Category: Market

HCC warns illegal market vendors

Admin - April 2, 2020

Honiara City Clerk Rence Sore|Photo suplied The Honiara City Clerk, Rence Sore, urges all Honiara residents to respect the ban currently imposed on all illegal ... Read More

Agriculture

Gov’t is working on managing livelihood issues during ‘State of emergency’ period

Admin - April 1, 2020

Honiara central market The National Government through its Livelihood Sector Committee is working to ensure people's livelihood is properly managed following the declaration of emergency ... Read More

Honiara City

Honiara Central Market introduces early closing time

Admin - March 7, 2018

The Honiara Central Market. Photo: SIBC The main entrance to the Honiara Central Market will now close at 6pm. Honiara City Council Communications said closing ... Read More

Market

Gizo market vendors relocate ahead of renovation

Admin - January 9, 2018

The bonebone fish cookers of Gizo Market In preparation for the renovation of the market in Gizo, Western Province, some vendors will sell their goods at a ... Read More

Agriculture

Solomons Gold Chocolate gets top award

Admin - July 13, 2017

Product sample from Solomons Gold chocolate. The 'Solomons Gold' chocolate has received a Silver Award at the prestigious Academy of Chocolate Awards 2017 in London. ... Read More

Exports

GOV’T EYES GINGER MARKET IN CANADA

Sibc News - January 4, 2017

Ginger roots. Photo credit: South Africa News. The Government is eyeing the ginger market in Canada. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare said the agriculture sector is ... Read More

Infrastructure

NEW MARKET HOUSE FOR JONES ADVENTIST COLLEGE

Sibc News - August 4, 2016

Food varieties sold at markets. Photo credit: SIBC. The Jones Adventist College in North Vella Lavella has a new market house. The market house was ... 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.