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RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

As Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo in­ten­si­fies ef­forts to clamp down on il­le­gal gam­bling while ex­pand­ing state-reg­u­lat­ed lot­tery gam­ing to Sun­days, some booths in San Fer­nan­do re­port­ed steady busi­ness on the first week­end of the new draw sched­ule yes­ter­day.

At Dun­can Vil­lage, San Fer­nan­do, Bob­by’s Restau­rant and Bar pro­pri­etor Ram­lochan Bhag­wan­dass said sales were brisk but mixed, as the change has not ful­ly caught on with all pa­trons de­spite ad­ver­tis­ing through tra­di­tion­al me­dia and so­cial plat­forms.