Category: Conservation

Oil spill cleanup nears completion

Admin - April 1, 2019

Solomon Islands office of Environment and Conservation Division officers during the clean up. Resolve Marine Group is now taking full control of the oil spill ... Read More

Choiseul Province

Poachers threatens rangers after illegal Sea Cucumber harvest

Admin - March 12, 2019

The Arnavon Islands is the only legally registered Marine Park in the Solomon Islands. Photo: Arnavon Islands FB page. The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine ... Read More

Conservation

5 die every year from Croc attacks

Admin - February 20, 2019

A captured Crocodile. Picture: Jonel Franjokeni Every year, five people are being killed by saltwater crocodiles in Solomon Islands. Following growing public concerns about saltwater ... Read More

Conservation

Doves rescued from extinction

Admin - January 25, 2019

Santa Cruz ground doves (Alopecoenas sanctaecrucis). Photo: Wildlife Reserves Singapore. Four Santa Cruz ground doves (Alopecoenas sanctaecrucis) were born at Singapore's Jurong Bird Park in ... Read More

Conservation

Solomon Islands Mariculturist to receive Independence award

Admin - June 12, 2018

Cletus Pita Cletus Pita from Shortland islands in the Western Solomons, is one of the recipients of the 40th Solomon Islands Independence Anniversary awards ... Read More

Conservation

Mbarana marks ‘World Environment day’

Admin - June 5, 2018

Ministry of Environment PS Dr. Melchoir Mataki, Guadalcanal Province Premier, Hon. Anthony Veke and Mbarana community reps, plant a tree to mark the event. Barana ... Read More

Conservation

New national park.

Admin - June 1, 2018

SPREP Administrative office building in progress. Preparations are underway for the opening of a new 'nature park' at Barana Village in Northwest Guadalcanal ... 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.