Gambling addiction 'just like cocaine'

A COUNCIL is being established to address the issue of problem gambling in The Bahamas, Health Minister Dr Duane Sands announced yesterday...

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Sands: Gambling addiction problem destroys families

THE Public Hospitals Authority, Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre and the Bahamas Gaming Operators Association held their first symposium yesterday highlighting gambling addiction.The purpose of the symposium was, in part, to integrate a gambling addi

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Gambling is a Vice that Persons Secretly Indulge

Minister of Health Dr. the Hon. Duane Sands said gambling has been a vice that persons have secretly indulged, and for that reason, unlike most of the public health challenges in The Bahamas...

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Sands initiative to target gambling addiction

HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands is hoping a gambling addiction symposium to be held at the end of this month will provide assistance and "some remedy" to individuals and households affected by compulsive gambling. On Wednesday, Dr Sands said reports

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Gambling and the new Bahamas

Dear Editor, While driving on Wulff Road recently, I could not help but notice that a building that was previously occupied by a commercial bank is now occupied by a gambling house. In my view, it is a further prophetic sign of the new Bahamas. [...]
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A little less gambling?would be a good thing

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Mistakes made by both parties on Bahamian gambling industry

Dear Editor, I don't like gambling. I think it's addictive, it harms children's wellbeing and it takes money from the poor. If gambling is allowed, it should be in the form of a lottery with all money earmarked for education and health. That's my opinion. [...]
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'Stop tax rises': Hundreds march to oppose VAT hike and gambling levy

HUNDREDS of people marched from the Southern Recreation Grounds to Rawson Square yesterday morning to protest the proposed 60 percent increase in value added tax and a new sliding scale tax on web shops...

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Business man says people will suffer if gambling issue not addressed

A VETERAN businessman yesterday said the Bahamian people and economy will suffer if the gambling issue is not addressed.

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Gambling symposium held

THE serious effects of gambling and its impact on the well-being of a person's mental and physical health and productivity in the workplace were some of the items discussed at the recently held Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre's Overcoming Gambling Addiction Symposium held last week.

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