SugarHouse today unveiled design changes for its waterfront casino and said an interim facility with 1,500 slots could be up and running by this time next year. But the partners behind SugarHouse still need to borrow about USD 140 million in order to start building, Robert Sheldon, president of SugarHouse, said at a City Hall news conference.

The Eastern Cape Gambling & Betting Board has rejected objections by the amaMpondo monarchy against the renewal of global hotel group Sun International’s casino licence for the Wild Coast Sun. The board yesterday approved Sun International’s licence, which expires in August. A report on the reasons for the board’s decision will now be forwarded to Finance MEC Phumulo Masualle, who may establish a gambling tribunal to hear further objections.

March 12 (Bloomberg) -- Las Vegas Sands Corp., the casino operator controlled by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, denied a Hong Kong newspaper report that it may sell its gambling license in Macau. “We worked very hard to earn the concession and we have no intention of selling the license,” Las Vegas Sands spokesman Ron Reese said in a phone interview today.

The government is to begin regulating and licensing casino clubs in a first step towards overhauling current gambling legislation. Legislation to control casino gaming in private members’ clubs is to be included in a new anti-money laundering Bill to be published shortly. Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern has decided to press ahead with liberalisation of gambling laws despite the absence of cross-party agreement on the issue.

The Italian government has included a series of points in the text of transposition of a community law on Internet gaming that aims to toughen the existing norms for casinos and online betting houses, as well as for its users, that could end in jail if they go to those illegal sites. According to the Italian press, people will just be able to enter such websites through the site of Monopolios del Estado, and, at first, the executive will only allow 200 licenses.

Panaji - Goa Chief Minister Digambar Kamat today told the assembly that the government shall review the entire policy related to functioning of casinos on and off-shores at the earliest following a spate of complaints. Intervening on the issue during Question Hour, Mr Kamat said Home Minister and Sports Minister should sit together to review the policy so that the casinos organisers did not violate licensing rules henceforth.

The state Gaming Control Board has recommended a license for Southern Nevada’s newest resort and for an Australian multinational company to make its first imprint on the Nevada market. In separate votes, the board unanimously approved a license for the USD 700 million M Resort at Las Vegas Boulevard South and St. Rose Parkway and a license for Australian casino giant Crown Ltd.

The state Gaming Control Board has recommended licensing approval for what would become the southernmost resort in the Las Vegas Valley. The board unanimously approved licensing for the USD 700 million M Resort at Las Vegas Boulevard South and St. Rose Parkway in Henderson. The recommendation will be considered Jan. 22 by the Nevada Gaming Commission. M chief executive Anthony Marnell III said the resort would open March 1.

Jack Binion is back in Las Vegas from a recent trip to Macau where he took a close look at the state of the casino business and decided that for the moment, "It’s too tough over there." Whether he was speaking about the effects of a downturn in the Macau economy or the impact of recent travel restrictions from the mainland is not clear, but Binion noted, "They try and manage their economy more than we do."

The former owners of the Tropicana Casino & Resort "lacked financial integrity and responsibility, as well as business ability," and deserved to be stripped of their casino license, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled unanimously last week. The decision, coming just eight days after the court heard oral arguments in the case, clears the way for a state-appointed trustee to sell the troubled gambling hall in a Bankruptcy Court auction.

Chicago - The three players in the high-stakes competition for Illinois' unused 10th casino license laid out key details of plans to build a new gambling destination in either Des Plaines, Rosemont or Waukegan. Executives from three gaming companies on Tuesday publicly presented their bids at an Illinois Gaming Board meeting, promising to deliver loads of much-needed tax revenue for the state, money-sharing arrangements that would benefit other communities and jobs to put people to work.

The government of Buenos Aires boosts the automatic renovation until 2025 of the licenses for the operation of the 46 bingo halls that operate in the province, with its corresponding slots, including 20 contracts that expire in 2021 and six that conclude before 2011. The measure, planned in a draft of the bill written by the President of the Institute of Lotteries and Casinos of the Province...