2008 March 05 Gambling News, Events and Happenings - Page 6

BOSTON The state will not withdraw its negative comments on the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe’s land trust application, but the tribe will forge ahead with the federal casino process.

INDIANAPOLIS | It’s now up to Gov. Mitch Daniels to decide whether Indiana bars and taverns will be allowed to offer pull tabs, raffles and other low-stakes forms of paper gambling.

BANGKOK: Thailands newly elected Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej yesterday called for the legalisation of casinos in select tourist resorts as a means of generating income and undermining rampant illegal gambling.

“Our main focus was the robbery itself”

HARRISBURG — State gaming regulators must have known that a Poconos casino applicant was the subject of a state perjury probe before they awarded him a slot machine license, the state’s top law …

State Police Commissioner Jeffrey Miller told state lawmakers Tuesday that a little more money could go a long way to enhance safety at Pennsylvania’s casinos.

Slot machines were outlawed in Southern Maryland in the mid-1960s. But they seem to be making a come-back in a slightly different form. And state lawmakers are moving to stop it. WYPR’s Joel McCord reports.

Party Gaming has released it’s 2007 full year results, admitting a huge 68 percent drop in annual profit due mainly to the group’s enforced exit from the US market late in 2006, and revealing that CEO Mitch Garber will be leaving his post mid 2009. Apparently Garber plans to return to Canada and will not be renewing his contract after May 2009.

The Canadian newspaper The National Post reports that the Canadian federal government is considering new measures to stamp out Internet gaming sites based in the Mohawk tribal enclave of Kahnawake in a move that could spark conflict between Ottawa and Canada’s First Nations.