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Police Dissuading Public Drinking
posted (June 30, 2020)
But, just as the Minister of National Security said yesterday, the police will be cracking down on quality of life laws. And that starts with public drinking:

Chester Williams- Commissioner of Police
"You would know, under the intoxicating liquor licensing act, they have the offense of public drinking. Which again, we have seen has picked up back across the country. People are hanging out in front of the store drinking all day or all night. These are issues that we must enforce. And going forward we are going to be extremely stiff, particularly with the sale of alcohol and liquor establishments. And I would trust and hope that people heard what the AG said yesterday about the wearing of masks. If you are in a night club you must wear your mask. If you are dancing on the dance floor and you want to kiss your partner, you lower your mask down quickly and you give her a little kiss and you put it back up, alright? But you cannot be in the night club without a mask, you will commit an offense. And the police will be checking these night clubs every night, once they are opened to ensure that people are in compliance. You would know that it is important in a bar to wear a mask because when a man gets drunk and they start to talk they rain a lot. So, the mask is going to mitigate the rain."

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