Today’s Jamaica Observer newspaper features a casino editorial which speaks about ‘Preparing Jamaica for casino gambling’. An excerpt:
“There is no doubt in our minds that as the Government contemplates plugging the deep hole in the budget, the introduction of casino gaming will become an increasingly attractive option. We, for our part, don’t pretend to be [...]

A proposal by the Government and tourism interests to give all Jamaicans access to the large-scale casino gambling that is to be introduced in western Jamaica soon, has been blasted by University of the West Indies (UWI) academics who said the decision was not informed by the best interests of the country.
The heated difference of [...]

How’s this for a bit of the history of gambling in Jamaica. On March 20, 1944, Phillip Wong of a Duke Street address in Kingston, pleaded guilty in court to a breach of the Gambling Law (namely – selling peaka pow tickets). He was fined £20 or three months in prison. Wong was arrested during [...]

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 for [...]

Dennis Constanzo, president of local developers, Palmyra Resort and Spa, is reportedly frustrated by delays in receiving his resort’s casino license. Prime Minister Bruce Golding had announced the award of licenses to Palmyra and Harmonisation Limited and the Palmyra earlier this year.
Palmyra’s development is set to become the island’s first casino hotel, and will reportedly [...]

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.

Letter to the Gleaner Editor – published in print version of Gleaner on November 18, 2008
The editorial on casinos could not have been more on target. Jamaica’s tourism industry should be 10 times larger than it is and the Government should be doing everything in its power to help it grow. What are we waiting [...]

Yesterday’s pro-casino editorial in the Gleaner newspaper elicited an almost immediate response from one “P. Gordon”, decried the tone of the editorial and asks that the Gleaner advocate for casino gambling without scoffing at persons who would not wish to see this development in Jamaica.
Gordon also adopts a somewhat cynical tone, as he encourages the [...]

Today’s editorial in the Gleaner newspaper is aimed straight at those who are against legalizing casinos in Jamaica, from a moral perspective. It encourages Bruce Golding and the rest of the Government to hurry up and bring the proposed casino legislation before parliament, especially since the country has seemingly wasted decades “cowering at the tyranny [...]

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 facilitate [...]