The new industry body representing Antigua-licensed online gaming operators has laid out its plan to restore Antigua’s position as a premier online gaming licensing jurisdiction.

Nigel Pigott (pictured), president of the Antigua Leisure and Gaming Association (ALGA), recently unveiled the new group’s website Alga.ag. The site contains an unsparing assessment of the factors that contributed to Antigua’s decline as a licensing jurisdiction, while offering detailed proposals for assisting the government in turning this ship around.

Antigua has endured a decade-plus decline as an online gambling licensing hub, from a peak of nearly 200 licensees to just eight. The ALGA believes it’s not too late to pull Antigua back from the brink, but this will require “a fundamental re-evaluation of the country’s approach to the sector and its value-proposition to both existing and potential licensees.”

ALGA president Pigott told CalvinAyre.com that while restoring Antigua’s gaming industry to its former glories will be difficult, “there is no reason why the industry, the government and regulators should not come together to advance the structure of things to a more modern competitive international standard. Allowing Antigua to showcase all the great things that historically made and will continue to make it a premier place to do business.”