Guyana’s first Las Vegas style casino is now open with 300 slot machines and 11 gaming tables (2 roulette tables, 7 card games – blackjack and poker and 2 Texas Holdem).The Casino is located at the Princess Hotel on the East Bank of Demerara. The casino is not a 24-hour facility as yet, and will only be open from midday to 4 am but not to locals. Director of operations for Princess Casinos in the Americas Oguz Tayanc  said that the casino had created 130 jobs for local persons and  that in the next two months, this number would increase to 160. He said once the entertainment centre of the hotel became operational the number of local jobs would increase to 200. The casino’s management is promising live entertainment to its patrons and  there would be persons coming from Canada and the USA specifically to play in the casino.   The casino also hopes to benefit from a number of upcoming sporting events, including the ICC Twenty/20 World Cup,international motor racing meet, West Indies v.s Zimbabwe series, caribbean  and regional rugby tournament , karate and power-lifting tournaments which will be hosted in Guyana. Tayanc said that plans were still on board to have the local casino be a satellite casino for the World Poker tournament which is slated for June of this year.  He said that from May/June of this year it was expected to have satellite tournaments in the casino.

Passengers arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport were treated with a simple “Welcome home for Mash 2010′ activity this morning.
This activity was hosted by the Ministry of Tourism, Guyana Tourism Authority, Cheddi Jagan International Airport and Banks D.I.H Limited. Visitors were treated with Banks refreshments and entertained by models wearing the Banks 2010 costumes.

Happy Mashramani to all Guyanese.