he group SuperClubs has announced the opening in 2008 of its first complex in Panama. It will be a resort of its brand “Breezes”, located in Playa Blanca, in Bijao, province of Coclé. The facility will have 300 all-inclusive apartments as well as a spa, a casino and several international and local restaurants. “We have aimed to expand our properties in Latin America for ten years. In the next 18 months we will be duplicating the presence of the SuperClubs Resorts in the whole region”.
An opening ceremony started the construction process Calama’s casino, which will be the most important venue in Norte Grande, in Chile. A series of features addressed to satisfy the needs of the business, hotel, events, entertainment, tourism as well as to improve the quality of life of the community, is the aim of Latin Gaming, the operating company.
New research suggests that getting a job in the casino industry may not be a bad idea. Gaming surveillance jobs are expected to jump 34-percent in the next eight years. The list of 30-fastest growing occupations is out and if the government's list is right, odds are the Las Vegas job market is a sure bet. Welcome to the surveillance society. You can't go many places in casinos, or other gaming areas, without your every move caught on tape by a security camera.
Boston (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick, leading off a casino gambling hearing that lured Las Vegas chief executives to Beacon Hill, testified Tuesday that lawmakers shouldn't moralize against casino gambling. The Democratic governor pushed his three-casino legislation as a way to create new revenues and jobs at a time when Massachusetts needs both. He said Massachusetts residents currently spend USD 1 billion annually at Connecticut's two casinos.
At least a half-dozen potential buyers have contacted state casino regulators about purchasing the Tropicana Casino and Resort, and a sale could take place within weeks, the head of the state Casino Control Commission said last week. Linda Kassekert appeared at a news conference at the Tropicana with former state Supreme Court Justice Gary Stein, the interim trustee who’s overseeing the casino until a buyer can be found, and Tropicana President Mark Giannantonio, who will stay on to run its day-to-day operations until the sale.
R.D.Tuttle, Nepal’s Casino King, has been granted rightful ownership of the Nepal Recreation Center (NRC) by a competent Court in Hong Kong. The NRC is running eight casinos in Nepal’s five star hotels. Tuttle’s ex-employee, Rakesh Wadhwa-the Indian national was only three weeks back awarded the rights over the NRC by Nepal government’s Company of the Registrar office arbitrarily.
1.500 Gäste, 15.000 kalte und warme Häppchen, 15 attraktive Tagespreise, 150 MitarbeiterInnen und eine ausgelassene Stimmung zeichnete das Fest „15 Jahre Casino Innsbruck“, bei dem hochkarätige Persönlichkeiten aus Wirtschaft, Sport, Kultur und Politik sowie viele Stammgäste am 13. Dezember feierten, aus.
The Control Commission of the Superior Auditory of the Federation of the House of Legislators will ask the Court to discard the controversy promoted by the Department of Interior (Segob), which will prevent to audit in the same way in which casino licenses were granted. PRI and PRD legislators which take part on such legislative instance regretted that last week a constitutional controversy was held in order to avoid the Superior Auditory of the Federation to hold a Special Development Auditory.
Atlantic City - In a stunning development, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission today denied a license renewal for the troubled Tropicana Casino & Resort, saying that a trustee would operate the Boardwalk facility immediately until a buyer was found. It was only the second time a license renewal has been denied in the 29-year history of legalized gambling in Atlantic City. The Tropicana's attorney, Paul O'Gara, said the casino owner, Columbia-Sussex Corp., would appeal the decision, as soon as tomorrow morning, in state court.
More than a decade ago, over dinner at an exclusive Los Angeles restaurant, James Packer watched his late father and Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn haggle over how much Kerry Packer could wager on a single hand on his next visit to Sin City. Wynn won the argument, limiting Packer to USD 250,000 a hand because he knew the notorious hit-and-run whale could get on a streak, as he famously did at the MGM Grand one weekend in 1997, reportedly taking the casino for at least USD 20million playing baccarat.
Crown casino chiefs have been ordered to go to trial over claims they allowed a banned problem gambler to blow USD 30 million. Supreme Court Justice David Harper today ruled that the Southbank casino had a case to answer in its explosive dispute with millionaire Gold Coast property developer Harry Kakavas. Mr Kakavas, 40, alleges he lost USD 30 million playing baccarat in a 14-month gambling spree starting in June 2005.
Sydnes (Reuters) - Australian gaming group Crown Ltd has agreed to buy Las Vegas casino operator Cannery Casino Resorts (CCR) for USD 1.75 billion, adding to its stable of North American gaming operations. Crown, controlled by Australia's richest man James Packer, will buy all of CCR, a joint venture between gaming magnates Bill Paulos and Bill Wortman and private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management.
