Category: Investment

‘We locals can do it’: Wakio

Admin - August 20, 2018

Hudson Wakio In a country where locals struggle to thrive in the business world, Hudson Wakio managing director of Advance Technology Limited, stands out as ... Read More

ADB

First ever ‘Public Enterprise Perfomance Results’ website launched

Admin - February 19, 2018

ADB Solomon Islands Unit head, Amila Salgado, and Ministry of Finance and Treasury permanent secretary Harry Kuma, browsing through the website.Photo: Lowen Sei. The Solomon ... Read More

Investment

RESOURCE OWNERS SUPPORTED FSII CALL ON PM

Sibc News - January 22, 2017

A map of Rennell Bellona. Photo credit: SIBC. A task force representing the resource owners of West Rennell has supported calls for the Prime Minister ... Read More

Development

SOUND INVESTMENT VITAL FOR DEVELOPMENT: FIULAUA

Sibc News - January 18, 2017

Chairperson of Government Caucus, Hon. Jackson Fiulaua. Photo credit: SI Parliament. The Chairman of the Government Caucus and Member of Parliament for Central Kwara'ae, Jackson ... Read More

Communication

NEGOTIATIONS WITH HUAWEI TO START

Sibc News - January 11, 2017

Huawei logo. Photo credit: The Register. Negotiation with the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei, for the implementation of the Solomon Islands submarine cable project ... Read More

Exports

LEGISLATION DEPRIVED BILLIONS, A PAP FINDING REVEALED

Sibc News - October 24, 2016

Guadalcanal Province

GUADALCANAL PROVINCE CRACK DOWN ON ILLEGAL LOGGERS

Sibc News - August 18, 2016

Logging in the Solomon Islands. Photo credit: SIBC. The Guadalcanal Provincial Government is taking steps to crack down illegal logging operation in the province. Guadalcanal ... 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.