Tom Kenny

3 weeks ago | anz.com.au | Kishti Sen |Tom Kenny |Sarah Stubbings

Tourism, which supported Fiji’s economy post COVID, has largely stabilised as a result of capacity constraints and uncertainties in home markets. "Fiji’s remarkable turnaround in economic performance from its deepest pandemic-induced recession is due to the nation’s ability to quickly welcome tourists in large numbers once it opened its international border.”Should Fiji be concerned? The short answer is: don’t worry. Private sector investment is emerging.

1 month ago | anz.com | Tom Kenny |Brian Martin |Bansi Madhavani |Raymond Yeung

The economic landscape in the United States looks different today than it did at the end of 2024. The data suggest economic activity has stalled, in response to policy-driven uncertainty. Other factors, like the Californian wildfires and extremely cold winter weather, may also have also played a role. ANZ Research expects real US gross domestic product (GDP) to rise by 2 per cent on average in 2025.

1 month ago | fijitimes.com.fj | Kishti Sen |Soni Kumari |Tom Kenny

Papua New Guinea had a record year for cocoa exports in 2024. It yielded PGK1,233m in export revenue, surpassing coffee receipts of PGK989m for the first time in PNG’s history. That higher ranking will, in our view, be short lived. While prices are expected to stay high, PNG cannot significantly increase supply quickly due to historically small crop sizes. Coffee, on the other hand, is expected to have another bumper year following a low volume season last year.

1 month ago | mixonline.com | Tom Kenny

There’s a reason that backstage crews around the world wear black, or at least dark colors, and it has everything to do with not being seen. The stage hands, guitar techs, monitor engineers, P.A. riggers, LDs and lighting assistants, video operators, wireless wranglers, pyrotechnics specialists, cable runners, drum tuners, A2s, systems engineers, FOH mixers, even the guy with a camera crawling along the catwalk a few feet below the roof of the arena—once the lights go down, they disappear.

2 months ago | fijitimes.com.fj | Kishti Sen |Catherine Birch |Tom Kenny

Aligning investment in transport (roads, ports and jetties, airports and bridges), utilities (electricity generation, water supply) and health infrastructure to growth in the economy and broader population is a challenge many governments, including Fiji face. The public sector drives most of the work, but the government with competing priorities and a set pool of resources available to them cannot fund all the necessary expenditures.