Category: Agriculture

$70 million of the stimulus package to support local famers

Admin - May 5, 2020

Cocoa in one of the Malaita farms |Photo: Local Famers page. The government has allocated a total of seventy- million dollars towards country's productive and ... Read More

Agriculture

Gov’t is working on managing livelihood issues during ‘State of emergency’ period

Admin - April 1, 2020

Honiara central market The National Government through its Livelihood Sector Committee is working to ensure people's livelihood is properly managed following the declaration of emergency ... Read More

Agriculture

MAL to ban pork products import

Admin - February 17, 2020

Biosecurity Director Francis Tsatsia sharing ASF information to the private sectors during an information-sharing session last week. A total ban to all pork products imported ... Read More

Agriculture

SI embarked on Taro and Cassava export

Admin - December 16, 2019

Taro farm The Solomon Islands is now embarking on exporting cassava and taro products. The Minister Foreign Affairs and External Trade-Hon Jeremiah Manele told Parliament ... Read More

Agriculture

Less support for Agriculture

Admin - November 29, 2019

Farmers in Solomon Islands| Photo Supplied. Less than one percent of agricultural households in the country have access to credit or loans for agricultural activities. ... Read More

Agriculture

DCGA to transform Agriculture sector

Admin - October 12, 2019

Banana from the Makira Banana Festival|Photo: Doris Raumae The Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, MAL, today announced its 'National Consultants for Solomon Islands Agriculture and ... Read More

Agriculture

Banana Festival sets for next weekend

Admin - October 2, 2019

2015 Banana queens on a float parade The Makira Banana Festival is set for next weekend, confirms Chairlady of the local organising committee, Mrs. Aukeni ... Read More

HISTORY

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.