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Kym Blanche

Kym Blanche

Co-owner and diving operations manager at Papatura Island Retreat, Solomon Islands

Jun 11, 2026

16:45
Yeah.
16:45
You know, it's definitely gonna put money into your family, but it's gonna take time.
16:49
'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.
16:55
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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31:09
W- can you tell us about when that happened and, um-
31:13
Yeah, so in the, in the late '90s, early 2000s, there was a, there was a tension, but it was all in Honiara.
31:21
It was between the Malaitans, which is another province in the Guadalcanal, and they were fighting over, um, land.
31:26
A lot of Malaitans had ended up in top positions and were sort of taking over down there.

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