Category: COVID-19

AstraZeneca Vaccines arrives in Honiara

Sibc News - March 19, 2021

The AstraZeneca Vaccines through the COVAX facility has finally arrived in the Solomon Islands. The vaccines were received by the Minister of Health and Medical ... Read More

Agriculture

NORTHWEST GUADALCANAL NONI FARMERS BENEFIT FROM FIRST HARVEST

Sibc News - March 10, 2021

A noni farmer packing his first harvested noni fruits Northwest Guadalcanal Noni Farmers can now enjoy the benefits of selling noni from their farms. Thanks ... Read More

Airlines

GOVERNMENT LAUNCHED DOMESTIC TRAVEL BUBBLE POLICY

Sibc News - February 26, 2021

Staffs from Solomon Airlines during the launching The Domestic Tourism Bubble (DTB) Policy or Iumi Tugeda Holiday packages have been finally launched in line with ... Read More

Bio-Security

FOUR ACTIVE COVID-19 CASES FOR SOLOMON ISLANDS

Sibc News - December 21, 2020

The number of positive COVID-19 cases in the country has dropped to four after one of the five COVID-19 patients was tested negative. These ... Read More

Breaking News

Government explains $SBD15m NZ funding support

Sibc News - November 12, 2020

Official handover of the $15m funding support to SIG The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has clarified the SBD 15 million dollars COVID-19 ... Read More

Breaking News

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

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.