Category: Education

NEW EDUCATION BILL TO GO BEFORE PARLIAMENT

Sibc News - January 7, 2021

High level Education delegation including the Education Minister, Hon. Lannelle Tanagada and her permanent Secretary Dr. Franco Roddie. The new Education bill is expected to ... Read More

Breaking News

SIG SCHOLARSHIP ONLINE APPLICATION PLATFORM LAUNCHES

Sibc News - December 4, 2020

From Left to right, Minister of Education, Hon. Lanelle Tanangada, Permanent Secretary Dr. Franco Roddie , and SITESA CEO Constance Nasi cutting the scholarship cake. ... Read More

Breaking News

Examination classes to resume school next week

Admin - April 19, 2020

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Franco Roddie Examination classes in schools throughout the country are called on to resume classes next week, ... Read More

Breaking News

All schools across the country to close down

Admin - March 31, 2020

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr. Franco. Roddie All schools throughout the country has been instructed to close operations by the Ministry of ... Read More

Breaking News

Schools early closure effect as of today

Admin - March 20, 2020

Vura Community High School students Photo: Supplied The Ministry of Education and Human Resources Development has today acted on the Prime Minister's nationwide call for ... Read More

Education

Anglican schools bans processed food

Admin - May 15, 2019

The Anglican Church of Melanesia (ACOM) Education Authority will soon ban the sale of all sugary and oily foods from its schools in the country. ... Read More

Corruption

Scholarship scandal

Admin - February 20, 2019

The 2019 SIG Scholarship form. Solomon Islands Government Scholarships may have been secretly sold to certain members of the public. It is believed, 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.