Category: Health

COVID-19 EMERGENCY POWERS REGULATIONS 2020

PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY BILL: A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO DEAL WITH PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES

Sibc News - February 4, 2021

Attorney General John Muria Jnr The Public Health Emergency Bill will take a proactive approach in dealing with public health emergencies. Attorney General John Muria ... Read More

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Solomon expected to record highest childbirth in New Year day according to UNICEF

Sibc News - January 3, 2021

Solomon Islands is estimated to have the highest birth of new born babies in the Pacific on New Year's day according to UNICEF. Scoop Independent ... Read More

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WALE CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO EXPLAIN THE WHEREABOUT OF THE $15 MILLION NZ FUNDING SUPPORT

Sibc News - November 12, 2020

Leader of the opposition, Mathew Wale MP Leader of Opposition Matthew Wale calls on the government to explain the whereabouts of the status of the ... Read More

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Government explains $SBD15m NZ funding support

Sibc News - November 12, 2020

Official handover of the $15m funding support to SIG The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) has clarified the SBD 15 million dollars COVID-19 ... Read More

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SOLOMON ISLANDS NURSES ASSOCIATION SUSPENDED

Sibc News - October 30, 2020

The Solomon Islands Nurses Association has this evening suspended as an association. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare made the decision in accordance with the Emergency Powers ... Read More

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Nurses sit in protest update

Sibc News - October 30, 2020

More than 500 nurses from the National Referral Hospital(NRH), HCC and Guadalcanal Province are currently on a sit in protest at the NRH Car park ... Read More

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18 local students in the Philippine tested positive of COVID-19 reverted to negative

Piringi - October 19, 2020

Eighteen of the 22 positive COVID-19 students in the Philippines have now tested negative in their recent tests. The students are now cleared to ... 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.