But they have often kept their doors shut to the truly impoverished, preferring to target customers with money, according to Dr Anthony Pickles of the Department of Social Anthropology at Cambridge University.<\/p>\n
It helped that legislators deliberately established a high minimum bet for the machines \u2013 starting at around $20.<\/p>\n
But Barker does not believe the poor will be kept out the proposed casino.<\/p>\n
PNG certainly doesn\u2019t have the laws, penalties, governance, education, or welfare capacity that Australia has, and it has serious law and order problems already. It certainly shouldn\u2019t want to worsen the situation, and having a major casino will certainly worsen the situation,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Paga CEO George Hallit said the casino would directly and indirectly create thousands of jobs and boost tourism to the region.<\/p>\n
According to the US State Department, Port Moresby suffers from high unemployment, with up to half of the population living in squatter settlements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Papua New Guinea\u2019s first casino could magnify social problems in the South Pacific nation, according to critics, who also say the proposal lacks transparency. The Guardian reports that PNG\u2019s National Gaming Control Board (NGCB) signed a deal ten days ago with the Paga Hill Development Corporation to bring a casino to capital Port Moresby. Backers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":175751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69069,62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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