Category: Western Province

Plasticwise Gizo wins Commonwealth award

Admin - February 19, 2019

Plasticwise Gizo members. Photo: Plasticwise Gizo Facebook page. Plasticwise Gizo has won two prizes in the recent Commonwealth Litter Programme, CLiP, The Pacific Litter challenge. ... Read More

Elections

Western Province MPAs resign to contest NGE

Admin - February 12, 2019

George Solingi-Lilo. Photo: Island Sun. Two Western Provincial Members have resigned to contest the National General Elections. Ward Member for Noro Billy Veo and ward ... Read More

Laws

Four Maleai robbery suspects identified

Admin - February 12, 2019

Royal Solomon Islands Police Force badge. Photo: RSIPF Media Investigators of the Royal Solomon Police Force have identified four suspects so far in relation to ... Read More

Government

Bougainvilleans raid Maleai, Shortlands

Admin - February 6, 2019

A village in the Shortland Islands. Residents of Maleai village, Shortland islands were terrorized early this morning after armed men believed to be from Bougainville ... Read More

Police

Search for missing men continues

Admin - January 7, 2019

A typical banana boat in the Solomon Islands Police in Gizo, Western Province are still searching for three men who have gone missing since the ... Read More

People

Ministry of Culture and Tourism urged to clarify stand on war relics

Admin - January 4, 2019

WW2 Japanese aircraft wrecks salvaged at Balalae Shortland islands. The Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Director of Culture have been urged to clarify ... Read More

Isabel Province

Bad weather claims one life and seven missing

Admin - January 2, 2019

Police say the Out Board Motor driven canoe was travelling from Noro to Seghe with eight people on board. Photo: CNC3 Police this afternoon have ... 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.