THE US FIJI TIMES World’s Largest Fiji Newspaper Out Of Republic of Fiji August 2019 Monthly Publication - Subscription Available Pages 52 Volume: 182 BOBBY NAIDU “A TRUE FIJI BORN AT HEART” US Fiji Times CEO/Publisher Rocky Ali Buksh believes that Bobby is a great mentor and that his life stories will certainly inspire our young Fiji people here in the ‘’The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave” to fol- low in his footprints. Bobby was the youngest of eight children who were all born in Nadi in the Western part of Fiji. His Father was a local schoolteacher and that his Mother had worked very hard to maintain a home for the children. Their plight was not uncommon, but definitely not easy, in some instances failing to make ends meet, but what the family may have lacked in material wealth, they had certainly made up for in strong fam- ily virtues. Bobby said that his beloved Father was a very ambitious man, and with his Mother being very hard working, they strived to instill those values into his siblings. Though born in Fiji, Bobby does not have many memories in general of that part of his life since moving to Los Angeles with the rest of his family in 1973. Continue Page 4 Meet Bobby Naidu, another passionate ‘Island Boy’ who for the past 40 years, still has the word Fiji etched in his heart. 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Please note that all contents of the US Fiji Times are copyrighted and cannot be reproduced in any form without the permission of the US Fiji Times by contacting them at [email protected] THE US FIJI TIMES October - 2018 Vol. 171 THE US FIJI TIMES 3 THE US FIJI TIMES August 2019 Vol. 182 THE US FIJI TIMES August 2019 Vol. 182 GO FIJI GO 4 THE US FIJI TIMES Local News BOBBY NAIDU “A TRUE FIJI BORN AT HEART” Continue from Page 1 This would probably best ex- Exclusive Economical Zone no family either,with every- across the country but my time, he reckons that has been plain his fondness of wanting (EEZ),but I was so excited to thing they had packed in their family and I still reside in the a truly and memorable expe- to re-connect with the home- see what was to come in this suitcases, which was undoubt- suburbs of Los Angeles and rience for everyone, and that land as a passionate Fijian. adventure”. edly a true immigrant experi- close to where it all started”.