Why wouldn't they? They're operating illegally already

Comrades the more I get to better understand the Web Shops "delay and more delay game" PM Christie and his cabinet colleagues are playing with the minds of their own people, the sicker to my stomach I become. While I agree with the majority of what Comrade Dr. Andre has outlined herein, why is it as Chairman of the Gaming Board, is he not screaming from his gaming office for the Commish of Policemans to walked into ALL Web Shops and walkout with the devices used for "spinning," removing them for for "forensics testing?" Comrade Dr. Andre you talk a good talk but you don't have enough bullocks to kick any PLP's ass, if they voluntarily dropped their damn pants and bent over for a swift kick. If the seized gambling devices are found to be 'fixed" in favor of the House you arrest, close-down and prosecute the hell out of the offenders. And, YES, that must include all PLP financial contributors. PM this Web Shops thing is going to destroy you and your colleagues, and before 2017 has a chance to come around. PM put an immediate end to this sneaky PLP nonsense and establish a government National Lottery.

As I have revealed a week or so ago web shops want nothing less than to be legalized. Why pay fees, taxes and adhere to standards? As long as they operate in the black all they have to pay is bribes to politicians and the police. That is a fraction of what legalization would cost them. This is not a speculation, this is a fact coming from me who was in the business setting one of these web shops up. We wanted nothing to do with legalization, we paid the bribes and the only thing that put a fear into us was a national lottery as we could not hope to compete with the government illegally. If the government would run a lottery they would place terminals into every food store, convenience store, pub and mall. They would then for sure go after the competition (us) and shut us down for good. So don't hold your breath for legalized numbers houses, it will not happen.

Web shops MAY be fleecing customers?? What an absurd idea. Surely these fine, upstanding members of the community couldn't possibly be cheating people. There's a novel idea indeed.

WAKE up, people! Of course web shops are fleecing people.

of cour$e, every day of further delay count$.

$12M a drop in the bucket! Our debt stands close to $6B!

It is amazing how the police can say they have no proof of illegality taking place in these "web shops" yet the Chairman can stand in the House of Assembly and tell the country what is going on. Could the police really be lying to us???

***"He also expressed concern that the government’s move to legalise some forms of gaming for Bahamians will lead to gambling addiction*******"...“**A separate responsible gaming tax should be imposed on web shops and earmarked to combat compulsive gambling**,” What sense does it make to create a gambling addiction problem and then earmark money to combat it ... this is akin to drinking poison and dependiing on the antidote to fix your stupidity. One would think that avoiding the problem in the first palce would be the prudent decision.

It is not the government's job to save people from themselves. In a free country you have the right to make as many bad decisions as you want. Not to mention the fact that whoever is susceptible to a gambling addiction is an addict already and buying numbers twice a day.

Comrade Justthefactsplease there has been no bigger blog supporter of PM Christie being returned to power than this Comrade, yet from the day the referendum was even talked about I opposed regularizing, legalizing, stabilizing or whatever lizing the PM and his cabinet colleagues use to smooth this over on their own people. How can you make lawlessness straight under the law? I have pointed out before that all these web shops are doing is piggybacking off of American States sanction lotteries. This in itself is Illegal. Do you recall how they talked that, if the NO's voted in the majority it would result in the loss of web shops jobs. But once PM Christie made it official he would go against the votes of the people, what in the hell did they do. They FIRED employees who they claimed were not fit to move forward as they moved closer toward regularizing (decriminalizing) the numbers rackets. Minister Shane where in the hell was the power of your office when they were fired. I will tell you. Not a damn word was uttered by you as the minister of labour. PM did you stand up for even one of the many FIRED web shops workers? of course not and the people know exactly why you and your labour officials and your entire cabinet closed your eyes. what in hell have poor people ever done make this PLP government turn your backs on their plights?

The reason for piggybacking is that nobody would trust a Bahamian entity to be an honest agent for drawing numbers. If there was a national lottery it would have to be using USA numbers as well because the government is a bigger collection of crooks that numbers bosses ever were. It is very easy to corrupt a draw so that the least amount of winners there are. Or to make politically connected donors the winners of big prizes.

Left hand dont know what right hand doing............. Exec Chairman, Minister on different page.............. he is a toothless dragon

This is the sad state of Cabinet operations ................... and powerful lobby groups and civil servants susceptible to bribery and corruption

Usually the saying goes: "No need to explain something as the result of corruption when incompetence can do the job"
In the Bahamas it goes as the exact opposite: "Don't try to explain something as incompetence when corruption will do."

Roberts and Gray, like Christie, Miller, et al, have spouted so much hogwash over the years that they now truly believe most of the utter nonsense that comes from their parted lips. When politicians like these four individuals constantly exhibit such warped (handicapped?) mindsets, they are usually years beyond the time they should have been put out to pasture....which does not speak well at all for those who have supported them in recent years, fortunately now rapidly diminishing in number. I listened to the presentations in the House of Assembly of Greg Moss and Dr. Andre Rollins that have caused such a stir within the PLP......it was a most refreshing change to see young politicians capable and willing to speak their mind in the interest of their constituents and the Bahamian people. True to Christie's insecurities as a failed leader, he has now set the likes of Roberts and Gray on Mr. Moss and Dr. Rollins as if to teach them a lesson when in fact it is Christie, Roberts, Gray and Miller (four old flea ridden pot cakes living in the wrong political era of our country) who should be taking a lesson from Mr. Moss and Dr. Rollins.

JTFP...just like the government has already admitted that VAT will impact the poor...so they are earmarking a chunk of the money that was meant to be going to pay down our debt, to go towards social services to assist those negatively impacted by VAT...and around and around we go!! Getting dizzy yet?

OMG, there's cheating???

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WHICH ON OF THE BELOW REIGNS SUPREME IN THE BAHAMAS?

The Bahamas Lottery and Gaming Act
Chapter 387
Section 50
Persons prohibited from Gaming

Or

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas
Chapter III – Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedom of the Individual.
Section 26
Protection from Discrimination on grounds of Race, Place of Origin etc.

The Bahamas Gaming Association stands by the Ideology that all human beings who are 18 years or older should be treated equally in all sectors of the Bahamian Economy which is enshrined in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.