Team shares organisation’s plans with new minister
THE team at Investment Fiji hosted its new line minister – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for External Trade, Co-operatives and SMEs Manoa Kamikamica last week at their office.
Investment Fiji Board chair Jenny Seeto expressed gratitude in having the presence of the line minister, and elaborated on Investment Fiji’s role, the impact it makes to the Fijian economy and its future plans.
Ms Seeto shared that Investment Fiji played an active role in promoting and facilitating both foreign and domestic investment and exports.
She said Investment Fiji had recently gone through a transition and had established itself as an Investment Promotion Agency, enabling the organization to attract efficient investment and export deals for Fiji’s economic growth and prosperity.
With a high-performing team of 37 staff who have adapted well to the transition and continue to support global investors in setting up businesses and local entrepreneurs to thrive in foreign markets, Ms Seeto assured the newlyelected Minister the team would continue further developing and strengthening Fiji’s investment and trade.
Investment Fiji chief executive officer Kamal Chetty made a presentation to the Mr Kamikamica which delved deeper into the major trends impacting investments globally, legislative reforms, strategic priorities, key investment and trade target sectors and certain challenges faced by the agency.
Mr Chetty also provided an in-depth on the foreign and domestic investment projects in the pipeline and future projects and its contribution towards the economy and job-creation after which Mr Kamikamica assured he would work along with the Investment Fiji team to accelerate the projects.