BIA Holds Muskegon Casino Meeting

The Bureau of Indian Affairs held a public hearing on an Environmental Impact Statement for the Little River Band of Ottawa Indian’s proposed Muskegon County, Michigan casino. The project...

Published October 26, 2015

Baha Mar Fires More Than 2,000 Employees

The liquidator designated by Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie to end the Baha Mar (l.) standoff has declared that more than 2,000 of the property’s employees are “redundant” and...

Published October 26, 2015

Industry Wonders if Casinos Will Return to Cuba

Although the number of people who ever gambled in Cuba’s fabled casinos (the Tropicana in Havana at left) is dwindling, the romance of the place remains. Now that diplomatic...

Published October 26, 2015

Aussies Embrace Pokie Machines

A new study indicates nearly 3 million Australian adults played pokie machines during the past three months and more than a million during the past week, and most do...

Published October 26, 2015

New Oz Casino?

A consultant group has been hired by the Shire of Broome in Western Australia to assess the viability of a casino project in what some reports have described as...

Published October 26, 2015

Talks Begin to Salvage Baha Mar

The three major stakeholders in the stalled Baha Mar resort project in the Bahamas have begun talks aimed at completing the project. Bahamas Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson (l.) is...

Published October 19, 2015

Paraguay to Announce Winning Bidders

The government of Paraguay is preparing to announce the winners of two 10-year gaming licenses in Asunción. Each developer must pledge to invest at least $10 million, and will...

Published October 19, 2015

OLG, Casino Workers Reach Pension Deal

An undisclosed, tentative deal has been reached between locked-out members of Unifor and the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation. The OLG locked out the workers last month after reaching...

Published October 19, 2015

Sounds Familiar: Echo Brisbane Looks to Chinese VIPs

The developers of Brisbane’s Queen’s Wharf development project are counting on Asian high rollers to butter their bread. Echo Entertainment will build the $2 billion waterfront resort, designed to...

Published October 19, 2015

Toronto Raids Illegal Operations

Toronto police are cracking down in illegal gambling in the city and recently raided 30 locations, including three illegal casinos and nine illegal gambling houses, resulting in charges against...

Published October 19, 2015

Push to End Tasmanian Monopoly

Critics of a 22-year-old gaming monopoly in the Australian state of Tasmania are attacking an arrangement that gives one firm the exclusive right to offer poker in the region.

Published October 12, 2015

PMU Brasil Formed To Promote Racing

Pari Mutuel Urbain and the Jockey Club Brasiliero have formed a joint venture to promote horseracing in Brazil through a new subsidiary, PMU Brasil. PMU will operate betting for...

Published October 12, 2015

Australia, New Zealand Battle for Chinese Gamers

Tourism from China is suddenly a big business in New Zealand and Australia, who are scrambling to attract all kinds of visitors from new economic powerhouse, including visitors to...

Published October 5, 2015

Fitch: Crown, Echo A-OK

Fitch Ratings says Crown Resorts Ltd. and Echo Entertainment, Australia’s top gaming companies and ongoing rivals, are holding steady credit-wise despite weaker economies and expansion plans that were made...

Published October 5, 2015

Can Australia Meet Review Deadline?

Christian Porter, newly Social Services minister in Australia, says the country’s planned review of the gaming structure and regulations is on track to be complete in December. The review...

Published October 5, 2015

Izmirlian, Bahamas Officials in Talks

Sarkis Izmirlian met with Prime Minister Perry Christie (l.) and the attorney general of the Bahamas in a last-ditch effort to save his Baha Mar resort project. The nearly...

Published October 5, 2015

Study Ordered for Israeli Casino

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (l.) ordered ministers to prepare a study of the likely socioeconomic impacts of legalizing gaming in Israel and opening a proposed casino in Eilat,...

Published October 5, 2015

Bloomberry Eyes Argentina

Bloomberry Resorts Corp., the parent company of Solaire Resort and Casino in Manila’s Entertainment City largely owned by Ricky Razon (l.), has established a subsidiary that will explore investment...

Published September 28, 2015

Baha Mar on the Ropes?

A director of the trouble-plagued Baha Mar project in the Bahamas says the termination of the project’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy status will jeopardize the $3.5 billion resort’s “commercial viability.”...

Published September 28, 2015

Betting Limit Increase for B.C. Lottery May Have Been Improper

Michael Graydon, former top regulator in British Columbia, granted a betting increase for all casinos in the province a short time before being hired by a company running casinos...

Published September 28, 2015