Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Online Casino Guide

Legal casino gambling age in Saint Vincent and The Grenadines

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, a small multi-island state in the Eastern Caribbean, has a narrow and largely state-centred gambling sector. Its main lawful form of gambling is the national lottery run by the National Lotteries Authority (NLA), a statutory body established in 1984 whose surplus is used to support sport, culture and education. According to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) mutual evaluation report published in January 2024, there are no casinos operating in the country, although casinos remain within the anti-money laundering framework should one open. No licensing regime for online casinos or remote betting was identified in the official and press sources reviewed for this guide, and the government that held office until late 2025 publicly opposed the introduction of slot machines. This guide sets out what can be verified about the history, legal framework, regulators, taxation and player protection, and flags clearly where official information could not be found.

Key points

The National Lotteries Authority, launched on 18 June 1984, is the only gambling operator whose activities are regularly documented in official and press sources. It runs draw games such as Lotto, Super 6, Play 4 and 3D.
The CFATF’s 2024 mutual evaluation states that “there are no casinos operating in SVG”. Casinos are nevertheless listed as non-regulated service providers that must register with the Financial Intelligence Unit under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2013.
No domestic licensing regime for online casinos was found. The Financial Services Authority, which supervises the offshore financial sector and virtual asset businesses, does not list gambling among its regulated sectors.
Tax on NLA lottery winnings, introduced in 2005 at 10 per cent above a threshold, was removed with effect from 1 November 2014.
No national self-exclusion scheme, gambling helpline or published responsible-gambling code was identified.

Last reviewed: 13 October 2026.

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Historical development

Organised, legal gambling in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has developed mainly around a public lottery. Searchlight, the Kingstown weekly, reported in its 2005 feature Lottery comes of age that the National Lotteries Authority “was launched June 18, 1984”. The same feature recorded revenue of more than $21 million in 2004, driven by the daily 3D game, and the NLA’s move in early 2005 into its own headquarters on Paul’s Avenue in Kingstown. Its manager at that time, the feature noted, had been with the Authority since its inception.

Regional cooperation has been part of the lottery’s growth. In December 2004 the NLA launched Super 6, a Windward Islands draw game that replaced the earlier Win Lotto shared by Grenada, Dominica and Saint Lucia, with a base jackpot of EC$200,000 and draws twice a week. The launch report quoted the lottery’s independent auditors as saying their role was to ensure that all draws maintained their integrity (Searchlight, December 2004). A fixed-prize daily game, Play 4, was introduced to the public on 1 December 2014, with bets of $1 to $10 and prizes of $200 to $50,000 (Searchlight, December 2014).

Reported sales grew steadily over the following two decades. The figures below are taken from contemporary press reports of statements by NLA officials. They are not audited accounts, and the earlier reports do not always state the currency, although the 2022 report gives figures in Eastern Caribbean dollars (EC$).

Year	Reported NLA sales or revenue	Source
2004	over $21 million	Searchlight, 2005
2007	$39 million	Searchlight, 2008
2008	$42.5 million	Searchlight, 2009
2009	$50.3 million (record)	Searchlight, 2009
2020/21	EC$84.3 million	Searchlight, 2022
2021/22 (year to 31 July 2022)	EC$91.7 million	Searchlight, 2022
2025	“over 90 million dollars” a year	Searchlight, 2025

Casino gaming has had a more uncertain history. A casino formerly operated at the Emerald Valley site on the leeward side of St Vincent. In June 2022 the then Prime Minister, Ralph Gonsalves, told NBC Radio that a casino had previously operated at the site and that a “small, modern” casino would be reopened there as part of a project in which the NLA was investing, with the site’s land bought from National Properties Limited (Searchlight, June 2022). On the Grenadine island of Canouan, Searchlight described in 2005 a European-style casino at a luxury resort (Searchlight, August 2005). According to the casino reference site LCB, both venues later closed, the Canouan casino in 2010; this could not be confirmed from an official source. Whatever happened to the Emerald Valley plan, the CFATF evaluators found no casino operating when they visited the country in March 2023.

