Category: Gender

Women must step up : Clark

Admin - August 21, 2018

Helen Clark during the Solomon Islands National Women’s Leadership workshop in Honiara today. Photo: UNDP. Society needs women in decision-making, says the visiting former New ... Read More

Gender

The stories behind the stalls

Admin - June 25, 2018

Elna Sisimia left, with her stall Day after day they sit under their colored umbrellas with their little tables from morning until late in the ... Read More

Gender

49 percent of new RSIPF officers are female

Admin - August 18, 2017

Police Minister, Hon Moses Garu inspecting the guard of honour. Photo: RSIPF The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force welcomed 69 officers into its ranks at a ... Read More

Gender

Young Queen Leader’s Awardee Meets Her Majesty, the Queen

Admin - July 11, 2017

Karrie receiving her award from Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth . It was a once-in-a-life time opportunity for young Karrie Jionisi to met Her Majesty, Queen ... Read More

Abuses

STUDENTS RECEIVED LAPTOPS FOR POSTER COMPETITION

Sibc News - September 8, 2016

Abuses

FAMILY VIOLENCE & GENDER INEQUALITY RELATIONS

Sibc News - April 29, 2016

Permanent Secretary Ethel Sigimanu. Photo credit: SIBC. Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs, Ethel Sigimanu says family violence cannot ... Read More

Church

CHURCHES ENCOURAGED TO LEAD EQUITABLE RELATIONS

Sibc News - April 24, 2016

Permanent Secretary Ethel Sigimanu. Photo credit: pacwip. Faith and gender specialist, Maclean Dlodlo, is encouraging church leaders to take the lead in promoting equitable relations ... 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.