Category: Food Security

‘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

Climate Change

Climate refugees; our sinking phenomenon

Admin - September 11, 2018

Part of the graveyard in Luaniua washed away by coastline intrusion. For many people around the world, the image of the Pacific is a ... Read More

Agriculture

Former builder turns to commercial tilapia farming

Admin - June 14, 2018

Jimmy Sigepitu "I started with only four fish and now, I have around a thousand." Situated just outside the Western Provincial capital Gizo is ... Read More

Food Security

Bad weather set to cause food shortage in Malaita

Admin - September 4, 2017

A food shortage could be on the way in one area of Malaita. Continuous wet weather in West Are'are, Malaita Province, is damaging crops causing ... Read More

Children's Issues

Nearly half of Solomon Islands children under five stunted

Admin - June 6, 2017

Poor nutrition in young children is at an alarming rate in the country. Poor nutritional intake by children resulting in stunting remains one of the ... Read More

Festivals

KODILI FESTIVAL GOERS CAUTIONED OF FOOD POISONING

Sibc News - September 28, 2016

Buala, Isabel Province. Photo credit: Panoramio. Health authorities in Buala, Isabel province are advising people at the Kodili Trade and Cultural Festival to be cautious ... Read More

Festivals

COMMUNITY LEADER WANTS NCDs ADDRESSED

Sibc News - August 31, 2016

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.