Digital Forensic and Investigation Unit

Ransomware hits the nation once again, stay vigilant, don’t click on unknown links in emails or texts.

UB users pay special attention to “what you can do “ section. Please report any unusual activities on your devices, ensure your WhatsApp has 2 factor authentication enabled. Don’t click on any links for persons not known to you. Never give out your verification text code to anyone.

Section 7 of The Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act states:
Any person who —
(a) whether by electronic means or otherwise —
(i) procures or attempts to procure any person
under eighteen years of age to have
unlawful sexual in*******se, either in or
outside The Bahamas, or with any other
person;
(ii) procures or attempts to procure any person
to become, either in or outside The
Bahamas, a common pr******te;
(iii) procures or attempts to procure any person
to leave The Bahamas with intent that he
may become an inmate of or frequent a
brothel elsewhere;
(iv) procures or attempts to procure any person
to leave his usual place of abode in The
Bahamas with intent that he may, for the
purposes of prostitution, become an
inmate of or frequent a brothel either in or
outside The Bahamas;
(v) by threats or intimidation, procures or
attempts to procure any person to have
unlawful sexual in*******se either in or
outside The Bahamas;
(vi) by false pretences or false representations,
procures any person to have any unlawful
sexual in*******se either in or outside The
Bahamas; or
(b) applies, administers or causes to be taken by any
person any drug, matter or thing with intent to
stupefy or overpower, so as thereby to enable
any other person to have unlawful sexual
in*******se with such first-mentioned person,
is guilty of an offence and liable to a term of imprisonment
of fifteen years.

Section 5A subsection 1 of the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act states: Any person who — (a) surreptitiously observes including by mechanical or electronic means; or (b) makes a visual recording of a person, in circumstances that give rise to a reasonable expectation of privacy, commits an offence.

(3) Any person who knowing that a recording was obtained by the commission of an offence under subsection (1) prints, copies, publishes, distributes, circulates, sells, advertises or makes available the recording or has the recording in his possession for the purpose of printing, copying, publishing, distributing, circulating, selling or advertising or making it available, commits an offence.

A person who is guilty of an offence under this section is liable on summary conviction to a term of imprisonment of three years.