Category: Projects

International Cable system final splice

Admin - October 1, 2019

Photo: Coral Sea Cable System The final splice of the Coral Sea Cable System between Australia, Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has been completed ... Read More

Agriculture

First ever pineapple factory planned for Bina Harbor

Admin - May 1, 2018

Pineapples a a market in the Solomon Islands. Photo: Liz harlin, Undersea productions. Constituents from Bina Harbor, West Kwaio, Malaita Province will soon benefit from ... Read More

ADB

First ever ‘Public Enterprise Perfomance Results’ website launched

Admin - February 19, 2018

ADB Solomon Islands Unit head, Amila Salgado, and Ministry of Finance and Treasury permanent secretary Harry Kuma, browsing through the website.Photo: Lowen Sei. The Solomon ... Read More

Government

KUKUM HIGHWAY UPGRADE ON SCHEDULE: MID

Sibc News - January 18, 2017

Vehicles along the Kukum Highway. Photo credit: SIBC. The Kukum Highway road upgrade project is on schedule, says the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of ... Read More

Electricity and Power Energy

SOLOMON ISLANDS TO RECEIVE ENERGY FUNDING

Sibc News - January 16, 2017

Solomon Islands map. Photo credit: www.smartraveller.gov.au Solomon Islands is among four recipients of funding for transformative, replicable and innovative renewable energy projects through the International ... Read More

Communication

NEGOTIATIONS WITH HUAWEI TO START

Sibc News - January 11, 2017

Huawei logo. Photo credit: The Register. Negotiation with the world's largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer Huawei, for the implementation of the Solomon Islands submarine cable project ... Read More

Development

MANAOBA AIRPORT STILL PENDING: PM SOGAVARE

Sibc News - January 8, 2017

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare making his speech. Photo credit: SIBC stringer John Toki. Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare has said the Manaoba Airport project is yet ... 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.