Category: Repatriation

Missing fishermen from Temotu repatriated from Vanuatu

Sibc News - March 19, 2021

Five fishermen from Temotu Province who drifted for 24 nights at sea finally repatriated to Honiara today via the Australian Royal Airforce. The men from ... Read More

Breaking News

SIX LOCAL STUDENTS MISSED OUT TO BOARD TODAY’S REPATRIATION FLIGHT FROM. PHILIPPINE

Sibc News - December 9, 2020

Solomon Airlines aircraft Six local students studying in the Philippines have failed to board the government’s repatriation flight scheduled for today. The flight was expected ... Read More

Breaking News

Solomon Islands recorded second COVID-19 case: Patient not sick

Admin - October 11, 2020

Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare delivering his special address Solomon Islands have recorded its second case of COVID-19. The second COVID-19 patient is a student repatriated ... Read More

Breaking News

Solomon Islands lots it’s COVID-19 free status

Admin - October 4, 2020

“It pains me to say that we have lost our COVID-19 free status.” Read More

Breaking News

Recipient of transferred items at the Pacific Casino Hotel quarantined

Admin - September 9, 2020

A person who came into contact with the transferred items at the Pacific Casino quarantine center has been tested for COVID-19 and put under a ... Read More

Airlines

Repatriation of stranded nationals abroad will start next week

Admin - May 21, 2020

News Solomon Airline Airbus landing Solomon Airlines will take a special repatriation flight from Brisbane to Honiara, Tuesday next week. The national carrier confirmed in ... 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.