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  Jamaican Government Expects To Award The First Casino Licence This Year

  01.18.11 | Permalink | Comment?

  Edmund Bartlett, Jamaica’s Minister of Tourism, has indicated that the Government expects to award the first casino licence this year, and that construction on Jamaica’s first casino is expected to commence by year-end as well. As he addressed a media breakfast yesterday for local and international journalists attending Caribbean Marketplace 2011 at the Montego Bay [...]

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  Casino Gaming Commission Members Named

  07.22.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Cabinet has now endorsed the appointment of five members to the Casino Gaming Commission: 1) Dennis Lalor (insurance executive and horse racing enthusiast) 2) Mark Roberts (digital printing businessman) 3) Afeef Lazarus (attorney-at-law) 4) Dennis Edmunds (Attorney-at-law) 5) Raphael Gordon (Chartered accountant and deputy chairman of Caymanas Track Ltd.). Their tenure will extend for two [...]

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  Casino Gambling Bill To Be Tabled Next Week

  10.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  The long-awaited legislation that will pave the way for casino gambling here in Jamaica, is to be tabled in Parliament next week Tuesday (October 27), with debate on the bill to begin shortly after. The legislation had previously been tabled in the House of Representatives in July 2008, but was withdrawn and amended after consultations [...]

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  Gleaner Editorial Suggests Moving Ahead With Casino Law

  09.02.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Today’s editorial in the Jamaica Gleaner newspaper, cuts to the chase saying that Jamaica needs to move ahead quickly with the casino law, so that the country can reap the benefits – such as the generation of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in economic activity. The editorial begins – “It is [...]

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  Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act Being Amended

  07.05.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jamaica’s Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Act is being amended in order to enable the Betting, Gaming and Lotteries Commission to regulate the gaming sector more effectively, as well as to better protect stakeholders and consumers. Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Audley Shaw, recently tabled a Bill to amend the Act in the House [...]

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  Casino Gambling Legislation To Be Debated Next Month

  06.26.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  At a town hall meeting at the Montego Bay Civic Centre yesterday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding stated that the debate in Parliament on the casino gambling legislation will begin next month. “We spent a long time working on the draft, probably longer than we had hoped, but on Tuesday, Audley Shaw, the finance minister gave [...]

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  Ministry Paper on Casino Gaming Tabled

  01.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  A critical step in the process of establishing casino gaming in Jamaica was taken yesterday with the tabling of a ministry paper (Ministry Paper number 3/2009) on the proposed gambling legislation in Parliament. This newly tabled ministry paper has introduced the basis for the gambling legislation – the new Casino Gaming Act – with provisions [...]

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  Policy Governing Casino Gambling in Jamaica to be Approved

  11.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jamaica’s Finance Minister, the Hon. Audley Shaw, has announced that Cabinet is expected to approve policy governing casino gambling in Jamaica some time on Monday (December 1). He indicated that in order to further stimulate the local tourism industry, Cabinet will give the policy the go ahead as quickly as possible.

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  Casino Legislation Debate Within Weeks?

  11.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If Prime Minister Bruce Golding has his way, casino legislation will be brought before Jamaica’s House of Parliament for debate within just a matter of weeks. “Just two days ago (November 5), I signed off with the technical team that we had working on the policy issues that had to be resolved in order to [...]

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  Jamaica’s Casino Gambling On Course

  09.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jamaica’s Tourism Minister, Edmund Bartlett, has said that the Government is close to introducing legislation to govern casino gambling in Jamaica. According to Bartlett, most of the work on the required laws has been completed, and a submission will be taken to Cabinet shortly. More

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