Fiji

Petroleum Geology of Fiji

The Fiji Platform developed as an island arc in the Tertiary. Extensional and transpressional tectonics have deformed the fill of extensive sedimentary basins within the Platform. These basins commonly contain over 3 km of stratified deposits. Five deep petroleum-exploration wells were drilled between 1980 and 1982, but all were dry. There remain reasonable prospects, however, because none of t...

The Fiji poverty report

The Case of Fiji

Social Policies in Fiji

In this paper we review Fiji's social development policies and strategies in the postindependence period, drawing on various development plans. We conclude that Fiji has followed a fairly good set of social development strategies over the last 40 years. Education and health, which were prioritized from the colonial period, have received continued government commitment. The strategies and focuse...

Absence of Syphilis in Fiji

To the Editor of the " Indian Medical Gazette." Silt, -My remarks 011 the above subject, to which Dr. Daniels takes exception in your November issue, did not refer to his own! valuable papers, but to private conversations with Mr. Hutchinson and others. I had noted that Dr. Daniels' statements referred to the aboriginal Fijians only. My septicism applied to tho moro sweeping statement that syph...