Baguio council blocks operation of e-bingo

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Two resolutions endorsing an e-bingo application were repealed by the city council this week, but the move stopped short of reasserting a “no gambling” policy which it enacted several times after the 1990 Luzon earthquake devastated Baguio.

The resolutions were returned unsigned by Mayor Benjamin Magalong, who suggested holding a public consultation instead.About 50 position papers objecting all forms of gambling had been endorsed by different groups in the city.

“While people are anxious and downcast due to the crisis brought about by [the COVID-19 pandemic], we are being faced with more degrading and troublesome news about our councilors [wanting] to have bingo stalls in our locality,” Bendico was quoted in an April report of the Union of Catholic Asia News.

The council had put off Tabanda’s repeal measure in several sessions but addressed it this week after RCC Global president Romeo Chong informed Vice Mayor Faustino Olowan on June 23 that his company was withdrawing its request for an endorsement. In 2002, it passed Resolution No. 122 “expressing the sentiment of the people of Baguio and the policy of the city government against gambling.” It was part of a series of resolutions that blocked the introduction here of the government-run Small Town Lottery.But this policy was overturned when the council allowed e-bingo operations in 2015.

 

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