Trinidad and Tobago plans to crack down on illegal lotteries, with the black market size being three times that of the legal market.

Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Finance, Davendranath Tancoo, announced in the budget statement that the government plans to crack down on the illegal lottery market, which is estimated to have an annual revenue of 9 billion Trinidadian dollars (about 1.32 billion US dollars), three times the size