Dear Editor,
It was refreshing to hear your editor, Candia Dames, bring a balanced and rational perspective to the gaming issue against a backdrop of anti-white, anti-foreign hysteria on one of your radio shows.
It would appear that some people are stuck in a time warp and, 40 years later, are still blaming non-Bahamian investors and white people for this country's many failings.
Dames is correct that the pro-gaming lobby should address its grievances to the government, not the investor.
Foreign investors don't craft laws; governments do.
The view that hotels shouldn't be able to modernize gaming simply because Bahamians voted against allowing Bahamians to gamble is childish and vindictive.
Hotels must remain competitive if they are to succeed in this challenging economic environment and any attempt to stifle their growth (and ability to generate extra revenue and create more jobs) because of something they have no control over would be cutting off the nose to spite the face.
What would happen if Atlantis, which employs about 8,000 Bahamians, folded? Would black Bahamians, or any Bahamian for that matter, step in to fill the void?
- Athena Damianos

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