NASSAU, Bahamas: A senior local government official in Trinidad and Tobago says gambling establishments or “web shops” should not be legalized in The Bahamas, and instead suggests that the ruling Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) create its own national lottery.Louis Lee-Sing, the mayor of Port-of-Spain,says that gambling houses should not have been allowed to function in the first place.
While The Bahamas has the potential to generate billions in revenue, gambling must be transparent and compliant with the law. And the best way to achieve that is through an online national lottery.
“People can’t be allowed to run their own rackets,” Lee-Sing said, mayor of the Caribbean nation’s capital city.
“And I sense that the government, rather than going the way of legalizing the web operators, should be introducing a national lottery. Of course, the web operators could very much be a part of the national lottery, because if they are taking bets now for other kinds of games, they will be permitted to take bets for the lottery by putting in a terminal. But they would not have control over the terminal, and they won’t be able to fix the numbers or the games. All of that will be based on a set pattern that is scientific and all-embracing.”
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