Bahamanian Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell has said that he is startled by reports that the US spied on The Bahamas, a member of Caricom.
Reports about the spying on The Bahamas’ mobile phone network emanated from the leaks by former US government employee Edward Snowden and Mitchell became aware of it on May 19th. In a statement on May 20th, Mitchell said that on 19th May, at a routine lunch with US Charge d’Affaires John Dinkelman, the US official raised the possibility of a story being released based on the leaks of Snowden and that they would involve The Bahamas and the use of monitoring apparatus in the northern Caribbean archipelago. Mitchell said that this was a more specific warning than two others that had been earlier given by senior personnel at the US Embassy in Nassau including one by Dinkelman.
The Bahamas Informa-tion Services said that the story became widely available on May 19th and was written by
