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News Brief: Five men were arrested and charged with taking part in a $4 million-a-year gambling ring that ran between New Hyde Park and Costa Rica, police and prosecutors said today.

GTECH Holdings’ subsidiary, GTECH Brazil Ltda., has signed a new one-year contract with Caixa Economica Federal, the administrator of the National Lottery in Brazil.

Lottery & Wagering Solutions Inc. reports that its Board of Directors had decided to terminate all of its operations in Suriname.

International News Brief: With only a couple of days to go, casinos in Suriname are scrambling to meet a deadline set for February 28 or face closure by the authorities.

Jan L. Jones, former two-term mayor of Las Vegas and current Harrah's executive, will deliver the keynote address opening the seventh annual Caribbean Gaming & Hospitality Conference.

International News Brief: As Super Bowl weekend approaches, gambling sites ready themselves for a busy weekend and also the threat of having their service interrupted by online extortionists.

Lottery & Wagering Solutions Inc. reports that Suriname Leisure Company A.V.V. , a joint venture entity owned fifty percent by LWSL, was evicted from its premises in the Plaza Hotel in Paramaribo, Suriname.

News Brief: BetonSports says a government crackdown on gambling in the US had caused radio stations to cancel about $10m-worth of its advertising campaigns during the crucial American football season now under way.

News Brief: The owner of BetCRIS.com is determined to fight what's fast becoming the scourge of Internet-based businesses: high-tech protection rackets in which gangs of computer hackers choke off traffic to Web sites whose operators refuse their demands.

PlayersOnly.com has added a new poker room to its existing sports book and casino.

Senticore, Inc. has been awarded a broad-ranging casino gaming permit by the government of Venezuela to operate a complete land-based and Internet casino on Margarita Island.

he Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and several trade show partners have planned a first combined convention sales conference before South American business leaders and media outlets.

CasinoWebcam and Home Gambling Network today announced a settlement in their dispute regarding CasinoWebcam's rights in U.S. patent 5,800,268.

BETonSPORTS reports the key drivers of its global growth strategy.

SportsBook911.com is predicting that Google would have to slash its IPO price.

GTECH Holdings report that it has received notice from the SEC that it has approved an investigation to examine media reports about public corruption issues in Brazil.

International News Brief: Psychologists and support groups who treat compulsive gamblers in Brazil say they've run out of patients since the country's bingo halls reopened.

International News Brief: Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will make a new bid to ban bingo gaming after the Senate rejected his previous attempt in a heavy defeat for the government, a spokesman says.

Jockey Club de Sao Paulo has opened competitive bidding for management of its horseracing properties.

International News Brief: Brazil's government won a much-needed political victory after the lower house of Congress passed a measure outlawing bingo parlours in a move to stamp out a source of illegal campaign funding.