Category: Unionism

Solomon Islands

UNION AGREED TO LEAD CAMPAIGN AGAINST TAX-FREE AWARDS

Sibc News - October 19, 2016

Solomon Islands

TEACHER’s CREDIT UNION CALLED ON TO BE FAIR

Sibc News - July 28, 2015

Teaching. Photo credit: www.progressive-charlestown.com A concerned Teacher from Verahue Primary School, West Guadalcanal is calling on the Solomon Islands National Teacher's Credit Union to be ... Read More

Industrial Actions

ONLY FEW S.I.P.A WORKERS ARE RESISTANT TO CHANGE: COLIN YOW

Sibc News - March 28, 2015

The Solomon Islands Ports Authority. Photo credit: http://www.sipa.com.sb Chief Executive Officer of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) Colin Yow said he believes only a ... Read More

People

PORTS C.E.O DESCRIBED W.U.S.I’s STRIKE NOTICE AS FALSE

Sibc News - March 19, 2015

The Solomon Islands Ports Authority. Photo credit: SIPA. Chief Executive Officer of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) Collin Yow has described a strike notice ... Read More

SIPA

W.U.S.I DISASSOCIATES ITSELF FROM DEATH THREATS AGAINST YOW

Sibc News - March 18, 2015

Fist a sign of Unionism. Photo credit: www.southernstudies.org The Workers Union of Solomon Islands (WUSI) has disassociated itself from threats made against the CEO for ... Read More

Honiara City

PORTS C.E.O CONDEMNED ACCUSATIONS

Sibc News - March 18, 2015

The Solomon Islands Ports Authority. Photo credit: http://www.sipa.com.sb/ Chief Executive Officer of the Solomon Islands Ports Authority (SIPA) Collin Yow has condemned accusations levelled against ... Read More

SIPA

W.U.S.I PLEDGED TO COOPERATE WITH NEW PORTS C.E.O

Sibc News - February 8, 2015

The Honiara Port. Photo credit: www.amstec.com.au The Workers Union of Solomon Islands (WUSI) has pledged to work in close cooperation with the new Chief Executive ... 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.