Category: Police

YOUNG MAN BELEIVED TO BE INSANE ARRESTED FOR DOUBLE MURDER

Sibc News - February 22, 2015

A Royal Solomon Islands Police Force cap. Photo credit: SIBC. A young man from Russell Islands, believed to be mentally ill, has been arrested for ... Read More

Communities

POLICE REARMAMENT CONSULTATIONS RESUMED FOR 2015

Sibc News - February 21, 2015

Manelusi present footballs to Chief Pitu. Photo credit: RAMSI/RSIPF. Community consultations regarding the limited rearmament of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) have resumed ... Read More

Communities

MALU’U POLICE COMMENDED FOR SWIFT RESPONSES TO CRIME

Sibc News - February 21, 2015

A Royal Solomon Islands Police Force cap. Photo credit: SIBC. Ofu community leaders in North Malaita have acknowledged the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force at ... Read More

Guadalcanal Province

ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS DEPLOYED TO HANDLE TETERE SITUATION

Sibc News - February 17, 2015

Members of the RSIPF Police Response Team. Photo credit: www.defence.gov.au The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIFP) had to deploy additional officers to Tetere Police ... Read More

Crime

SENIOR POLICE OFFICER SUSPENDED OVER MOTOR ACCIDENT

Sibc News - February 16, 2015

A Royal Solomon Islands Police Force cap. Photo: SIBC. The office of the Police Commissioner has suspended a senior police officer. A police statement today ... Read More

Communities

TETERE POLICE STATION ATTACKED BY ANGRY COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Sibc News - February 16, 2015

RSIPF logo. Photo credit: SIBC. In a related Police story, Tetere Police station on the Guadalcanal Plains came under attack from surrounding communities today after ... Read More

Communities

POLICE DEMANDED TO EXPLAIN CAUSE OF DEATH OF VILLAGE LAD

Sibc News - February 16, 2015

A Royal Solomon Islands Police Force cap. Photo credit: SIBC. An update just came to hand from the police, a group of almost 100 frustrated ... 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.