The poor can’t take the chance

THE EDITOR: Gambling is one of the roots providing life to the seemingly insatiable increase in crime.

We have membership clubs which cater for the rich. No problem here but sucking the money like blood from the poor we have so many other forms that seem as if they could form a serpent and strangle our democracy. Play Whe and Lotto are the most obvious. Why my MP brought them in, I don’t know.  When he did so, thousands of poor lottery vendors were put out of work. Those that were true gamblers were also satisfied by the whe whe banker who generally contributed to local society and didn’t run the money to USA as he wasn’t a foreign corporation. Racing pools continue to operate and are controlled by a small clique. Apart from destroying local racing, they suck on the poor and take them away from their work. My local MP, who is also the Prime Minister, should consider quadrupling the taxes on gambling.

RICHARD  RAMSINGH
Marabella