Pagination only works on Local does not work on Live

I am struggling to get pagination working on the live site.

I have tried changing the permalinks.
I have tried remaking the .htaccess file
I have rebuilt the site’s post from scratch manually

I am at a loss what is wrong because the code works fine locally but not on the live site.

Here is the the index.php code

<?php

      $queryObject = new  WP_Query( array(
        'showposts' => 5,
        'post_type' => array('post', 'recipe', 'sousviderecipe'),
        'paged' => $paged,
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'orderby' => 'date'
        ));

      // The Loop
          if ( $queryObject->have_posts() ) :
              $i = 0;
              while ( $queryObject->have_posts() ) :
                  $queryObject->the_post();
                  if ( $i == 0 ) : ?>
                    <div class="first-blog-posts">
                      <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="blog-link">
                        <?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
                        echo '<div class="first-image">';

                        echo the_post_thumbnail('feature-image');
                        echo '</div>';
                            }
                        ?>
                        <div class="post-box">
                          <h2 class="blog-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                          <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                        </div>
                      </a>
                    </div>
                    <div class="small-blogs">
                  <?php endif;
                   if ( $i != 0 ) : ?>

                    <div class="blog-posts">
                      <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>" class="blog-link">
                        <?php if (has_post_thumbnail()) {
                        echo '<div class="blog-image">';
                        echo the_post_thumbnail('blog-thumb');
                        echo '</div>';
                        }
                        ?>
                        <div class="blog-title">
                          <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2>
                        </div>
                        <div class="blog-text">
                          <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
                        </div>

                      </a>
                    </div>
                    <?php endif; ?>

                  <?php $i++;

              endwhile;

            the_posts_navigation();

          endif;?>