Rota Mayor Joseph S. Inos has already submitted the names of his five appointees to the island’s Casino Gaming Control Commission. They are Barry Cuthbert Toves, Diego M. Songao, Ephrem S. Taimanao, Abraham M. Ogo and Melchor A. Mendiola. In his letter on Feb. 14 to Roy James A. Masga, Rota’s municipal council chairman, Inos stated that “after having personally consulted with each appointee...
Tropicana Entertainment on Tuesday filed a long-threatened appeal of New Jersey regulators’ decision to strip it of its Atlantic City gaming license. The Crestview Hills-based affiliate of hotelier Columbia Sussex was denied the license in December by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission, which fined the company USD 750,000 in civil penalties. The regulators cited poor management practices...
The BC Government and Service Employees Union is recommending Lake City Casino Employees accept a tentative three year agreement. The new contract covers 500 employees at the Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton and Kamloops casinos. The deal includes an 8 percent wage increase over the next three years, some improved benefits and paid training for Dealers and Security Guards.
Casino gambling in Iowa began with quaint riverboats, grew into gargantuan gambling palaces and may soon grow even more. On Thursday, the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission will begin discussing whether to issue more casino licenses. The outcome of those talks will have ramifications across the state, in the 17 licensed casinos, in the five communities that hope to open new casinos and in the minds of Iowans on both sides of the debate over gambling expansion.
The casino war here may have been won by the city government, which had opposed its operation. However, Cheryl Ann Ruiz Arnold, corporate communications officer of Thunderbird Resorts, said 60 percent of customers of their casino in nearby San Fernando City in La Union come from Baguio. The casino attracts from 1,000 to 2,000 patrons daily, said Arnold. Thunderbird is the same company that wanted to open a casino in Baguio five years ago but the thunder against it was stronger here.
A landmark building to tower over the seafront, a theme park and even turning the historic town hall into a gambling house are among developers' ideas for creating a new casino in Yarmouth, the EDP has learned. While two developers have already shown their hands - proposing GBP 35m leisure complexes that would combine a casino with such facilities as multiplex cinemas, bowling alleys...
Das letzte Februarwochenende ging im Grand Casino Baden bei Zürich mit viel Spannung und Spass über die Bühne. Am Donnerstagabend erzählte Dieter Meier, der Urvater des Technos und bekannt von „Yello“, über seine Leidenschaft für exquisiten Wein und argentinisches Rindfleisch sowie über seine Zeit als Poker-Profi.
Rank, the bingo and casinos group long seen as a possible takeover target, has removed a key obstacle for potential buyers by agreeing a deal to hive off its pension plan. The company is transferring the pension scheme to the investment bank Goldman Sachs, making GBP 20m in cash and avoiding a further £30m in scheduled contributions to the scheme. The pension scheme has 20,000 members, reflecting the fact that Rank was once a bigger company.
Bourbon County, Kentucky - Arthur Hancock, a fourth-generation thoroughbred breeder, pointed out his office window on a recent morning to illustrate a fundamental difference between horse racing and casino gambling. A shimmering copper sun was rising over his 1,800-acre bluegrass farm. A clutch of lithe prize ponies grazed under a gunmetal sky. "Look out there," said Hancock, 64. "This is a whole different world."
After winning the right to represent casino dealers at two major Strip resorts last year, the Transport Workers Union of America is taking its organizing effort to the next level. The union, which is working to bolster a fledgling gaming division here, plans to announce Monday that it is launching a public campaign urging card players to tip their dealers. The campaign will feature a Web site, billboards, and print and Internet advertising.
The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa’s second hotel tower will open in June, its parent company said this week. The Water Club, a USD 400 million 800-room hotel, had been delayed by a fire last year that damaged portions of its exterior. Before the September blaze, the Water Club was scheduled to be the first in a wave of hotel expansion projects to be completed in Atlantic City. That honor went to Harrah’s similarly named Waterfront Tower, which has already started admitting guests on one floor within the past 10 days.
The federal government has warned an Oklahoma Indian tribe not to open a planned off-reservation gambling casino along an interstate highway in southern New Mexico. The National Indian Gaming Commission told the Fort Sill Apache Tribe on Thursday that it cannot legally open the casino and risked enforcement action if gambling is permitted on the tribally owned land in New Mexico. The commission issued its letter a day after Gov. Bill Richardson ordered state police to block access to the tribe's casino if gambling was started.
