I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker.

The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba.

Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

If the constitution goes, I go.