Category: Government

CABINET APPROVED ADDITIONAL MEASURES AGAINST COVID-19

Admin - October 12, 2020

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare delivering his COVID-19 nation wide address Cabinet has approved additional response measures under the current Emergency Regulations in light of the ... Read More

Breaking News

Government announces three-phase lockdown option

Admin - April 7, 2020

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare, yesterday announced a three--phase lockdown option which has been forwarded to Cabinet for approval. A statement from ... Read More

Breaking News

Public service scale down operations

Admin - March 31, 2020

Solomon Islands coat of arms The National Government is scaling down public service operations as of today. A government statement says cabinet has made the ... Read More

Breaking News

Government took serious measures on preventing COVID-19

Admin - March 20, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare The Solomon Islands government has stepped up its preventative measures and preparedness plans against the deadly coronavirus. Following negative ... Read More

Government

TSI on 100 days policies

Admin - August 30, 2019

Transparency Solomon Islands (TSI) has urged the Manasseh Sogavare-led government to inform the country on the progress and achievements of its 100 days policy program. ... Read More

Environment

Water resource management help

Admin - July 18, 2019

The Kongulai water source. Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea stand to benefit more from their diplomatic ties with the United States of America ... Read More

2019 Election

Saitala warns candidates

Admin - July 16, 2019

Mose Saitala. All candidates who contested this year's National General Election have until this Saturday 20th July to file their Statement of Account or face ... 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.