Topic: PAGCOR waiting for the approval to reopen land-based casinos. - page 5. (Read 2299 times)

I don't want to talk about politics since after all that you say is just what you read on the news.

Those POGO's that don't pay their taxes are those tagged as illegitimate POGOs. Like in any other business, there are good and bad. Some owners are lazy to work on their tax pending and the result, the penalty increase year by year. In general, there are lots of POGOS that complying with the law compared to those shitty ones. My brother is working in a POGO industry so I'm aware of their industry as I also employed there before.

And authorities are doing their best to track down these POGOs and for the record some already comply with the law even before the pandemic hits hard the country.

You are right in here. However, there are still issues that resides behind the darkness of PAGCOR. The POGOs that still haven't paid taxes. Yes, we need money to both survive and use it for the research or for the maintenance of the pandemic, more specifically on health factors and frontliners' salaries. Yet, recently (and even as of now) PAGCOR investigates POGOs (mostly online platforms and employees are Chinese) with why their taxes are still pending. If they would focus on finishing recent problems first with their taxes, maybe they can use it for the pandemic and the people whom are trying to flatten the curve. Then if they can't comply nor pay their taxes as early as possible, they mustn't be operating now.

That's correct, therefore they need to earn from their operations and private operations to fund all the financial needs.

Why people are only looking at the bad side, which is when they resume the virus will spread, but not looking at the other side which would solve the problem in our economy. What we are experiencing now is the pandemic which is a health issue but it has a big effect on our economy that is why people will financially struggle especially those minimum wage earners who only rely on their daily income.

I think it is better for them to resume it now.

As it will not just contribute to the workers and the economy, people will also have a way to ease their minds during this pandemic. Since here in our country, workers are starting to go back in their offices or jobs, I think it is time to resume. Also, they said that they will follow procedures so as long as they keep that up, gamblers and workers there would be fine.

As long that they follow the protocols to avoid spreading the virus.

If they will work according to how WHO/DOH procedures, it's possible to reopen and gain some help from this business.
We all know how the government are trying to earn to continue surviving from this pandemic virus, there are lots of
expenses especially from the medical aspects of the society.

Not only for the employees but mostly on the government side as when it creates revenue, they can use the funds to combat the pandemic.
Employees of casinos may earn millions of pesos combine per year but PAGCOR is making billions in a yearly basis, and that is a big contribution for our economy.

If we will always look at the risk,we can never survive as we need money to combat the pandemic and we can't afford to borrow money again which will only result to burden of our taxpayer since we don't know when this pandemic is over.

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well following Las Vegas and UK opening their Casinos ,i think at least Philippines will also start their gambling operation again because of the Big financial problem like now that all of the people are relying in government for Help and support.
also i am sure that many big time gamblers now are longing to Bet again and satisfy their Addiction in betting.

As long that they follow the protocols to avoid spreading the virus.

If they will work according to how WHO/DOH procedures, it's possible to reopen and gain some help from this business.
We all know how the government are trying to earn to continue surviving from this pandemic virus, there are lots of
expenses especially from the medical aspects of the society.

I think it is better for them to resume it now.

As it will not just contribute to the workers and the economy, people will also have a way to ease their minds during this pandemic. Since here in our country, workers are starting to go back in their offices or jobs, I think it is time to resume. Also, they said that they will follow procedures so as long as they keep that up, gamblers and workers there would be fine.

After 2 months of strict quarantine in the Philippines, PAGCOR (Philippines Amusement and Gaming Corporation) submitted an approval to resume land-based gaming to IATF (Inter-Agency Task Force). Last month they submitted the request including the proposed safety guidelines to follow by the operators.

Last March when the Philippines started its ECQ (Enhanced Community Quarantine) where most businesses have closed, and only essential businesses remain. While the start of June, they lifted the lockdown to GCQ (General Community Quarantine) were workers and employees can go back to work and the opening of some businesses. For the whole 2 months of ECQ, most businesses have no income, same with casinos. Until now, casinos are closed and gambling is still banned in the country to avoid crowded places.

Now, PAGCOR revealed that they submitted a request to resume the operations of land-based casinos. They included safety protocols such as;
-wearing of face masks
-strict compliance of social distancing
-limiting the capacity of not more than 50% to both table games and EGMs
-preventing standing bettors or loitering in the gaming areas.  

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Some land-based casinos have already shown their preparations for the possible reopening of casinos. Safety measures include regular disinfecting of equipment, thermal scanning, sanitation mats, and more. Big casinos are being monitored, waiting if they are planning to re-open soon.

