Category: Fisheries

Pacific/UK talks on ocean and climate change action

Admin - September 3, 2020

Climate action and oceans realities in the Pacific Islands are the focus of the virtual tour by the United Kingdom’s Minister for Pacific and the ... Read More

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FFA’s Ministerial virtual meeting tomorrow

Admin - August 5, 2020

Manumatavai-Tupou-Roosen| Photo Supplied The Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial teleconference meeting is due to be held tomorrow, (Thursday 06/08/2020). Top of the agendas is the impacts ... Read More

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“Fisheries sector will put our economy back on track”: Lilo

Admin - July 16, 2020

Former Solomon Islands Prime Minister Gordon Darcy Lilo|Photo by SIBC TV Fisheries sector should be prioritized to sustain the country’s shrinking economy says local ... Read More

Fisheries

Beche-de-mer ban extended

Admin - May 3, 2019

Dried beche-de-mer The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has extended the proposed ban on harvesting in the country from 30 April to 31 May, ... Read More

Fisheries

‘Sustaining tuna stocks remains a challenge’: Dr. Aqorau

Admin - November 11, 2018

Dr Transform Aqorau was former Chief Executive Officer of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement in Majuro, Marshall Islands. Solomon Islands has one of the ... Read More

Fisheries

Tambea has new Fisheries Center

Admin - November 7, 2018

Solomon Islands fishermen with their catch. A new Fisheries Centre is now open at Tambea, Saghalu ward in North-West Guadalcanal. Fishermen in and around Tambea ... Read More

Fisheries

Government lifts beche-de-mer ban

Admin - November 1, 2018

Dried beche-de-mer The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has announced, it is lifting the beche-de-mer ban this month. Director Fisheries Edward Honiwala said 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.