Category: CDF

Independent Group calls on PM to reconsider Caucus decision on CDF

Admin - December 14, 2019

The Leader of the Independent Group has appealed to the Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to rescind the decision of the Caucus and allow the five ... Read More

CDF

‘All Constituents entitled for CDF’

Admin - November 28, 2019

Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Maellanga All constituencies in the country are entitled to the Constituency Development Funds (CDF). Deputy Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Maelanga ... Read More

Breaking News

China to continue with CDF funding; ‘Not in Cash!’

Admin - October 15, 2019

The People's Republic of China (PRC) will continue to support the country's development projects, Rural Development Funds (CDF). This was an assurance from the Solomon ... Read More

Aid

COMMENTARY: Abundant aid can undermine governance

Admin - March 28, 2018

Commentary By Ruth Liloqula, Chair of Transparency Solomon Islands Without an effective national plan and leadership, abundant external aid undermines domestic governance Transparency Solomon Islands commends ... Read More

CDF

Taiwan disburses $29M for constituency development fund

Admin - December 14, 2017

The Prime Minister and Taiwanese ambassador with senior officials. Photo: PMO A $29.3 million payment from the Republic of China on Taiwan to Solomon Islands ... Read More

CDF

WEST MAKIRA MP CALLED ON TO EXPLAIN CDF PROJECTS

Sibc News - April 20, 2016

Hon. Derrick Manuari. Photo credit: National Parliament of Solomon Islands. A man from West Makira Constituency is calling on their Member of Parliament to explain ... Read More

CDF

SIIPHRAA CONDEMNED SELECTIVE CDF DISTRIBUTION

Sibc News - February 2, 2016

Central Kwara'ae Constituency map. Photo credit: Parliament. The Solomon Islands Indigenous Peoples Human Rights Advocacy Association (SIIPHRAA) has condemned in strongest terms the selective distribution ... 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.