**This must be done annually, within three months after the end of each year.**

Or after the filing of financial declarations by mps, whichever comes later.

Right on.

I foresee a huge business in encrypted communications with anonymous proxies in the Bahamas. But then again, what's new. The Bahamas has been the spy testing ground for the US where all cellphone conversations were (are?) being captured.

make this law applicable retroactively and lock up the waste basket man.

am not too worried in a country that can't even get traffic lights to work.

Lets see if they can intercept this one... FU PLP right in your collective arshole!!!!

Comrades! US Intelligence have long recorded every single telephone call (personal & business) originating out of or coming to the Bahamaland - including emails and other forms communications. I'd suspect the Chinese may be doing the same if they wanted to. We are talking about the recording of millions and millions of telephone calls - from cheating spouses calls to business dealings - and the politicians business and private dealings included.

These corrupt bastards are doing this now with NIA

For business, I speak only on a landline or by encrypted email. I turn my cell phone off at the airport and whilst in the vicinity of the Chinese and American embassies. Many a time, I have had to drive to Million Air to meet a private jet. A personal would step off and give me printed portfolio instructions. The beneficial owner did not trust electronic transmission by any means.

Did the Tribune read this Bill? Impossible, since the most serious, critical and most controversial aspects thereof are not even mentioned.

The post office can't seem to ever get me mail - maybe the government can?

Although when it *does* arrive, it's usually past three months after it was sent... would the time period they're allowed to monitor it for have expired before it even gets to me.

That would be an interesting legal battle!

While I was at a foreign university, for the first year, just to get acclimatized to the country, I boarded with a couple. We were connected by the student office. The woman is a remarkable woman. She is a student mentor, a member of the board of governors, and she lives within 10 minutes of the main campus. She calls me her second son, or her Bahamian son. She recently stopped sending me birthday cards through the post because they were always three months late, or they never came at all. Funny how the Bahamas post office knew when she put in a $20 or $50 dollar bill. Those ones never came.

Not like they don't already have phones tapped and 👂 listening in and recording your conversations.

Lot of these legislations are being forced on this country by the US and other foreign agencies. Whilst it may have the good intentions of protecting innocents and preventing terrorism and other acts of crime, the worry is when it is abused and misused against law abiding citizens. A major concern is federal agencies in the US now using social media to collect information on and build files on individuals. Even potential employers now search social media to gather information on job applicants. So you have to be careful what you post or allow other people to share with you.

Yes, they do John! Lot's of people have loss their jobs, potential jobs, spouses because of something they posted on social media.

This is the Bahamas man, who cares? be ready for 5 more years of the Fuhrer Christie and his 32,000 jobs.

Ya'll really trust the crooked plp to bring this type of legislation to the hoa? We haven't legalize the NIA yet.

The reason why Christie and Nottage and Greenslade goes quite when certain crimes are committed in this country is because they know these crimes are'imported.' How so? You may ask when it is (mostly) BAhamians killing Bahamians. But, unfortunately, it is also black men killing black men. A major phoenomen in the USA. A silent form of genocide. Population control even.

Test the waters: say some outrageous things about outrageous people in your conversations. Then watch the reactions and the responses. Then you know if they tapping your shyt

Beginning of the end!!

Everything will be "national security". Calling a radio talk show, participating in a protest march, commenting on the tribune website. Everything. How did these people all turn into megalomaniacs in five years?????

All of their legal documents are written this way. The Pointe Heads of agreement for example is laughable, the ratio of Bahamian to Chinese workers is70/30 but can be changed "if needed". What???? Seems like the need covers the entire project.

Is this what the PLP's idea of Freedom of Information Act means.

Comrades! If "any" government wants a "snooper's bill" passed - let it include a clear Simple Simon to read and understand enforceable provision that the policeman's would not be able to access the content of "communications" without a warrant signed by a senior judge and such that it is a one time authorization and valued only if carried out and completed within (60) days of the warrant signing.
Although, I don't remember reading that emails were behind the 16 murders so far for 2017 - so shouldn't the government be more focused on our local wannabe's homegrown punk killers? I'm just prioritizing a serious murderous point - okay!

Our Attorney General, the corrupt evil Wicked Witch (Allyson Maynard-Gibson), and our National Security Minister, the sleepy moronic pistol packing B J Nottage, would undoubtedly hold the view that all of us posting to this website are guilty of subversive bahaviour. I suspect if such unconstitutional legislation were ever enacted it would not be too long before the likes of Maynard-Gibson and Nottage seek to shut down the voice of the free press in our country, as well as the other "subversive" media outlets like radio and TV. And to think that other Fred (Fweddy Boy Michell) got all hot and bothered a few years back when he learned that the U.S. National Security Agency was secretly recording all voice and internet communications to, from and within our country. What a joke!

In order to keep your phone calls and messages private. Call and message on WhatsApp. It features end-to-end encryption that the Bahamas government won't be able to break. Take steps to protect yourself because you government won't protect you, they are the ones coming for you.

lol yall is a bunch of sheeps anything this gov say yall go with ,no dam balls