Category: Maritime

GOVERNMENT PURSUES COMPENSATION CLAIMS FOR OIL SPILLS AS CONVENTION CAME INTO FORCE

Sibc News - February 25, 2021

Solomon Trader ran aground in Kangava bay, Rennell Atoll The government is in a process of pursuing owners and insurers for compensation arising from pollution ... Read More

Breaking News

CAPTAINS OF DETAINED VESSELS FACES SUSPENSION

Sibc News - January 6, 2021

Loading of building materials during the festive season. About ten ships were detained during the festive season Operation Safe Boat. Director of the Solomon Islands ... 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

Environment

Oil Spill ravages Namuga shoreline

Admin - June 18, 2019

MV Takana. Photo: James Mageme. The oil spill from MV Takana at Namuga in Makria Ulawa Province will likely worsen tourism opportunity in the area, ... Read More

Disaster

Govt wants wrecked vessel removed

Admin - March 1, 2019

The Wrecked Solomon Trader. Photo: Australian High Commission. The Solomon Islands Government recommends, MV Solomon Trader's owner, King Trader Limited (South Express Limited) removes its ... Read More

Australia

New wharf for new patrol boats

Admin - January 26, 2019

Aola maritime patrol base, Honiara. The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Marine Division is proposing an upgrade of the Aola base at Point Cruz to ... Read More

Maritime

Port Development? Rundown Island Jetty still in use

Admin - December 16, 2018

A vessel using the refueling jetty. While the Solomon Islands Ports Authority SIPA mission statement emphasizes that it strives to provide services for customers, its ... 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.