For years, Fijian professionals like doctors, accountants, lawyers and managers have been leaving the country for jobs in Australia and New Zealand.
But Sanjay Ramesh, political editor of the Fiji Times, an Indo-Fijian community newspaper in Sydney, said now plumbers, construction workers and electricians are increasingly joining the migration trend.
“They are really concerned about the future,” he said.
“They think that there is no resolution in sight in Fiji and that’s what’s driving them out of there. They think that Fiji is heading toward some sort of economic disaster.”
