Category: Currency

CBSI warn of fake bank notes

Admin - November 19, 2018

Solomon Islands currency notes. The Central Bank of Solomon Islands has flagged the augment of counterfeit bank notes closer to the festive season. CBSI's Currency ... Read More

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New $5 banknote to be introduced next year

Admin - July 17, 2018

The current five dollar note. The Central Bank of Solomon Islands will introduce a new five dollar note, part of its ongoing reforms ... Read More

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New $40 banknote launched

Admin - July 5, 2018

Ministry of Finance PS Mr Harry Kuma , and CBSI Governor Mr Denton Rarawa shows the new notes and coins. Photo: CBSI. The Central Bank ... Read More

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New $40 note and $2 coin to Commemorate the country’s 40th independence anniversary

Admin - May 15, 2018

Solomon Islands currency notes. The Central Bank of Solomon Islands is preparing to launch a new forty dollar note and a colored two dollar coin ... Read More

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New $10 note to be introduced this week

Admin - November 27, 2017

The CBSI headquarters in Honiara The Central Bank of Solomon Islands will launch a new $10 legal tender banknote this week. The central bank's Public ... Read More

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FAKE $50 NOTE DISCOVERED AT KODILI FESTIVAL

Sibc News - October 2, 2016

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C.B.S.I LAUNCHES NEW $100 BILL

Sibc News - April 10, 2015

The new $100 Bill. Photo credit: SIBC. The Central Bank of Solomon Islands (CBSI) launches its new $100 bill today. CBSI explains, the new note ... 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.