Day: 21 September 2018

It seems that gambling is becoming a more serious problem in the Auckland Region, and more specifically in the Waiuku. Recently, the Waiuku Networking Group, which operates especially for the ones professionally engaged in education, health and social services, welcomed two representatives of the Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand (PGF) – Narelle Nichelsen and Bonnie Lovich-Howitt. The two of them provided more detailed information about the statistics for local citizens’ spending on poker machines, also known as pokies. Provided at a time when the Gambling Harm Awareness week was…

The UK Labour Party’s plans for tighter regulation of the gambling sector have been backed by the Christian public policy charity CARE. As Casino Guardian reported yesterday, the new proposals made by the Labours seek to ban TV and online gambling adverts during live sports events, to suspend the use of credit cards for gambling services payments, as well as to impose a new obligatory levy on gambling operators in order to fund research and treatment of problem gambling behaviour among local citizens. A few days ago, the deputy leader…