The human locator beacon that is Kiwi investigative journalist David Lomas regularly travels the globe in search of answers to unsolved family mysteries.
But off screen, it’s not widely known there’s one country that’s significant in David’s life for his own family reasons – Fiji.
It was where he called home for eight of his first 16 years, when David’s father worked as an air traffic controller at Nadi Airport. And it’s where his older brother and mentor, Peter, is buried after sadly dying from Covid complications, aged 74, last year. Peter, also a veteran journalist, was the publisher and editor of the Fiji Sun, ensuring the paper was relevant to all Fijians rather than just the educated and the expatriates. Along with his late wife Venina, he was a key member of the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA), which helped with the training
