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ATA’A COMMUNITY MEMBERS RECEIVED EASY-TO-USE STOVES

Climate Change, Communities, Conservation, Malaita Province, People, Projects, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines

April 21, 2016

Ata’a communities in North Malaita have received 47 easy-to-use cooking stoves yesterday. Thanks to the United Nations Development ProgrammeR...

SOLOMON ISLANDERS DUTY BOUND FOR FOLLOWING GENERATIONS

Choiseul Province, Climate Change, Communities, Conservation, People, Projects, Resources, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines, USA, USAID

February 19, 2015

Solomon Islanders have a duty to the generations that follow. These are the words of the United States Ambassador to Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and PNG,...

LOGGING ACTIVITIES AT MARAU SOUND RAISED CONCERNS

Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Guadalcanal Province, Logging, People, Top Headlines

January 26, 2015

Current logging activities on Marau Sound, East Guadalcanal has prompted concern for marine conservation areas there. A Philip Hauraha told SIBC News,...

LOGGING & MINING ACTIVITIES THREATENS WORLD HERITAGE TENGANO

Conservation, Environment, Logging, Mining, People, Rennell/Bellona Province, Solomon Islands, Top Headlines

December 17, 2014

The Lake Tengano World Heritage Site Association is calling on the new government to give urgent attention to the status of Lake Tengano, East of the ...

TUBI REMAINS PROHIBITED SPECIES UNDER FORESTRY LAW

Conservation, Government, Laws, Logging, Mining, People, Resources, Top Headlines

August 21, 2014

Tubi is a prohibited species under the Forest Resources and Timber Utilization (protected species) Regulations 2012. A media statement sanctioned by t...

GOV’T TO LIFT BECHE-DE-MER BAN: GOV’T INSIDER

Conservation, Government, Resources, Top Headlines

August 20, 2014

Solomon Islands Cabinet has already agreed to lift the beche-de-mer harvest ban during discussions in July this year, well-placed government sources t...

EAST RENNELL ENDANGERED BUT NOT DE-LISTED: TAUIKA

Conservation, Environment, Rennell/Bellona Province, Top Headlines

July 13, 2014

The East Rennell World Heritage Management Committee has described as “false” claims that East Rennell was de-listed as a World Heritage s...

ZIONA MARINE CONSERVATION AREA RECOGNISED

Awards/Recognitions, Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Organisations, Top Headlines

May 16, 2014

Zinoa Marine Conservation Area in Choiseul Province has gained international recognition from an international panel of experts during the World Coral...

COOPERATE TO CONSERVE LARGER MARINE AREAS: DASIPIO

Awards/Recognitions, Conservation, Environment, Fisheries, Top Headlines

May 15, 2014

The Nation’s first Coral Triangle Initiative Women’s Leadership Award winner Moira Dasipio says Solomon Islands Communities need to work t...

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The Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation was established by an Act of Parliament - The Broadcasting Ordinance 1976. It was established to provide a high quality broadcasting service, by radio, of a wide range of programs for the information, education and entertainment of all people living in the sovereign borders of the Independent State of Solomon Islands.

Radio broadcasting was established by US military forces in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (BSIP) during World War Two. In 1944, the Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) developed small, mediumwave stations at Lunga on Guadalcanal and Munda, New Georgia. These were designed to provide information and entertainment to the hundreds of thousands of US service personnel then based in the BSIP. The stations were part of the Mosquito Network, a loose network of similar AFRS stations stretching through the South-West Pacific, from Bougainville in the north to Auckland in the south, and including outlets in Espiritu Santo and Noumea.

As the Pacific war moved northwards, the AFRS stations closed and BSIP listeners returned to tuning to broadcast programmes from Australia or further afield for entertainment and information. In 1946, a rudimentary weekly half hour of news and service bulletins was established by the BSIP Administration. The service was transmitted from Honiara on regular inter-island radio frequencies using Government transmission equipment and soon developed a regular following.

By 1952, the broadcasts were on a much stronger footing and the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Service (SIBS), an arm of the Government, was established. In 1976, new legislation converted the SIBS into the Solomon Islands Broadcasting Corporation (SIBC), a totally independent public service broadcaster charged with providing national radio coverage and a full range of news, educational and entertainment services.

For more on the history of radio in Solomon Islands click here: SIBC Stations

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