Category: COVID-19 update

COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine arrives Friday

Sibc News - March 17, 2021

Main points: -AstraZeneca vaccine to arrive this Friday -First 24,000 doses free of charge provided by the COVAX facility -People’s Republic of China to provide ... Read More

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PRT Patrol Officers at the Western border ambushed

Sibc News - February 25, 2021

Four Solomon Islands Police Response Team(PRT) at the Border were ambushed ahead of Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare's visit to Nila in Shortland Islands yesterday. Police ... Read More

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Quarantine period extended for two COVID-19 high risk facilities

Sibc News - February 22, 2021

“.....we have no choice but to extend the quarantine period for everyone." Read More

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All COVID-19 positive cases tested negative

Sibc News - February 21, 2021

Eighteen COVID-19 positive cases tested negative; Six rectivation cases tested negative Read More

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POTENTIAL COVID-19 OUTBREAK REPORTED: SWAB RESULTS RETURNED NEGATIVE

Sibc News - January 28, 2021

The National Health Emergency Operation Centre (NHEOC) of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services has activated it’s Emergency Response Plan’ last night to validate, ... Read More

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$1.2 million PRC funds still at the Central Bank

Sibc News - January 11, 2021

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare The $1.2 million fund from the People's Republic of China (PRC) is currently at the Central bank of Solomon Islands. Prime ... Read More

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Wale calls to halt UK repatriation flight

Sibc News - January 7, 2021

Opposition Leader Mathew Wale Leader of Opposition Hon. Mathew Wale calls on the government to halt repatriation plans for the United Kingdom (UK) as the ... 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.