SOUTH AMERICA
La comuna de Kourou, situada en laGuayana francesa, al este de Venezuela, ha lanzado una convocatoria en busca de solicitudes para operar un casino. La potencial ubicación del nuevo proyecto ha cambiado. El futuro casino podría estar emplazado al borde del lago Chaudat, en la principal carretera de acceso a la ciudad.
Gilberto Occhi, Presidente del mayor operador bancario y de loterías de propiedad estatal, la Caixa Econômica Federal (CAIXA), afirma que el banco desea actuar como entidad supervisora del juego tanto terrestre como por Internet en Brasil.
Coljuegos ha confirmado que el comité seguirá bloqueando a los operadores extranjeros a la hora de ofrecer sus servicios a nivel local y que permitirá la expansión del mercado regulado. El anuncio se realizó después de que el comité con- firmara que le había concedido una licencia online a Codere Colombia S.A.
El Ministerio de Finanzas de la provincia argentina de Córdoba ha anunciado que empezará a aplicar un impuesto sobre las transacciones de juego online. El nuevo impuesto, que entrará en vigor este mismo mes, tiene como objetivo recau- dar unos 75 millones de pesos (4,4 millones de dólares) para las arcas del Estado.
El Gobernador del estado mexicano de Chihuahua, Javier Corral Jurado, ha anunciado que se aplicarán a los casinos y casas de apuestas de la región dos nuevos impuestos fijados en el seis y el tres por ciento, respectivamente.
Crane Payment Innovations (CPI), una empresa de Crane Co., ha sido elegida como el proveedor preferente de validadores de billetes para el Casino Schaanwald, la primera incursión de Casinos Austria International en Liechtenstein. El casino, que celebró su gran fiesta de inauguración el 25 de octubre de 2017, utiliza validadores de billetes SC Advance en toda su sala de tragaper- ras.
El operador de Montecarlo Société des Bains de Mer ha hecho pública una mejora del 4,1 por ciento en sus cifras semestrales, donde destaca la subida de los ingresos brutos del juego, que han pasado de 281,2 a 292,9 millones de euros. Este incremento de 11,7 millones de euros ha sido el resultado de una «mejora de los ingresos en todos los sectores».
El operador de casinos Storm International está expandiendo sus operaciones con un nuevo establecimiento, el SL Casino Riga. El nuevo casino está situado en el centro de la capital de Letonia, en el recién construido Grand Hotel Kempinski.
Las naciones tribales de los Mashantucket Pequot y los Mohegan se han unido al estado de Connecticut en su demanda contra el Departa- mento de Interior por la negativa de este a considerar la aprobación de enmiendas de común acuerdo para sus pactos existentes con el estado de Connecticut.
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Te commune of Kourou, in Guyana, administrative region east of Venezuela, has launched a call for applications for the operation of a casino
GUYANA LICENSING Kourou Shows Casino Ambition in Guyana
Te commune of Kourou, in Guyana, administrative region east of Venezuela, has been thinking about setting up a casino for some time. In April 2012, a first public service delegation procedure was launched. Te only candidate who answered did not meet all the criteria and the municipality abandoned the project in July 2015.
Councilor Adelson Magloire said: "Te administrative and political environment has evolved and is much more favorable, with the pooling of resources and the promotion of the territory. A steering committee has been set up, with various partners, the community of communes, the territorial community, the Chamber of Commerce, to reflect on the measures that the city should take in terms of a favorable solution.”
Te potential location of the new project has shifted. Te future casino could be located at the edge of Lake Chaudat, on the main road to enter the city, 2km from the National Highway 1, the main road that passes through the department of Saint-Laurent du Maroni in the west, to
Cayenne in the east. Kourou is not the only Guyanese town that wants a casino.
After the failure of Matoury, Cayenne, a region that was initially not interested, finally decided to show its interest. It will probably be late December or early January 2018. In Matoury, the project carried out by the group Cogit, which has been long established in the region where it operates all the Caribbean casinos in Martinique and Guadeloupe, envisaged in its economic impact study, 160,000 visitors per year and a GGR of €8m. It launched a casino project in 2011 and on March 1, 2013, Matoury signed on the dotted line with SOGEXCAM, a subsidiary of the Cogit group.
Te casino didn’t come to fruition though and Cogit took legal action with proceedings are pending. Te firm Atout France sees bigger opportunities in Cayenne which it believes could generate GGR of €36m.
Georgetown already has two casinos including Guyana Princess Hotel and Casino, the largest in the country with 16 table games and 250 slots.
Panama
Fernando Bezerra both of whom have been key players in developing new gaming laws now under consideration in the Committee on Constitution, Justice and Citizenship (CCJ) in the Senate.
Brazil
CAIXA wants to be Brazil’s regulatory body
Gilberto Occhi President of the largest state owned bank and lottery operator – the Caixa Econômica Federal (CAIXA) says the bank wants to act as the supervisory body of both land based and internet gambling in Brazil. He believes that the legalisation of gaming could generate around R$20bn per year and that online gaming could generate the largest revenues.
Speaking at a ceremony at the Planalto Palace, Occhi said: “Te country does not have a gaming regulatory agency and Caixa is today an agency that has credibility and respect.” According to Occhi, members of Caixa have already discussed the issue with senators Ciro Nogueira and
"You're going to need payment participation, surveillance and monitoring. We are the only institution authorised to promote games in Brazil, our request to parliamentarians is that we can participate in this management,” the bank President said, adding that it did not expect to be the supervisory body for all aspects of the industry, but would be given the task of paying out winners.
Occhi also said that Brazil was losing out as revenues were leaving Brazil as players bet offshore. In addition land based casinos would bring investment into Brazil. However, land based casinos would be used more to bring investment to lesser- developed areas of the country he said. Te bank is uniquely well placed to oversee the industry as its lottery sales network is extremely well developed and extensive and encompasses the entire territory.
During the first nine months of last year a total of US$S1,710m was bet in Panama on games regulated by the Gaming Control Board (JCJ) compared to US$1,683m in 2016. Te increase of US$27m - a 1.6 per cent at the close of the third quarter - is the highest increase of the year.
Te largest increase in bets - US$1,483m - was recorded in type A slot parlours which house type A slot machines. Tese slot machines do not have a payout ceiling and may be present in type A slot parlours as well as casinos. Type A slot parlours are in the main controlled by company Gaming & Services of Panama, which manages 27 slot parlours rooms and come under the “Fantastic” brand name. Meanwhile gambling via table games, which by law can also only be located in fully fledged casinos, stood at US$145.9m. Other games such as bingo, sports betting, as well as gaming at the Presidente Remón Racetrack and racino stood at US$58.9m.
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