CARIBBEAN POLITICIAN BENDS BUSH'S EAR ON INTERNET GAMBLING BAN

29 June 2007

And the US president says (politely) that he'll look into it

Interactive Gaming News reports that Baldwin Spencer, Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, raised his nation's well known I-gaming dispute with the United States during a meeting this week between Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders and US President George W. Bush.

Spencer told the Antigua Sun newspaper that Bush said he was aware of the details of the dispute, that he was pleased that the matter was raised and pledged to look into it in an effort to reach a resolution.

Antigua, together with 7 other nations is currently involved in making compensation claims against the US following that country's refusal to comply with a World Trade Organisation ruling on its protectionist stance regarding online gambling, and its recent decision to withdraw gambling from its treaty obligations.

IGN commented that Bush's approval rating dipped to 26 percent in the latest Newsweek poll released last Thursday, putting him within three percentage points of the worst approval rating on record (23 percent), posted by former President Richard Nixon amid the Watergate scandal of the early '70s.

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