Report lists benefits of a casino for BDA
(BERMUDA) -- Casino gaming would attract tourists, promote development, create jobs and generate millions of dollars in tax revenue, according to a report on the pros and cons of gambling in Bermuda.
Invitation goes out to run new casino
(UK) -- GAMBLING bosses are being invited to apply for a licence to run Scarborough's new casino. Scarborough is one of eight local authorities in the UK to be granted the "small casino" licence – the others include Luton, Swansea, Torbay and Wolverhampton.
Japanese gaming to profit from child subsidies
(JAPAN) -- Japan's gambling industry is expected to be an unlikely beneficiary of a national child subsidy scheme, which aims to shower parents with cash and encourage young couples to start families.
Rank Group call for overhaul of gambling tax
(UK) -- The well documented battle between the offline bingo industry and the Treasury regarding the duty paid by bingo companies looks set to be reignited, with industry wide support as one of the UK’s biggest gaming companies called for a radical overhaul of the tax system.
As Casino Opens, Watch for Its Social Impact Begins
(SINGAPORE) -- An unfamiliar sight in Singapore – that of vehicles with foreign licence plates filling the car park – meets visitors at the basement of the city-state’s first casino, which opened nearly a month ago.
Therapists needed to help gambling addicts
(BERMUDA) -- Bermuda would have to hire seven people to deal with addictions if a gaming bill passed. Preston Swan, acting director of quality and risk management at the Bermuda Hospitals Board, estimated over half a million dollars would have to be spent on staff to help people deal with their gambling problems.
Gambler hurled trolley at Swansea casino roulette table
(UK) -- A GAMBLER threw a trolley at a city casino roulette wheel in a temper — allegedly causing more than £6,000 worth of damage. The trouble brewed at Aspers in Wind Street when Neil Philippart, of Burrows Road, Swansea lost a £100 gambling chip.
So who would run a casino here?
(BERMUDA) -- Major international chains like Las Vegas Sands and Trump Entertainment Resorts should be able to bid to open a casino in Bermuda.
Aristocrat revamps board
(AUSTRALIA) -- IN ITS latest effort to turn around flagging results, gambling machine maker Aristocrat Leisure has announced a board revamp and will seek directors who can offer experience in the US market.
Lottery deemed a bad idea for Bermuda
(BERMUDA) -- A lottery has been ruled out for Bermuda as it would end up being a tax on the island's poor and do little to boost tourist arrivals. The Green Paper on Gaming contained reports by research company Innovation and a local Task Force on Gaming.
Macau Venetian house of cards sets new record
(MACAU) -- Crowds of baccarat-obsessed Chinese punters crammed inside the world's largest casino, the Venetian Macau, witnessed on Wednesday the mega-casino's latest claim to fame as the world's largest "house of cards".
Opposition to gambling 'a myth'
(BERMUDA) -- Opposition to gambling in Bermuda is a 'myth' according to the authors of a new report. The Task Force on Gaming, which canvassed public opinion as part of a fact-finding mission for its report, concluded that Bermudians were far more relaxed about the subject than had previously been believed.
Aristocrat's Board Sweep
(AUSTRALIA) -- Just over two weeks after revealing its 2009 profit and losses (but promising to improve), poker machine group, Aristocrat Leisure has revealed a major board shake-up with three directors to retire.
Casino Robbers Still At Large in Germany
(GERMANY) -- Over $136,000 was stolen from a casino in Berlin on Saturday. According to German authorities, four men armed with handguns and a machete stormed the building and took the money.
MP's gambling shops plea
(UK) -- A CALL to arms to stop high streets morphing into a "soulless mini-Las Vegas" has been made by Tottenham MP David Lammy. He has demanded the gambling industry stop "profiting from poverty" by saturating deprived areas with betting shops - as a ninth gambling shop won a licence to trade in Harringay's Green Lanes.
Under-fire Aristocrat loses three directors
(AUSTRALIA) -- TROUBLED gambling business Aristocrat Leisure has lost three long-standing directors, including chairman David Simpson, as the gaming machine maker attempts to "refresh the board".
Russian casino finds neutral ground
(RUSSIA) -- A cruise ship has begun selling tickets in Russia for regular trips from St. Petersburg to Helsinki that will allow the company to get around Russians laws banning gambling on most of its territory.
Casino Replica in Cards Sets New Record
(MACAU) -- A free-standing, model of the Venetian Casino in Macau breaks the Guinness World Record using 218,792 playing cards. Bryan Berg broke his own Guinness World Record on Wednesday for the largest house of free-standing playing cards by building a giant replica of the Venetian Macao in China's gambling hub.
Belarus leans toward regulated gambling
(BELARUS) -- Legal gambling in Belarus should not be banned but rather well-regulated to raise government revenue, President Alexander Lukashenko said Tuesday.
Casinos would boost Dubai hotels - exec
(DUBAI) -- A global hotel chief has controversially claimed that Dubai would attract more business to its hospitality sector if it introduced casinos to the emirate.
Regulations for casino operations already in place
(GUYANA) -- Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee has said that all the necessary regulations are in place to facilitate the opening of casinos in Guyana as the Gambling Act gives the minister the power simply to have the regulations gazetted, and does not require that they be taken before the National Assembly.
Navotas steps up anti-gambling drive
(PHILIPPINES) -- Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco directed Sunday the city police to conduct intensified anti-gambling operations in the city in the wake of the arrest of video karera machine operators who were also wanted for two counts of murder.
Casino cleaned out
(GERMANY) -- German police say four heavily armed robbers who stormed a poker tournament and escaped with the jackpot are still on the run.
Bartlett admits role in pokies licence
(AUSTRALIA) -- PREMIER David Bartlett has admitted playing a part in granting a lucrative 15-year poker machine monopoly to a party donor without going to open tender.
Singapore hopes casinos will boost tourism
(SINGAPORE) -- Visitor arrivals to Singapore may rise by as much as 30 percent this year, helped by an economic recovery in Asia and the lure of two new multi-billion dollar casinos, the government said.
Pokies ban 'to cost jobs'
(AUSTRALIA) -- A GREENS plan to phase out poker machines would cost jobs, the Tasmanian Hospitality Association has warned. The association has expressed opposition to the Tasmanian Greens' plan to introduce a $1 maximum betting limit on the way to an eventual total ban on poker machines.
PartyGaming Looking for Casino Customers
(UK) -- Party Gaming is a company with all the right stuff. It has weathered the economic storm happening around the world with a certain confidence and strength rarely seen in today's business environment.
Selja snubs Goa's pro-casino policy
(INDIA) -- Tourism Minister Selja Saturday snubbed the Goa government for supporting casino-oriented tourism, saying "we do not necessarily need things which are not in good taste".
Calls for probe into gambling scandal
(SOUTH AFRICA) -- CALLS for Finance MEC Mcebisi Jonas to investigate the affairs of the Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board grew louder yesterday when political parties waded in.
Call to reduce poker machine numbers
(TASMANIA) -- The Catholic Church has urged Tasmania's political parties to support a reduction in the number of poker machines in the state to curb problem gambling.
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