Regency Casino: Harare’s little Las Vegas
Harare is a beautiful city and relatively friendly to any would-be visitor. The city is a bright and well-organised haven and the hinterlands are positively bursting with gorgeousness, now that the winter season is over and enter the windy, sunny and conducive merry-making weather conditions
Now that winter is entering the twilight zone it is […]
Belize: Gunmen took over $60,000 from Princess, police say
Police are investigating a daylight armed robbery at the Princess Hotel and Casino in Belize City, in which police say over $60,000 in cash was reportedly taken when four armed men held up the hotel employees around 9A.M. on Monday.
According to police, the four armed gunmen entered a recently renovated office, from the pool area […]
Internet gamblers at high health risk
A higher percentage of Internet gamblers develop serious behavioral disorders compared to others who wager, researchers reported Sunday in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, a journal of the American Psychological Association.
“People doing therapy with Internet gamblers call it the ‘crack’ of gambling disorders,” Linda Chamberlain, gambling disorders therapist in Denver, told United Press International. “This kind […]
US indictment charges operators of Antigua gambling Website
US indictment charges operators of Antigua gambling Website
Two operators of an Antigua-based Internet gambling site have been indicted on US charges of money laundering involving some $250 million of wagers, officials announced on Wednesday.
The indictment unsealed in Washington this week against the operators of WorldWide Telesports, Inc. charges two companies and two individuals with violation […]
Gaming group 888 floats in London
LONDON - Trading in shares in 888 Holdings, the Gibraltar-based online gaming group, began in London on September 29 after it placed one-quarter of its capital with institutional investors. 888 priced its initial public offering at 175 pence per share, valuing the group at 590 million pounds Sterling ($1.04 billion), the company said in a […]
...read moreSecret casino floats on Belizean waters
Government’s latest secret deal it seems is a floating casino.
Yes, a huge white ship with the name Island Casino marked in blue letters, is anchored in Belizean waters and GOB is not talking.
Fully equipped with a state-of-the-art luxurious casino on board, the vessel was guided in its new port of call by local port pilots […]
Jericho roulette
On 15 September, the West Bank town of Jericho joined the ranks of Monte Carlo, Las Vegas and Atlantic City — three sacred cities of the international gambling fraternity — when a lavish new casino, The Oasis, opened at a cost of $150-200 million. This is not a corner café crammed with card players, but […]
...read moreBelize: Gunmen raid San Pedro casino for $62,000
Two masked gunmen who smashed through the glass doors of Casino Belize on Coconut Drive in San Pedro last Tusday night, got away with $62,000 in cash and traveller’s cheques.
The relative ease with which they took the money is feeding speculation that they had inside help.
Eyewitnesses say the gunmen broke the Gunmen raid San Pedrocasino […]
Bermuda police raid ‘gaming ship’ and arrest captain
HAMILTON, Bermuda - The captain of a luxury yacht was in police custody in this British Caribbean territory on Saturday after his arrest on suspicion of breaching the island’s anti-gaming laws.
Police and customs officers raided the 196-foot (59-metre) Panamanian-registered vessel on Friday while it was moored off Bermuda’s coast. Authorities arrested the captain, whose name […]
Russia: Drunk fires shot in casino
A drunken businessman attempted to enter the Royal Park casino in Vladivostok with a hunting carbine, brawled with a guard, and fired an accidental shot before he was detained by the police around 3 a.m. Thursday. No one was injured by the shot, which was directed upward. The businessman was 25 years old.
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