Category: NDMO

False tsunami warning rocks Honiara

Admin - May 21, 2019

There is no tsunami threat for the Solomon Islands. Photo credit: www.adaderana.lk. A false tsunami warning disseminated to members of the public at midday today ... Read More

NDMO

NDMO awaits cyclone Liua assessment reports

Admin - October 3, 2018

Effects of the recent Tropical Cyclone Pam in Temotu Province. Photo: Courtesy of World Vision Solomon Islands. The National Disaster Management Office, NDMO, is waiting ... Read More

Guadalcanal Province

Above normal rainfall predicted for March and May

Admin - February 28, 2018

Rain in South Guadalcanal. Above normal rainfall is predicted for most parts of Solomon Islands for the period from March to May 2018 except for ... Read More

NDMO

NDMO steps in to address Gizo water shortage

Admin - January 19, 2018

A well in the Gizo school teachers' compound Officials from the National Disaster Management Office in Honiara visited Gizo, Western Province to assess the water ... Read More

Disaster

Disaster office determines impact of Guadalcanal floods

Admin - December 6, 2017

A flooded potato garden in Central Guadalcanal The National Disaster Management Office is conducting an initial situational overview of areas affected by the recent heavy ... Read More

NDMO

Reef Islands’ water unfit for use after Tinakula eruption

Admin - November 13, 2017

The Tinakula volcano. Photo: Lata Met Office/Luke Lapoe A water quality test conducted by the National Disaster Management Office showed that water in the Reef ... Read More

Agriculture

NDMO RECEIVED RECOVERY TOOLS FOR MAKIRA QUAKE

Sibc News - January 14, 2017

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry ... 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.