Category: Infrastructure

Makira left out of vital infrastructure development

Admin - July 2, 2020

Men trekking down the River to the coast from an inland Makohigo village, East Makira Constituency. The need to have a proper road infrastructure at ... Read More

Breaking News

“It’s even risky to accessing basic healthcare services”: Beato Mae

Admin - June 29, 2020

"About sixty children from this village have died before reaching the nearest health center". Read More

Australia

Internet cable landing site set

Admin - February 6, 2019

Caretaker Prime Minister Hon. Rick Houenipwela and Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne. Photo: Australian High Commission SI. The million dollars Fibre Optic Submarine Cable System ... Read More

Foreign Relations

Kukum Highway upgrade project successfully completed

Admin - December 5, 2018

Opening of the new Mataniko bridge today. The Japanese government and Solomon Islands government today officially opened the new Mataniko bridge and marked the successful ... Read More

Government

Ulawa roads to be tar sealed soon

Admin - November 21, 2018

Hon. William Bradford Marau, Minister for Commerce, Industry, Labour and Immigration and MP for Ulawa Ugi. Photo credit: GCU. Roads around Ulawa Island in Makira ... Read More

Honiara City

Public urged to look after new infrastructures

Admin - November 15, 2018

The newly completed upper Mataniko bridge. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Development Steven Maesiola has reminded the travelling public of Honiara ... Read More

Government

Funding secured for Honiara road improvement phase two

Admin - November 4, 2018

Men working on the road across from the Central Market in March last year. Solomon Islands has secured funding for phase two of the current ... 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.