Unregulated internet gambling is simply adding to the growing problem ofaddiction, delegates attending the Canadian Association of SuicidePrevention conference in Toronto were told this week. An estimated 200compulsive gamblers commit suicide in Canada every year, said Terry Flynn, adirector of spiritual care at the Bellwood Health Services facility inToronto. The growth of gambling on the […]
The British government plans next week to seek international support forlegalized, regulated online gambling, emphasizing a trans-Atlanticdifference on the issue after the Bush administration’s recent move tooutlaw transactions with Internet gambling services. During a conferencescheduled for Tuesday at the Royal Ascot racecourse, the British governmentplans to seek adoption of a broad code of principles on […]
The voices talking so loudly against the Unlawful Internet GamblingEnforcement Act (UIGEA) on forums and blogs across are the internet will beleaving their keyboards on November 3-4 and will be headed to WashingtonD.C. to protest the latest US prohibition. The purpose of the demonstrationwill be to gain press coverage from major news organizations such as […]
Former Commonwealth Bank employee Erick Tjandra, 32, was jailed for aminimum three years on 37 counts of defrauding the bank. Over a 15-monthperiod Tjandra stole $10.4 million from the bank, $8 million of which he“poured down the throat of the casino”, District Court Judge ChristopherArmitage said today.The casino had allowed the bank clerk to play […]
Smoking. Gambling. A sin tax for the arts. An increase in the minimum wage.These are among the contentious issues voters here will decide at the ballotbox November 7. Perhaps the most confusing for Ohio voters are statewideIssues 4 and 5. Both would limit smoking in public places, but to differentdegrees. Issue 4 is a constitutional […]
Rev. Frank Dei, who made the disclosure said the consumption of alcohol anddrugs was threatening not only the health and education of the youth, butalso their productivity. The Rev, Minister’s observations are borne out on aregular basis by reports of students and young people engaging in bingedrinking. Just last week, eighteen final-year pupils of Adankwame […]
Some lobbyists pushing to legalize electronic gambling machines are findinga more receptive audience in eastern Indiana where authorities raided morethan 20 taverns accused of violating the law. Indiana Licensed BeverageAssociation officials drew about 40 bar and restaurant owners to a meetingTuesday. It was one of a series of public meetings around the state topersuade lawmakers […]
As a co-sponsor of a bill that was signed into law two weeks ago byPresident Bush, Jon Kyl, the Republican Senator from Arizona, has workedhard over the years to abolish online gambling utilizing the “family values”front. The current law would look to severely cut off some forms of onlinegambling via credit card transactions, though the […]
PartyGaming Plc, the world’s largest online poker company, lost 75 percentof its revenue when the company shut down its U.S. sites to comply with anew law enforcing a ban on Internet gambling. That hasn’t dented ChiefExecutive Officer Mitch Garber’s optimism. “Chaos breeds opportunity and wewill seize that opportunity,” Garber said on a conference call Oct. […]
Gambling site Bodog has odds up for the Playstation 3 launch. While I’mintrigued, I think the person setting the odds and deciding on the betsneeds to do a little more homework. The site still has bets up on whetherthe price will be changed before launch and whether the console will getapproval by the FDA before […]
The Pennsylvania Legislature was unable to finalize a long-awaited gamblingreform bill Tuesday night after the House amended a number of provisions,including one it claims was the result of a Senate drafting error. Thegambling reform bill was the second piece of major legislation on the agendathat lawmakers may be unsuccessful in finishing up before the Novemberelection […]
The unanimous vote kept the bill from going to Gov. Ed Rendell. It alsocontinued a volley between chambers that has lasted for much of the pastyear over how to fix problems identified by critics of the state’s2-year-old gambling law, with one chamber often dropping pet provisionswritten by the other. House Majority Leader Sam Smith, R-Jefferson, […]
Gamblers may look over their shoulder now, but experts say a new Internetgambling ban won’t keep bettors from ponying up, just turn them on tooverseas payment services out of the law’s reach. “It has put a terriblescare into people,” said I. Nelson Rose, who teaches gambling law atWhittier Law School. “But it won’t by any […]
Lobbyists pushing to legalize electronic gambling machines are finding amore receptive audience in eastern Indiana after authorities raided morethan 20 taverns accused of violating the law. Indiana Licensed BeverageAssociation officials drew about 40 bar and restaurant owners to a meetingTuesday. It was one of a series of public meetings around the state topersuade lawmakers that […]