The main street is lined with small family run businesses, supermarkets and restaurants offering a lively pedestrian thoroughfare.

Recently, due to political changes and loss of overseas markets, sugar cane farming and production has been steadily decreasing.

This has been reflected in the increasing migration of people to the main island of Viti Levu, in search of employment opportunities.

There is at least one movie theatre and several restaurants in the main street providing a range of local and Chinese flavours.

There is a fairly large market towards the end of the town where one can buy and sample a range of foods, spices, fish, poultry, goats and other local products.

The Labasa soccer team is known as the "Babasiga Lions" and play their home games at Subrail Park.

Its most famous talent is Roy Krishna, born and bred in Siberia, a farming community about five kilometres from Labasa town.

Labasa FC prides itself for having featured prodigious talents such as Ivor Evans, Simon Peters and Taniela Tuilevuka.

The former Labasa striker and military officer began his soccer career at 17 in 1987 after being chosen to play for the national U20 team alongside Maritino Nemani, Ravuama Madigi, Abdul Mannan and Raymond Stoddart.

He was also a member of the national team that defeated Australia in 1988, later won gold in the 1991 South Pacific Games.