The lottery has also served as a policy instrument. In June 2021, during the COVID-19 vaccination campaign, the government announced raffles of land for vaccinated residents and said it was in discussion with the national lottery about a draw restricted to vaccinated people (Searchlight, June 2021).

Legal framework

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is a common-law jurisdiction. Its laws are published in revised editions, but a consolidated, searchable official legislation portal comparable to those of larger states was not accessible for this review. As a result, the text of the country’s general gaming, lotteries and betting legislation, including the statute under which the NLA operates, could not be read from an official source. Some secondary sources refer to a single gambling, lotteries and betting statute, but its exact title, chapter number and contents could not be confirmed, and they are not relied on here.

What can be established from official documents is the following:

The National Lotteries Authority is a statutory body. Press reports consistently describe it as having been set up in 1984 to support sport and culture, and NBC Radio reported in November 2023 that the NLA invests more than $3 million a year in education, sport and culture (NBC SVG, 2023).
The Proceeds of Crime Act 2013 treats casinos as non-regulated service providers (NRSPs), a local term for the businesses that international standards call designated non-financial businesses and professions. Under section 155(1) every NRSP must register with the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), and under section 155(3) failure to register is an offence punishable on summary conviction by imprisonment for 12 months, a fine of $20,000, or both, and on indictment by imprisonment for five years, a fine of $100,000, or both (Commerce and Intellectual Property Office notice, 2022).
The Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Regulations: the CFATF report cites regulation 36 of these Regulations, together with section 151 of the Proceeds of Crime Act, as the basis for designating the FIU as the supervisory authority for casinos (CFATF, 2024).
The Virtual Assets Act 2022, administered by the Financial Services Authority, regulates virtual asset businesses. It is a financial-services statute, not a gambling law, and does not by itself authorise any gambling activity (FSA).

The practical effect is that the country’s anti-money laundering law anticipates the possibility of casinos but, on the evidence of the 2024 evaluation, there is no operating casino for it to apply to. Readers who need the precise text of the gaming and lottery legislation should consult the revised laws held by the Attorney General’s Chambers or the House of Assembly in Kingstown.

Regulator and licensing model

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines does not have a dedicated, publicly active gambling regulator of the kind found in licensing jurisdictions, such as a gaming commission that publishes a register of licensees. Its model is best described as a state lottery model: lawful commercial gambling is concentrated in a statutory body, the NLA, whose proceeds are directed to public purposes, rather than in a competitive market of licensed private operators.

The NLA’s own website lists its draw games as Lotto, Super 6, Play 4 and 3D, and describes a network of sales agents across the Windward, Leeward, Mesopotamia and Grenadines regions. According to figures given by the NLA’s general manager in August 2022, each dollar of sales was divided as follows: 60 cents to prizes, 21 cents retained by the NLA to finance its programmes, 10 cents in management fees and 9 cents in commission to its 95 agents. The Authority then had 128 staff (Searchlight, September 2022). In November 2023 it launched a new game, InstaCash (NBC SVG).

Oversight of casinos, should any operate, is split between licensing, which is not documented in any accessible official source, and anti-money laundering supervision by the FIU. The CFATF report states that the FIU “is the supervisory authority for casinos, lawyers, accountants, real estate agents, and jewellers” and that “there are no casinos in SVG” (CFATF report, January 2024). The Financial Services Authority supervises international business companies, international banks and insurers, mutual funds, virtual asset businesses and domestic non-bank financial institutions. Gambling does not appear among its regulated sectors.

Online gambling: what is permitted and how it is enforced

No statute or regulator was found that licenses online casino games, online sports betting or online poker in or from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The NLA’s online presence, as described on its website, consists of draw results and a lottery application; it does not offer casino-style games.

There is a historical claim that the country once licensed online gaming. According to LCB, a local gaming authority issued some online gaming licences in the 1990s, and the sites concerned closed around 2000. This could not be confirmed from any official source, and no current register of such licences exists.

No evidence was found of the enforcement tools used in jurisdictions that actively restrict offshore gambling. In particular, the sources reviewed recorded:

no published list of prohibited or blocked gambling websites;
no direction to internet service providers to block access to gambling sites;
no restriction on payments to foreign gambling operators; and
no specific rules on the advertising of online gambling.

