Category: Parliamentary Opposition

Wale calls on the government to sart looking at postponing the 2023 Pacific Games

Admin - April 7, 2020

Opposition Leader, Mathew Wale Parliamentary Opposition Leader, Hon. Mathew Wale urges the government to start taking pre-emptive planning to consider the possible postponement of the ... Read More

Government

“Traditional governance bill needs more time”

Admin - October 16, 2018

Dr. Joseph Daniel Foukona The conversation on traditional governance is important and should not be rushed into legislation. Dr. Joseph Daniel Foukona from the University ... Read More

Government

OPPOSITION CONCERNED OVER PM’s BAUXITE DEALS

Sibc News - January 17, 2017

The Opposition Leader Hon. Jeremiah Manele. Photo credit: Parliament. The Parliamentary Opposition Group has raised serious concerns over the Prime Minister's alleged personal contact with ... Read More

Government

LEADERS MUST BE HONEST: OPPOSITION LEADER

Sibc News - January 3, 2017

The Opposition Leader Hon. Jeremiah Manele. Photo credit: Parliament. Solomon Islands is stagnant as leaders have lost focus of the future we want for our ... Read More

Parliamentary Opposition

Leader of the Official Opposition group, Jeremiah Manele. Photo credit: SIBC. The Parliamentary Opposition Group has challenged Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare to table the Anti-Corruption ... 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.

Category: Parliamentary Opposition

Wale calls on the government to sart looking at postponing the 2023 Pacific Games

“Traditional governance bill needs more time”

OPPOSITION CONCERNED OVER PM’s BAUXITE DEALS

LEADERS MUST BE HONEST: OPPOSITION LEADER

OPPOSITION AMUSED OF PAP’s SUPPORT FOR PM

OPPOSITION & INDEPENDENT ASSURED OF RSIPF’s READINESS

PRIME MINISTER CHALLENGED TO TABLE ANTI-CORRUPTION BILL