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Casino shifting to Commonwealth’s minimum control standards
The Commonwealth Casino Commission has approved the minimum internal control standards for Saipan’s exclusive casino licensee, Best Sunshine International, Ltd., and expects a transition to these within the coming month.
The minimum internal control standards, or MICS, is the entire aspect of the burgeoning gaming industry’s operations and provides the “what-to-dos” for security, surveillance, cashier, and slots operations, among many others, for example.
The casino regulators adopted their MICS last April 5.
“Now that we adopted the Commonwealth’s MICS. We gave them 60 days to comply with ours,” commission executive director Edward C. Deleon Guerrero told Saipan Tribune last week.
“They have 60 days to comply with your MICS,” he said, “They are free do a lot more but they cannot go lower than our minimum standards.”
Guerrero said the control standards detailed the “hour-to-hour” and “what to do” in situations for security, for example.
Prior to adoption and implementation of the MICS, the commission had adopted on an interim-basis the casino’s standard operating procedures when regulators allowed them to open their “temporary” casino in the T-Galleria last July.
