Even as Guyana prepares for the opening of its first ever casino, controversy is raging elsewhere in the Caribbean over whether casino gambling should be wholeheartedly embraced as part of the regional entertainment industry.
Casino gambling remains the subject of controversies in the Caribbean
The debate commonly pits the school of thought that regards the presence of casinos as a potentially lucrative sub-sector of the wider entertainment sector against the predominantly Judeo-Christian point-of-view that perceives gambling as what a local cleric has described as ‘a sin against God.”
While the church in the region has been at the centre of the anti-gambling lobby, social commentators have weighed in on the side of keeping casino gambling out on grounds that have to with what they fear might be a continual frittering away of personal and family assets arising out of an addiction to gambling.
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