According to the amendment Bill, casino legalize may be issued to a new hotel or resort complex with a minimum of 150 rooms and holding a minimum rating prescribed by regulations.
It also provides for the establishment of a Gaming Authority, which may issue to any person, subject to any condition it thinks fit, a casino premises legalize authorizing any place to be operated as a casino; a casino operator’s legalize authorizing the person to operate a casino.
The Bill also says that no more than three casino premises legalize may be issued in respect of any one of the ten administrative regions. It is believed that the Bill has been rushed through Parliament to allow for Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort to provide casino gaming facilities for guests who would be staying at the hotel over the period that Guyana would be hosting the Super Eight matches of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) Cricket World Cup 2007 championship starting on March 28.