Category: Laws

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

Breaking News

Chief Justice call for independent government remuneration tribunal

Sibc News - January 21, 2021

Solomon Islands Chief Justice Sir Albert Palmer Chief Justice Albert Palmer calls for the urgent set up of an independent Government Remuneration Tribunal by legislation ... Read More

Breaking News

NEW EDUCATION BILL TO GO BEFORE PARLIAMENT

Sibc News - January 7, 2021

High level Education delegation including the Education Minister, Hon. Lannelle Tanagada and her permanent Secretary Dr. Franco Roddie. The new Education bill is expected to ... Read More

Accessories

WALE QUESTIONED MOVE TO SACK MEWA FROM FORESTRY PORTFOLIO

Sibc News - December 21, 2020

Opposition Leader Mathew Wale Opposition Leader, Mathew Wale calls on the Prime Minister to explain the reasons ... Read More

Church

SIEC Prepares for by-elections

Admin - September 14, 2020

Preparations are well underway for the North East Guadalcanal and Central Honiara constituencies by-election later this year. Chief Electoral Officer, Jane Waetara said, the Solomon ... Read More

Court

Panga: ‘A freeman’

Admin - September 19, 2019

Former Guadalcanal Premier, Steven Panga. Former Premier of Guadalcanal Province, Stephen Panga has worked out of the Honiara Central Magistrates Court a free man this ... 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.