Key Takeaways
- A law to legalize online gambling could be presented to the Bahamian House of Assembly as early as next week according to MP Leslie Millar.
- The financial provisions of the bill led to a delay for consultation with local banks to confirm their support.
- Opposition from the Gaming Board Chairman Dr Andre Rollins led to the government removing him from his position on August 22—possibly finally clearing the way for the bill to be presented in the House of Assembly.
A law to legalize online gambling could be presented to the Bahamian House of Assembly as early as next week, according to MP Leslie Millar.
The law was originally proposed in May last year, and was extremely restrictive in its scope. Its original form only permitted land based casinos to offer online gaming to tourists—so long as those tourists were legally allowed to play online in their home countries.
Millar has come out strongly against those restrictions.