The absence of a licensing regime should not be read as an authorisation. The legal position of an offshore operator that accepts customers from the country turns on general gaming and lottery legislation whose current text could not be verified, and no domestic court decision on remote gambling was identified. The most accurate description is that online gambling is unregulated domestically: it is neither licensed nor, on the available evidence, actively policed.

Position of players

No source reviewed for this guide sets out an offence committed by a player who gambles with a foreign online operator, and no reported prosecution, fine or warning directed at players for this conduct was found. Equally, no official statement declares such play lawful. Players should therefore understand three practical consequences of the absence of domestic regulation:

there is no local regulator to which a complaint about an offshore website, an unpaid win or a closed account can be made;
no domestic rules on game fairness, segregation of player funds, identity checks or age verification apply to such sites; and
any protection depends on the rules of the jurisdiction, if any, in which the operator is licensed.

Within the country, lawful participation in gambling is effectively limited to the NLA’s games, bought from its agents or headquarters. Minimum age requirements for buying lottery tickets were not stated on the NLA’s website and could not be verified.

Taxation

Players

A tax on lottery and other gaming winnings was introduced in the 2005 Budget Address, presented to Parliament on 6 December 2004. As reported by iWitness News, it imposed 10 per cent on winnings from games of chance, including NLA games, above $500, and was expected to raise about $1 million a year for sporting and cultural facilities, including debt service on the redevelopment of the Arnos Vale sporting complex. By 2014 the threshold applied to NLA winnings was reported as $400.

The government removed the tax on winnings from all NLA games with effect from 1 November 2014. A prime ministerial statement explained that the government was “cognizant of the importance of the NLA to sports and culture” (Searchlight, October 2014). Since that date, prizes from NLA games have not been subject to this tax. The treatment of winnings from other sources, such as foreign online gambling, was not addressed in any official source found.

Operators

No specific gaming tax, gross gaming revenue levy (a tax calculated on stakes received minus prizes paid) or casino licence fee schedule could be verified from an official source. The NLA, as a statutory body, applies its surplus directly to public purposes rather than paying a gambling duty in the conventional sense. Whether value added tax applies to lottery tickets or gambling services could not be confirmed.

Consumer protection and responsible gambling

No national self-exclusion register, statutory limit-setting scheme or dedicated gambling helpline was identified for Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The NLA’s website, as reviewed, contains no responsible-gambling section. Neither the CFATF report nor the other official sources reviewed refer to a gambling-harm strategy.

Protection therefore rests largely on the narrow structure of the market: there are no operating casinos and no licensed gaming-machine sector, and lottery products are sold through a state body. Residents who are concerned about their own or someone else’s gambling may seek help through general health and counselling services, and from international support organisations that offer online help. General guidance is available in our responsible gambling guide.

Gaming machines have been a recurring policy question in the region. In May 2025 Searchlight reported, under the headline “No Slot Machines for SVG”, that Prime Minister Gonsalves had said that some CARICOM governments had discussed a regional lottery company, majority-owned by a US firm, that would also run video slot machines. Speaking to the press in the Cabinet Room, he said he was “particularly concerned about slot” machines and questioned why the country could not run its own lottery (Searchlight, May 2025).

Recent and upcoming developments

Anti-money laundering evaluation (2024). The CFATF fourth-round mutual evaluation, adopted in November 2023 and published in January 2024, confirmed that no casino was operating and that the FIU is the designated supervisor for casinos (CFATF).
Slot machines rejected (May 2025). The Gonsalves government stated its opposition to a proposed regional lottery arrangement that would include video slot machines (Searchlight).
Change of government (November 2025). At the general election of 27 November 2025, the New Democratic Party won 14 of the 15 seats according to preliminary results, defeating the Unity Labour Party’s bid for a sixth consecutive term (iWitness News). Godwin Friday was sworn in as Prime Minister on 28 November 2025 (One News St Vincent). No statement of the new government’s gambling policy, and no gaming bill or new regulator, was found as of October 2026.
Emerald Valley. No report was found confirming that the casino planned at Emerald Valley in 2022 has opened. The 2024 CFATF finding that no casino operates is the most recent official statement.

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