Man that 250,000 donation worked great!!

Petty Cash to them anyway!

I agree. Trust me. They knew before the press release.

So how many licenses are to be given out? 5? Well maybe they should just give 4, and have the 8 pair up just to make it 4!

Winners? It's the Bahamian people who are the losers in this deal.

“capacity to create and maintain employment and generate tax revenue”. means sorry suka you didn't vote for us!

Comrades a smiling from ear to ear Obediah or not, am I the only one confused as to why a minister responsible for tourism, would be the substantive crown minster responsible for issuing the eight numbers licenses - when its illegal for numbers be sold to tourists?

The whole thing is a joke!

The only "eligibility standard" that mattered to Christie, Wilchcombe and Baltron Bethel was the answer the racketeering numbers' bosses gave to the following question: "Now just how much did you say gonna come our way each year?"

BAHAMIANS EVERYWHERE SHOULD BE PROTESTING..WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YyOU PEOPLE...YOU LET THIS GOVERNMENT DO WHAT EVER THEY PLEASE, AND YOU VOTED THEM IN POWER. YOU SAID NO TO LEGALIZING GAMBLING, AND THEY GO AHEAD AND DO IT ANYWAY! Young punks who have been stealing from the poor all these years, living it up in Ocean Estates, when they still live in the Ghetto! The license fee was intentionally set high, so that no one else can get in the game....really dirty politics! God help this nation.... the numbers boys are only donating to make you get on their side, its a ploy and s a smoke screen to sucker you in. Where are the Christians in this nation! So people who voted this gov't in....you mean to tell me...you don't care what they do, you just give them card blanch to tax us to poverty, and make themselves rich, and the other opportunist people, like their voters and numbers bosses. We are ofiically a "Mafia" town, that Al Capone would have nothing over....keep being silent Bahamians, for when the bomb falls, we will all be casualties

https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/online-…

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BAHAMIANS EVERYWHERE SHOULD BE PROTESTING..WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YyOU PEOPLE...YOU LET THIS GOVERNMENT DO WHAT EVER THEY PLEASE, AND YOU VOTED THEM IN POWER. YOU SAID NO TO LEGALIZING GAMBLING, AND THEY GO AHEAD AND DO IT ANYWAY! Young punks who have been stealing from the poor all these years, living it up in Ocean Estates, when they still live in the Ghetto! The license fee was intentionally set high, so that no one else can get in the game....really dirty politics! God help this nation.... the numbers boys are only donating to make you get on their side, its a ploy and s a smoke screen to sucker you in. Where are the Christians in this nation! So people who voted this gov't in....you mean to tell me...you don't care what they do, you just give them card blanch to tax us to poverty, and make themselves rich, and the other opportunist people, like their voters and numbers bosses. We are officially a "Mafia" town, that Al Capone would have nothing over....keep being silent Bahamians, for when the bomb falls, we will all be casualties

https://www.gamblingtherapy.org/online-…

To all posters, do you realize that posting here does nothing to help this country. We should take all our posting to Rawson square, article to article. Start a campaign to rally all families to come out and save this country!!!! IF Bahamians do not want to fight for their country, then they do not deserve to have it!

The PLP is so proud to be in bed with known criminals. Another proud moment in Bahamian history. The criminals are now the most powerful Bahamians in history. They now control Christie and our dim witted leader hasn't got a clue! He thinks that he will still be calling the shots. All these guys have to do now is back Brave or Wilchcombe for leader and Christie is out the door. Christie is a dumb as he looks!

Only in the 3rd world do you see the private sector running national lotteries. 1st world countries manage it "in house" with transparency and accountability." 3rd world uses it as cover for payoffs. Much easier to get paid in cash from the "private" sector than to rob the public sector bank. Although this government seems to be adept at both. PLP forever. Get used to it.

And Bahamians Still can't gamble in the Casinos...what a debacle.

They should have had a national lottery That would have been the sensible & honest thing to do. But now just a few will get rich and the majority will carry on being exploited.

These 'web shops' will only destabilize the whole banking system, watch the other Legitimate banks (That are recognized and accepted worldwide) They'll start to leave the Bahamas in droves and take the big international investors with them.

Bahamas will have a lot of money launderers coming to the Bahamas from Russia, China and wartorn Arab states etc. Well done PLP, you have dug a great big hole & now for us to fall into it.... and be buried.

Welcome to the new brand of the political elite but this time they come to the parties, all armed with lots "poor peoples" cash.
Comrade Just2cents unfortunately, there the pickings are slim in the visible numbers citizens who are prepared to stand their ground against the government bypassing a taxpayers owned National Lottery, in favor of known money donors to both the governing and official opposition parties.
Note: Neither Minnis, nor Loretta, have ever denounced the numbers licensing political donors game.
Why not give voters the simplified option mark their X's on one line for both the PLP and red party? If you vote for one you end up getting both - so why even bother to vote in the 2017 General.
Why even both as taxpayers to fund the House of Assembly and Senate Chambers, when neither side isles won't listen to the citizens wishes - well a few they sure seem listen with both ears and their respective political parties pockets - wide open for cash donations - all wagered from and by the poorest among us. they must have no shame at all.