I READ with interest your story in the Financial Gleaner of June 14 on Supreme Ventures. Not being a gambler but an occasional player, I wonder how the $6.8 billion has really helped the Jamaican economy?
The dollar is still sliding in comparison to EC countries and our foreign currency earnings, to put it mildly are not great. Is gambling the way to build an economy? I suppose everyone now sees how fragile 'sandy' tourism is. Nothing beats or even comes close to agricultural and industrial production.
If our nation is going to improve then we must produce and not glorify legal three-card monte gambling. It is a sorry joke being played on those least able to afford it, a pie in the sky illusion of hoping to get rich. And said Jesus unto them, "It is written, my house shall be called the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves." Matt. 21:13.
