CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JERRY GINUA - A TRUE MELANESIAN JOURNALIST
By SCOTT WAIDE Four days since his passing, I've finally mustered the courage to write about this great man who taught me a lot. These words, however, will be forever inadequate for he was greater than the descriptions in this blog post. There is an emptiness for many of us who came after him. It is the loss not of a journalist but of an older brother and a humble leader in his own right. So let this piece be a celebration of his life. For being human is all we can be in this life. We can never be perfect and flawless. We can only be as honest as we can be and as honorable as our human will permits us to be. It is impossible not to make mistakes. For the absence of mistakes rarely means perfection. It means stagnation in the journey of our lives. Somebody somewhere has had to make mistakes in order for some level of perfection to occur. Somebody somewhere has had to make mistakes in order to us to learn from the lessons. Jerr