The Gaming Board, which will be expected to regulate a legalised webshop industry and/or National Lottery, has been “under-funded” for many years, with requests for additional monies falling on deaf ears.
Dr Andre Rollins, the Gaming Board’s chairman, told Tribune Business that the regulator had been warning the Ministry of Finance from pre-2008 that it needed more funding to meet its existing casino oversight responsibilities, but without success.
Given that the Gaming Board’s responsibilities could effectively explode from regulating just three casinos on two islands (soon to be four and three islands) to hundreds of webshops on multiple islands, Dr Rollins’ comments raise some questions as to whether it will be able to cope with its expanded responsibilities in the event of a ‘Yes’ vote.
