
Kym Blanche
Co-owner and diving operations manager at Papatura Island Retreat, Solomon Islands
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Jun 11, 2026
Solomons On The Sauce – Part 1
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Kym BlancheGUEST
You know, it's definitely gonna put money into your family, but it's gonna take time.

Kym BlancheGUEST
'Cause we're gonna hire you, we're gonna buy food from you, and we're gonna use you as gardeners and drivers and all that sort of thing.

Kym BlancheGUEST
Anyway, it fell over, and then a few years later, there was a new lady that started at the provincial government and she came across to Brisbane pr- and was trying to find someone that might be interested in doing tourism in Ysabel where there was no tourism.
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Kym BlancheGUEST
Yeah, so in the, in the late '90s, early 2000s, there was a, there was a tension, but it was all in Honiara.

Kym BlancheGUEST
It was between the Malaitans, which is another province in the Guadalcanal, and they were fighting over, um, land.

Kym BlancheGUEST
A lot of Malaitans had ended up in top positions and were sort of taking over down there.