This is particularly pertinent when you consider mineral fuels make up almost 30 percent of our total imports bill.
Recent developments in the Fiji economy Ladies and gentlemen, despite the sizeable devastation from the category 5 Tropical Cyclone (TC) Winston packing winds in excess of 300 kmph in February and the floods associated with TC Zena in April, I am pleased to say that the Fiji economy is still poised to grow this year, by 2.4 percent, our seventh straight year of growth (something which we have not enjoyed since the early 1970’s).