Category: Police

2019 Election

Maelanga calls for peace

Admin - April 25, 2019

East Malaita Constituency MP, Manasseh Maelanga. The member of parliament for East Malaita and one of the country's prominent politician has called for calmness and ... Read More

2019 Election

Protests erupt as Sogavare is elected as Prime Minister

Admin - April 24, 2019

Sogavare speaking outside parliament today. Solomon Islands has a new Prime Minister-elect and he is Honourable Manasseh Damukana Sogavare. Mr. Sogavare was elected in a ... Read More

2019 Election

Kopu winched off Lomlom, Chiefs unhappy

Admin - April 22, 2019

Dudley Kopu, MP elect for Temotu Pele. Photo credit: GCU. Chiefs and landowning groups of Lomlom airstrip in Temotu Province are unhappy that an unscheduled ... Read More

2019 Election

Social media users warned

Admin - April 19, 2019

Police are monitoring online and social media postings ahead of the election of the country's Prime Minister next week. Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Commissioner ... Read More

2019 Election

Police bans proposed demonstration

Admin - April 17, 2019

Acting Supervising commissioner Mr Gabriel Manelusi . To ensure public safety, the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) will not permit any application for a ... Read More

2019 Election

190 NGE incident reports

Admin - April 11, 2019

Police Commissioner Matthew Varley. Police has received a total of 190 incident reports related to the recent National General Elections. Police Commissioner Matthew Varley says ... Read More

2019 Election

All set for polling day

Admin - April 2, 2019

A mother with the national flag. All election materials for tomorrow's polling day have now arrived safely at their respective polling stations across the country. ... 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.