The Eastern Cape Gambling and Betting Board will issue a draft request for proposals for the 10-year casino license in the western part of the province (Zone 1) currently held by Sun International, which operates the Boardwalk in Port Elizabeth. In an advertisement yesterday, the board said a "bidders conference" would be held at its offices in East London on September 5 at which it would hear from interested parties.
An office building opposite Ryelands Park could be transformed into Lancaster's only casino. The city council planning committee is expected to meet by the end of 2008 to discuss plans to convert two floors of the old Legend Communications building into a centre for gambling. The proposals, put in by the building's owner Andrew Brakewell of Hest Bank, would be for the ground floor and first floor of Riversway House on Morecambe Road to be used as a casino...
Vienna/Ovalle, 12 August 2008 - Casinos Austria International (CAI) today announced that it has been awarded the concession for the new casino in the central Chilean town of Ovalle. The announcement followed yesterday's decision by the country's gaming board (Superintendencia de Casinos de Juego) on the operators for Chile's final three casinos.
Details are sketchy, but the Reno Redevelopment Agency said that Nevada Land II LLC “has been working on the acquisition of the Grand Sierra site.” A report from the agency says Nevada Land, which is building a baseball stadium for a Triple-A team in Reno, may be interested in acquiring the property outright, entering a joint-operating venture, or buying land surrounding the property.
Newark, New Jersey - (AP) -- Any hope for a turnaround at Atlantic City's casinos evaporated in the July heat. Summer is usually a hot time for the 11 gambling halls, but not this year. Revenues fell 6.6 percent this July compared to a year ago, increasing the likelihood that the city's industry will have its second consecutive down year. The casinos took in USD 438.7 million in July, compared to USD 469.6 million a year earlier...
With a party for around a thousand special guests and a great quantity of public, managers of Casino Santa Fe opened the gambling venue, that features 600 slots, 36 table games and 120 online bingo positions. After 7,30 pm, authorities of the hotel complex, casino, shopping and convention center, started the opening ceremony, in charge of TV host Teté Coustarot.
The new “Technical Regulations for the operation of Casinos and Gambling Venues (Bingo halls)” came into force, as a result of a consensus reached in meetings with representatives and actors from the private sector that are dedicated to this activity. The technical norms, that are currently in force, oblige casinos and gambling venues to be guided by the agreement...
The Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor), the state-owned operator of casinos and other gaming activities, said that it would no longer be able to contribute to President Arroyo's social fund if the government insists on taxing the corporation. This was the message relayed by Pagcor to the Department of Finance (DOF) during a Senate hearing last week on the tax liabilities of Pagcor.
With casino development one of the biggest topics throughout the Asia-Pacific region, the government and the people of Taiwan continue to blow hot and cold on the subject. It is not a new situation. The Penghu County of Taiwan, composed of a number of islands between the main island and the Chinese mainland, has been one of the primary locales touted as being ripe for casino development.
The sight of backhoes and dirt piles at the SugarHouse casino site this week has angered a group of local archaeologists and historians, who say the excavation work could disturb potentially important relics. SugarHouse got permission from the Army Corps of Engineers on Aug. 1 to begin limited work to install test pilings, as well as to remove underground obstructions.
Washington – Tien Duc Vu, 50, pleaded guilty today in San Diego to conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise, the "Tran Organization," in a scheme to cheat casinos across the country out of millions of dollars, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division Matthew Friedrich, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen P. Hewitt and U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Jeffrey C. Sullivan announced today.
Faced with uncertainty about the future of the economy, Harrah's announced last month that it has slowed construction on the USD 700 Margaritaville Casino and Resort on the beach in east Biloxi. MGM Mirage, parent company of the nearby Beau Rivage, said earlier this spring it had laid off 100 people between the Biloxi and Tunica County properties. As consumers' expendable income shrinks with the rising cost of food and gas...
