U.s. Virgin Isles Talks Up Online Gambling Again
By Casinomeister, Last updated Feb 14, 2014
We're all ready to go, says AG
The US Virgin Islands has been talking about seriously diversifying into offering online gambling licensing and regulatory services for the past year (see previous InfoPowa reports) and raised the issue again this week.
Attorney General Vincent Frazer says the government's intention is to offer legal and regulated online gambling along the same lines as New Jersey, Nevada and Delaware, and that the necessary empowering legislation is now in place and ready to go.
Last March the island's Casino Control Commission asked Frazier for his professional opinion on the Virgin Islands Internet Gaming and Internet Gambling Act, passed in 2001, and after careful consideration the AG deemed the Act to be sufficiently compehensive to move forward.
U.S. Virgin Islands governor John de Jongh Jr. is backing the diversification, saying:
"This marks a turning point in the diversification of our gaming industry from land-based casinos and racinos, to internet gaming and gambling. This Act will fulfil our mission of attracting very successful global internet gaming companies to the Virgin Islands, and encourage new investments to our struggling economy."
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The man with the plan here at Casinomeister. Bryan Bailey has been running Casinomeister since its launch in June of 1998. He has watched the industry grow from its primeval stage to what it is now. The Meister has attended nearly 100 conferences in the past 20 years and has either been a speaker or a panel moderator for at least 60 events. He has always been an advocate of fairness and reason and is known to like German beer, a good Scotch, and astrophotography.
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