Category: Policies

MANGAU SWORN-IN AS NEW POLICE COMMISSIONER

Admin - July 23, 2020

Appointed Police Commissioner, Mostyn Mangau sworn in at the Government House before Governor General Sir David Vunagi|Photo supplied. Mostyn Mangau has been sworn-in as new ... Read More

Breaking News

Solomon Islands maintain its fight against COVID-19

Admin - June 13, 2020

Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Manasseh Sogavare Solomon Islands must not let its guards down despite some COVID-19 affected countries start easing their restriction measures against ... Read More

Policies

100 days policy achieved a lot

Admin - September 24, 2019

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Hon. Manasseh Sogavare The Democratic Coalition Government for Advancement (DCGA) has achieved a lot in the resources sector according to its ... Read More

Policies

Parliament on Special Adjournment

Admin - September 12, 2019

Parliament stand on special adjournment The National Parliament is on Special Adjournment till 18th November 2019. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare explains in Parliament this morning, ... Read More

Policies

Kenilorea Junior on Legal Minimum Wage

Admin - September 6, 2019

United Party President, Peter Kenilorea Junior While acknowledging the 100 percent increase of the previous 4 dollars legal minimum wage rate to 8 dollars this ... Read More

Policies

SOGA ON TAIWAN_CHINA ISSUE

Admin - August 28, 2019

"The ability of the country to cope, with the overbearing economic power, must be properly analysed to be inline with the experiences of developing countries ... Read More

People

Western Province launches first Women’s Policy

Admin - July 19, 2018

Esther Talisuti from Gizo's Women in Business with the women of Simbo in the Western Province. Western Province has yesterday launched its first Women's Empowerment ... 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.