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Another casino on the wings
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Posted on Jan 24 2001
The Issue: Another casino investment is being prepared for entry into Tinian’s gaming industry.
Our View: The gaming industry should do well when Tinian’s commercial ports are completed.
Interesting, puzzling, mind boggling or call it anything you wish. But while investment has come to a screeching halt in the main business center, the Tinian Gaming Commission has moved one step further into wrapping up approval of the second casino outfit this week.
There’s nothing mystical about it. It’s all a matter of positive attitude toward investments even in the toughest of times. Its leadership has sought some tax breaks for the first casino investor. It did so in order to protect such an investment from turning belly up.
This attitude should have been the forte of the rest of NMI’s leadership in an effort to slam the brakes of any further decline in revenue generation. It goes to show that Tinian doesn’t subscribe to the scarcity mentality. And, it has paid off handsomely, too.
The latest casino investor has included the establishment of a domestic and international airline company to support its investment. Such a plan augurs well with major improvements now underway to expand the Tinian airport. It should enable bringing in regular and high rollers to partake in a form of visitor diversification from the triad of the sun, sea and sand.
The Gaming Commission is pleasantly a forward-looking group. It is preparing to make changes to the current law in order to accommodate new trends in the global casino industry. This is what’s called leadership at its best.
Tinian being the tiniest island community in the NMI doesn’t mean its vision is equally small. It has done something most other islands here haven’t been able to handle with positive attitude and firm resolve. It means the rest must descend on Tinian to find out what went right so to learn from it with, well, humility. Si Yuus Maase`!
