ANTIGUA STILL HOPEFUL OF UK ADVERT WHITE LISTING
29 February 2008
Finance Minister Cort is thinking positively
Antigua's minister of finance Dr. Errol Cort remains
optimistic that his country will be added to the UK's
advertising white list for online gambling, he told the
Antigua Sun this week when the newpaper requested an
update.
Antigua and Kahnawake remain excluded from the list of
licensing jurisdictions that UK authorities regard as
acceptable licensing for gambling companies seeking to
advertise in the United Kingdom. This has prompted some
companies to add licensing in accepted jurisdictions to
their websites.
Last month minister Cort and a delegation from his
government met with UK government officials in London
(see previous InfoPowa reports) and came away confident
that their exclusion from the white list would be
reversed, but thus far no such change has occurred.
Earlier, the UK Department of Culture, Media and Sports
had informed through a press release that Antigua and
Barbuda was not on the UK government’s ‘whitelist,’
which meant that the online gambling companies
registered with the Caribbean islands cannot legally
advertise services in the UK.
The decision was made after an extensive review of the
twin island state’s Internet gambling regulations.
Countries that are currently allowed to advertise their
services within the UK are the European Economic Area
nations of Alderney, Malta, Gibraltar and the Isle of
Man, to which the antipodean island of Tasmania was
recently added.
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