Category: Religion

SICA on China-Taiwan Saga

Admin - October 10, 2019

The Solomon Islands Christian Association is deeply concerned on the current political impasses which has divided the people of Solomon Islands- the Taiwan/China issue. SICA ... Read More

Makira/Ulawa Province

Ulawa to mark 140th anniversary of Christianity

Admin - July 17, 2018

Clement Marau, Ulawa, Solomon Islands. (From a Photograph by Bishop Montgomery People of Ulawa Island, Makira-Ulawa Province will tomorrow celebrate the 140th anniversary of the ... Read More

Honiara City

Copeland Ministry lights up Honiara

Admin - July 13, 2018

Kenneth Copeland World renowned Evangelist Kenneth Copeland touched down in Solomon Islands yesterday for a three-day crusade in Honiara. Pastor Copeland was accompanied by two ... Read More

Conventions

Honiara runs out of medicine and vaccine

Admin - July 13, 2018

Photo: feverpitched/123RF Honiara residents will expect to pay for their own medicine and vaccines as the clinics in Honiara are running out of drugs. For ... Read More

Makira/Ulawa Province

After 12 years sick and in isolation, this man says ‘faith’ healed him

Admin - November 14, 2017

Victor Mamaru. Photo: John Toki “I was left for dead, people thought I was going to die alone,” Victor Mamaru told SIBC news. “For twelve ... Read More

People

Roviana language bible arrives in Solomon Islands

Admin - April 24, 2017

The Roviana translated Bible. The first sixteen copies of the Roviana-language Bible have arrived in the country. It was history in the making for members ... Read More

Church

THOUSANDS WITNESSED CHURCH OPENINGS

Sibc News - January 2, 2017

Church symbol. Photo credit: commons.wikimedia.org Thousands of people in North Malaita have witnessed the opening and dedication of two newly built church buildings during the ... 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.