +0000

Seems whoever is doing the communications hack job at PATA is singing for his supper. The latest piece about the boss meeting the PM in NZ was pure SOS material, typical of a sad incompetent with issues. There was, apparently, a very successful conference in Samoa called TIDES, but the tragic fool in charge of the site lost the data, and uses a link to a totally out of date site. No wonder PATA has more staff than members.

By: John

John — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:00:28 +0000

Sad to see PATA waste another opportunity to regain some credibility. This “work in progress” site is pretty and has potential, but going out early and making boastful and untrue statements is just typical of an organisation that lives in a vacuum, removed from the ever-declining membership. Having junked the old site they have offered members nothing by way of a replacement, promising to make it better. The facile wording also smacks of another amateur at work. The main target of the website is surely members, yet it seems to address an unknown outside audience with its meaningless “this is PATA” prattle.