Question: 1 Black Tuesday refers to a day in Bahamian history‚ April 27‚ 1965. The then-Opposition Leader and former Prime Minister of the Bahamas Sir Lynden Pindling threw the Speaker’s Mace out of the House of Assembly window in protest against the unfair gerrymandering of constituency boundaries by the then ruling United Bahamian Party (UBP) government. Thursday the 16th day of April‚ 1965‚ around 3 o’clock in the afternoon‚ the draft order providing for the new constituency boundaries under
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Oanh Nguyen Engl 1302 LEGALIZED GAMBLE IN TEXAS Texas legislators should pass and legalized gambling to help keeping the money inside the state and also earn more revenue through tourism and other associated industries. Compare to neighbor state Louisiana‚ Texas has lost millions and millions dollars per year because Texans crossing the state line for gambling habit. If gambling was legalized‚ the revenue from this industry would surpass any others. It would not just bring revenue and taxes from
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I. Benefits of Legalization Currently most everywhere in the United States‚ our legal system penalizes prostitutes and their customers for what they do as consenting adults. Money is still spent on law enforcement efforts to catch prostitutes and their customers. Once caught‚ justice departments have to process these people through very expensive systems. What are the end results? Police personnel and courtrooms are overburdened with these cases‚ having little or no impact on prostitution. The
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housed on separate pieces of land. This can include a spa‚ casino‚ theatres‚ convention halls‚ shops‚ restaurants‚ theme parks‚ sport activities along with a resort hotel. But for a resort to become an “Integrated Resort” it must have a casino. Bahamas is an island country comprising of about 700 islands off the eastern coast of United States near Cuba. The economy of the country is mostly single crop depending on the tourism industry. With the 60% of total GDP coming from the tourism industry‚
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Gambling and Public Policy RONALD M. PAVALKO Abstract The expansion of legalized gambling poses a number of issues for policymakers. Two related issues‚ which have not been dealt with extensively from a public policy perspective‚ are examined in this commentary: state responsibility for addressing pathological and problem gambling‚ and the legal status and regulation of Internet gambling. A review of the recommendations of the 1998 National Gambling Impact Study Commission on pathological and problem
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criminal justice system or treatment. The more appropriate goal is to get these two systems to work together more effectively to improve both public safety and public health. In the discussion of legalizing marijuana‚ a useful analogy can be made to gambling. MacCoun &
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The games and facilities that exist on the Casino Floor such as bingo and keno‚ slot machine‚ table games and the reason why people visiting casinos. It also explains the importance of Gaming Entertainment and why people have an addiction to Gambling. It shows also the different casinos and corporations that help the Gaming Entertainment famous such as Mirage Resorts in Las Vegas‚ ITT Corporation and the famous MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. Gaming Entertainment provides also the different Career
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back in 2005 that says that the relatives of the former president‚ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo‚ are operators of the said game as well. It is because of these Scandals that made the other politicians think that it might be better if Jueteng would be legalized. Senator Jinggoy Estrada filed Senate Bill Number 2548 or the proposed “Jueteng Act of 2010” and Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile wanted the same thing as well. Enrile said‚ “I’m in favor of legalizing and if possible we’ll pass this and
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around frantically because police officers dressed in body armor with assault rifles in hand are entering into the gambling room. This illegal casino‚ commonly known as a game room is being raided by a police squad. These raids are becoming more and more common within the Greater Houston area and across our entire state. Many sheriff departments are deciding to make a move on these gambling rooms that are within their tight-knit communities corrupting it. As Sheriff Freddie Poor said‚ “If the state isn’t
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Prenecia Rolle Mrs. Johnson College English 122 8th April‚ 2013 Same Sex Marriage in the Bahamas Heterosexual marriage is commonly understood to be between two persons of the opposite sex. Same sex marriage on the others hand‚ is understood to be between two person of the same sex. Although same sex marriage is a very controversial topic‚ the more it appears in the news the heated the topic becomes. Homosexual have been widely accepted by the majority may it be a gay or lesbian. Some persons
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