Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder.

Wish you were here.

Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm John that's with my colleague Cleo Pascal of the Foundation for the

Defense of democracies ranging over Oceania and the contests with the People's Republic of China's extremely sophisticated soft power ops.

We go now to the Solomon Islands.

One of them is Guadalcanal.

This is north of Australia and heretofore the contest with

China has been lost to a prime minister elected several times named so gavari.

However, the new page in the Solomon Islands is that

So Gavari is no longer a candidate for the prime minister ship. One of his

allies is the candidate and that election is that choice is pending now.

What are the choices, Cleo?

So this is a parliamentary system.

So Gervari won his seat. He is one of the 50 members of parliament.

But what happens now is those 50 members elect one of theirs to be the Prime Minister and it's largely divided into two groups.

One is the Sogovari sympathetic group and that has put forward as its candidate Jeremiah

Manelli who was the foreign minister under Segavari so worked very closely

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