Category: Honiara City

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

Healthcare

Bottled water products safe : HCC

Admin - August 9, 2019

Health Division of the Honiara City Council has quickly condemned media reports which claimed most bottled water products sold by shops are not safe ... Read More

Government

Wale petition case struck out

Admin - July 12, 2019

Hon. Matthew Wale. Photo: Solomon Star. The High Court today struck out the petition case filed against the Leader of Opposition Group in Parliament Hon ... Read More

Honiara City

Boat users urged to take extra precaution

Admin - July 11, 2019

The sunken ray boat between Ngella and Honiara. Photo: RSIPF. Police are again calling on people to take extra precaution when travelling at sea as ... Read More

Australia

Cable work set to commence

Admin - July 10, 2019

Workers preparing for the cable work in Honiara. Photo: Solomon Islands Submarine Cable Company. The Australian and Solomon Islands' Governments are pleased to announce, the ... Read More

Government

National Stadium construction MOU signed

Admin - July 10, 2019

Photo: SBM. A Memorandum of Understanding for the construction of the National Stadium for the 2023 Pacific Games was signed yesterday. A Government statement confirmed, ... Read More

2019 Election

Wale calls on Govt to fix Honiara water issue

Admin - July 9, 2019

Honourable Matthew Cooper Wale. Photo credit: Solomon Islands Parliament. It is totally unacceptable that the capital city of a country should go without water for ... 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.