Category: Crime

Six Solomon Islands students in Philippines tested positive of COVID-19

Admin - September 13, 2020

Six Solomon Islands Students studying in the Philippines were tested positive of Coronavirus (COVID-19). The six were among 131 students tested as part of the ... Read More

Breaking News

Man arrested following daughter’s death

Admin - December 29, 2019

Police have arrested a 53-year-old man following the death of his 10-year-old daughter in Guadalcanal Province. The police media Unit confirms the man was arrested ... Read More

2019 Election

29 petition cases filed

Admin - May 21, 2019

National Parliament. The High Court has received a total of twenty nine petition cases as deadline to file election petitions closed at 3:30pm yesterday afternoon. ... Read More

Crime

Mother charged for concealing birth

Admin - January 4, 2019

RSIPF Logo. The death of a newborn baby in Ranongga area, Western Province has sparked police investigations. Police Commissioner, Matthew Varley told his first weekly ... Read More

Crime

Alleged suicide cases alarm Mbalasuna community

Admin - December 4, 2018

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force badge. Photo: RSIPF Media Five reported cases of alleged suicide at Mbalasuna, East Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands within a ... Read More

Crime

‘Join the Campaign’: Police Commissioner calls on men

Admin - November 28, 2018

Commissioner Varley joins campaigners against violence against women and girls. Commissioner of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, RSIPF, Matthew Varley calls on all men ... Read More

Crime

Kwaso Action Plan activated

Admin - November 11, 2018

RSIPF Officers with some of the Kwaso manufacture equipment seized during raids. Photo credit: RSIPF. In an attempt to reduce the harm that the illicit ... 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.