Antigua Shooting for “White List”

August 16, 2007

Antigua has announced that they are certain that they will make the “white list” that is issued by the UK government. The UK government has decided to restrict all of their online gambling advertising to those that have actual credible licenses. With this announcement, the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda said that they are confident of making the list as their online gambling requirements are very similar to that of the UK Gambling Commission.

The UK’s Department of Culture, Media and Services has already released a list of acceptable jurisdictions, and said that they were considering adding Antigua and Kahnawake in Canada. Right now Alderney and Isle of Man are the only two who hae made the list, while the other applications are being reviewed. Alexander in Canada, Tasmania in Australia, and Netherlands Antilles have all been rejected already. Gibraltar and Malta have conditional approval.

However, Antigua maintains that their online gambling approval is pretty much a done deal, and they don’t foresee any reason why they would not be approved. They say that they are strict in their online gambling licensing with regards to underage online gambling, protection, fairness, and policing of illicit activities and crimes.

The UK’s white list is something that will be continually reviewed and updated, and Antigua says that they are “looking forward to working with the United Kingdom” and obtaining online gambling licensing approval. They are consistently working to develop international standards, and this won’t stop whether they get on the online gambling licensing list or not.



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