Islands Business January 2021 edition

Islands Business January Issue

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Opinion: Leadership of the Forum – Fiji’s Candidate

The Heads of the Pacific Islands Forum Governments will meet virtually in early February 2021 to choose the next Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), to succeed the outgoing Secretary General, Dame Meg

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2021: The diagnosis

After an incredibly challenging 2020, what will this year bring? We take a look at the economic and political prognosis and a few key sectors. Vaccinating for recovery Timely vaccination campaigns will be key to the

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Bleak prospects for Pacific tourism

Pacific island countries should not expect international travel to resume in earnest until late 2021, travel and aviation experts have warned. ‘You should forget the US market for 2021, as well as Europe and the

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Can Fiji’s BPOs deliver on their promise?

One of the few industries that has thrived during the coronavirus pandemic in Fiji ,  business process outsourcing (or BPOs) is also a sector which carries the hopes and ambitions of Fiji’s government and

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Death by slow strangulation

Growing up in his settlement in Nadi, western Fiji, Sundar Lal recalls an abundance of fish, crabs and prawns in the nearby creeks, rivers and foreshore areas. “We never returned empty-handed,” he recalls.

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