The 172 casinos listed for Barbados hold mainly these licences: Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission (51), Anjouan Offshore Finance Authority (gaming licences) (44), Malta Gaming Authority (41). For deposits and withdrawals, Visa (112), Mastercard (108), Skrill (101), Bank Transfer (SEPA / SWIFT) (88), Neteller (88) appear most often in their banking pages. A live casino is available at 157 of these sites; 106 take crypto payments. The average rating of these casinos is 6.9 out of 10.

Legal situation in Barbados

Barbados has no specific law on online gambling and no system for licensing online casinos. The main statute for the sector is the Betting and Gaming Duties Act, Cap. 60, enacted in 1977 and amended by Act No. 16 of 2010. Administered for tax purposes by the Barbados Revenue Authority, it sets duties and fees for lotteries, casinos and betting operations, while licensing, enforcement and penalties are detailed in the Betting and Gaming Duties Regulations of 1979. The Act and its regulations predate the internet and do not deal with online, remote or interactive gambling.

Gambling policy has been discussed in several budgets. In the 2019 budget debate, the opposition pointed to a proposed 20% withholding tax on gambling winnings and a 17.5% tax on the net drop of gaming establishments and asked whether casino gambling was being introduced; whether these measures were implemented could not be confirmed. In March 2023 the Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Ryan Straughn, announced that a new betting and gaming framework was being prepared because of the growth of online gaming, and said the government was working with the telecommunications industry on a monitoring system.

Online casino play is unregulated in Barbados: no local operator can be licensed for it, and no law expressly prohibits residents from using foreign sites.

No Barbadian authority licenses or supervises online casinos, so check a site's foreign licence directly with the issuing regulator. Do not assume local consumer protection applies to offshore sites.

Full legal overview for Barbados