Category: Disaster

Gold Ridge open pit mine turns into an underground mine

Sibc News - February 18, 2021

Gold Ridge open pit mine The Gold Ridge Mining operations has turned from an open pit mine to an underground mining. This came after last ... Read More

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Graciosa Bay oil spill deliberately done, assessment reveled

Sibc News - February 16, 2021

MV Quebec anchored at Graciosa Bay The Solomon Islands Maritime Authority revealed they have concrete evidence that the oil spill in Graciosa Bay in Temotu ... Read More

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Graciousa Bay oil spill potentially disastrous

Sibc News - February 5, 2021

MV Quebec anchored offshore the Graciousa Bay, Temotu Province A foreign bulk carrier MV QUEBEC arrived in the country late last month had spilled tons ... Read More

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USD$1 Million Disaster Risk Recuction project for Malaita and Guadalcanal launched

Sibc News - January 26, 2021

Cutting the cake to launch the project The USAID Funded SBD $8 million Disaster Risk Reduction project for Malaita and Guadalcanal provinces will be implemented ... Read More

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OUR LAST SOIL POCKETS PART II _TAX EXEMPTION

Sibc News - December 3, 2020

-More than hundred shipment of bauxite mining shipped out -The country still benefiting from the Rennel Mining (CBSI) -West Rennell Mining Tenement deregistered from APID ... Read More

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TAINAREHO 1 OWNER AND MASTER ALLEGEDLY VIOLATED SHIPPING ACT 1988

Admin - October 7, 2020

The ill fated MV Taimareho 1 in its glory days The Owner and Master of Taimareho 1 have allegedly violated certain sections of the country's ... Read More

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Government to ratify the Bunkers Convention

Admin - August 11, 2020

Minister for Environment and Climate Change, Dr. Culvic Togamana The government has approved the ratification of the Bunkers Convention recently The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ... 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.