Manning, seems to have in no way tried to have influenced the Prime Minister in his decision to stop the state lottery rather than direct it towards the country’s own educational and institutional funding purposes. Trinidad & Tobago has apparently only recently opened a new University of Trinidad & Tobago (UTT) which could have well made more than sufficient use of the state’s lottery funds.
On further investigation of Trinidad & Tobago’s state lottery system however, it was not clear that the state lottery supported any public funds as is typical in most countries which operate state lotteries as a means of revenue. In countries where state lotteries are regarded as meaningful revenue, citizens are given the democratic right to gamble, if only to support state institutions; in essence, ?vice? is turned into ?the good?. Through such methods, gamblers are free to engage in a ‘vice’ on their own responsibility whilst supporting state funding for much-needed education and state construction.
To date, our team has not been able to decipher whether the Trinidad & Tobago state lottery was ever mandated to report on its income and what the funds from the lottery were directed to achieve as a beneficial goal to the country’s citizens.
The opposition party in Trinidad & Tobago, having already delivered its’ response to Mr.
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