The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Funding NHI - more Gambling?

I read that certain people are proposing a further adding of a National Lottery the proceeds to go to funding NHI.

It is as crazy as lowering Customs Duties on cigarettes and alcohol which as we all know the smoking or drinking of them can cause cancer and kill you.

So we are going to drive our society on Gambling?

Travel to any Family Island and witness the social problems the legalising of Numbers has caused forget the Numbers-Boys spending millions we have an enormous social problem caused and created with the proliferation of Gambling.

Oh we are so proud of this House and its owner - all their fancy this and that - huge homes, yachts and jets - the parties they throw but what about the people whose last dime they take?

Will the Numbers Boys take responsibility for the serious mess we are heading into in our banking system because the US Treasury is not satisfied from where the massive amount of moneys of the Numbers boys are originating from?

I wonder if all the supposed increase in employment is actually only in the Numbers sector?

From the start the legalising of an operation which for years operated outside of the Law with total immunity should never have been sanctioned - if there was an interest in Gambling then a National Lottery should have been the platform - The PLP sent a negative message rewarding the law-breaker. What next rewarding a drug smuggler with some concession?

VAT should be charged on winnings..... Mr Minister of Finance fix that please.

More gambling please No!

K MINNS

Nassau,

August 18, 2016.