Archives for June 2008
Zimbabwe: Gambling addiction takes hold in Harare
Gambling fever is gripping Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, amid skyrocketing hyperinflation - breaking up families and attracting crime, social planners say.
Slot machines, casinos and gaming houses are springing up across Harare, in ghettos and elegant five star hotels alike, luring Hara re’s young and old to make one more roll of the dice.
In the cottage of […]
Israeli lawmakers propose state-owned casino
Life may already seem like a daily gamble to many ordinary Israelis, caught in the middle of a violent Palestinian uprising since September.
But a group of lawmakers suggested gambling of another sort on June 5 when they made a controversial proposal to build a government-owned casino.
Two dozen members of Israel’s parliament, representing a broad cross-section […]
Israeli gamblers to bet ‘in the air’
The sky will soon be the limit for Israeli gamblers with the launch of a new airborne casino allowing them to skirt the country’s tough gaming laws.
The Transport Ministry said May 27 it had authorized Icelandic airline Air Atlanta to fly the custom-built Boeing 747 three times a day starting next year.
“I approved it because […]
Online casino places bets on London flotation
LONDON - British company 888 Holdings, owner of the world’s largest online casino 888.com, announced on September 1 that it was to float on the London Stock Exchange. John Anderson, chief executive of 888 and a former director of British betting chain Ladbrokes, said that the flotation would help build a war chest for the […]
Lebanon casinos, cabarets down but not out
From the glamour of the Casino du Liban for the high society to downright seedy bars for the low-life, Lebanon even in wartime caters for all tastes.
“The show must go on” has long been the motto of the casino nestled on a hill on the tip of the Bay of Junieh, located in the Christian […]
Belize: Another heist at the Princess Casino $98,000 taken in 7 months!
A single masked man carrying a sawed-off shotgun pulled off a broad daylight heist of a moneybag containing $33,000 in cash and cheques weekend belonging to the Princess Hotel on Newtown Barracks in Belize City.
Reports are around 9:30A.M. on Monday an unarmed security guard, along with two employees from the accounts section, had just picked […]
Barbados: Priests cry out against gambling
WITH BARBADIANS and visitors spending $200 - in some cases much more - in Mega 6 tickets to win the $2.5 million jackpot, some priests have come out and condemned the gambling fever now sweeping the island.
“It is evil and should be avoided,” said Father Harcourt Blackett on Sunday in a telephone interview. The Roman […]
Thieves at the casino
PORT-OF-SPAIN - Thieves stole close to TT$100 000 during an armed robbery at a casino in San Fernando on Tuesday night.
At 10 p.m., police said the men with pump-action shotguns went into the Club Avenue 5 casino in Duncan Village, San Fernando. They disarmed security guard Michael Jones of his handgun and six rounds of […]
Russia: Police arrest counterfeiter at Royal Park Casino
Police recently arrested a counterfeiter at the Royal Park Casino, the krai police press service reported.
The man, who works as a commercial agent with the Khabarovsk-based Kard company, bought $3,000 worth of chips, paying in fake $100 bills, before casino workers notified police.
U.S. also practiced ‘ethnic cleansing’
In 1838, after attempts to keep their land by legal means failed, most of the Native American Cherokee tribe was driven west by U.S. federal troops in a forced march known as the Trail of Tears. The march of almost 20,000 people resulted in the death of 4,000 people. America has devoted an incredible amount […]