Topic: Gambling law

Illegal lotteries, known as 'numbers', are being run on island by international crime syndicates and are generating between $30 million and $50 million a year, legislators were told during a debate on amending Cayman's gambling laws.

Today's editorial cartoon.

Late last week, Attorney General Samuel Bulgin announced that government was calling “time out” on proposed amendments which would have drastically increased penalties for a wide variety of gambling-related crimes.