This is good news for gamblers who badly want to gamble if they allowed the reopening of casinos. But knowing the correct situation, our country has already almost 19,000 positive cases, they might reject this request. And if ever they will reopen land-based casinos, perhaps only high-class people can gamble because lower-class gamblers don't gamble in a big casino. Personally, I don't know if they will approve this request or not because unlike the gamblers, the public will probably don't want to reopen casinos.

Do you think it's safe to reopen land-based gaming knowing that the cases are still increasing by hundreds every day?

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This will indeed help the economy as it will increase the employment rate. A huge number of casino employees had been laid off, and some are on force leave since the pandemic, even with lesser number of employees that will return to work, this is a huge help not just for the mass but also to the economy since casinos can resume their operation and government will have more source of taxes.

Let's just hope the implementation of health guidelines for casino visitors will be strictly implemented to avoid having more cases on their end.

I think it is better for them to resume it now.

As it will not just contribute to the workers and the economy, people will also have a way to ease their minds during this pandemic. Since here in our country, workers are starting to go back to their offices or jobs, I think it is time to resume. Also, they said that they will follow procedures so as long as they keep that up, gamblers and workers there would be fine.

If we were to decide, would we choose that they will not resume because of the covid-19 scare? or they have to resume to contribute to the economy?

Actually yes since there are so many controversy if we talk about POGO since this is a hot topic but I see the manufacturing and other essential business opening up but the problem is the transportation where its a big challenge for the workers to walk up just to come to their respected jobs maybe the manning agency will take a look on this so that everyone will not struggle. But as we are in POGO discussion well maybe the least we can do is to trust the government since for sure they know on what they are doing if there's implementation or anything.

It wont really be that sufficient if we do talk only with POGO specially the government had implemented that continuous aid into those poor people which means if other business wont

open their doors then it wont really be that sustainable or would really be hard.So thats why they do come up into that decision on opening or approving for business to run again

because if they  do continually able to hold it up then it will surely slapped it down hard when it comes to economy topic.

That's one of the major problems most workers are facing, even if they want to go back to work, not all employers are providing them transportation services. And I can see how hard it is for the majority of workers to travel back and forth because mist of them don't have private cars, and bikes are not accessible for those who work far from their homes. Only limited public transportations are available, and they are also limiting passengers so it's difficult for them to go back to work.

As for land-based casinos, they can reopen with strict protocol but the thing is if cases would remain increasing, there's a chance that we'll go back to ECQ, and casinos won't be able to reopen. Let's just hope that new positive cases would decrease so we can start going back living in (new) normal lives.

Although the curve is not yet flattening they have opened some industries to operate, some restaurants, malls, and works are now opened only the transportation is not like bus and jeepneys which are the popular mode of transportation, people now will have to use a bicycle or walk to get into their work, Pagcor I believe can reopen they have slots there it can be reopened but with card games, they must follow strict protocols and rearrange the table arrangement so they can follow the right protoocols.

I think they should ease the restriction and let other businesses open as the government can't feed all its people. Not all people can avail of their govt benefits and so they will starve to death if they will not find a way how to earn their own money. And if everyone will wait for the govt's aid, I don't think they will see the light at the end of the tunnel.

I just can't think of reasons why the system of transportation in the country isn't good, and they prioritize PAGCOR and the opening of casinos. We're not Vegas, and gambling casinos aren't our main means of helping our economy.

Pagcor has contributed P12 billion in cash dividends to the National Treasury to fund the coronavirus fight. (READ: PSC gets 90% fund cut from Pagcor in April)

It has also given P2.5 billion to the Office of the President (OP) to help the Department of Health purchase personal protective equipment and medical supplies, and another P12 billion for the OP's socio-civic projects fund.

Although the curve is not yet flattening they have opened some industries to operate, some restaurants, malls, and works are now opened only the transportation is not like bus and jeepneys which are the popular mode of transportation, people now will have to use a bicycle or walk to get into their work, Pagcor I believe can reopen they have slots there it can be reopened but with card games, they must follow strict protocols and rearrange the table arrangement so they can follow the right protoocols.

I think they should ease the restriction and let other businesses open as the government can't feed all its people. Not all people can avail of their govt benefits and so they will starve to death if they will not find a way how to earn their own money. And if everyone will wait for the govt's aid, I don't think they will see the light at the end of the tunnel.