JAMAICA: Move to tackle cybercrimes – Hackers got Golding

Dominica News Online - Sunday, February 14th, 2010 at 11:47 AM
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Prime Minister Bruce Golding. * Photo credit: Jamaica Gleaner

Prime Minister Bruce Golding has good enough reasons to support the Cybercrimes Bill after a recent incident left him holding thousands of US dollars in credit-card debt.

Golding told fellow parliamentarians he had the shock of his life after his bank told him that thousands of US dollars in purchases were made on his Jamaican-issued credit-card account during a two-day spending spree.

Golding, who had not travelled outside Jamaica in months, said his bank advised him that the money was used to buy several plane tickets.

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