Category: COVID-19 EMERGENCY POWERS REGULATIONS 2020

CABINET APPROVED ADDITIONAL MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19

Admin - October 12, 2020

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare delivering his COVID-19 nation wide address Cabinet has approved additional response measures under the current Emergency Regulations in light of the ... Read More

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SCHOOLS TO CONTINUE NORMAL DESPITE THE FIRST COVID-19 CASE

Admin - October 4, 2020

COVID-19 Oversight Committee updating local media Schools throughout the country will continue with their normal classes. This was according to the Permanent Secretary of the ... Read More

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Solomon Islands lots it’s COVID-19 free status

Admin - October 4, 2020

“It pains me to say that we have lost our COVID-19 free status.” Read More

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SIG is committed to solving Philippine students visa/passport issues

Admin - September 30, 2020

COVID-19 oversight committee members during a press conference. The government is committed to solving visa and passport issues facing local students in the Philippine. A ... Read More

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Twelve Solomon Islands students tested positive of COVID-19

Admin - September 16, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister A total of 12 students studying in the Philippines were tested positive for covid-19. The first six students were among the ... Read More

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Wale slams government over Philippine students situation

Admin - September 15, 2020

“It is unimaginable what they have been put through and I can only hope that the ordeal will go away soon.” Read More

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COVID-19 tests for Philippine students costs SBD $1 million

Admin - September 15, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare|Photo SIBC TV The Solomon Islands government is committed to meet the 1 million Solomon Island dollars for COVID-19 testing ... 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.