Minister of Education, Andrew Holness, commented recently during an interview with the JIS News at his Ministry’s offices in Kingston, that he supports the use of gambling taxes to help fund nationwide school infrastructure development.
The minister stated – “in many other institutions education is funded, particularly infrastructure by gaming taxes, I am not averse to that.”
Continuing, he noted that “if we must have gambling and [it] has these social ills, then the best way to remedy those ills, if they occur in any persistent way in our society, is through education. And so, I am of the firm belief that if we do have casino gambling, then the tax revenues from that should come straight to the National Education Trust Fund”.
