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El Toro Closed By Police
Come on guys, if this was a setup there was nothing the owner could do. 4 underage walk in and before the owner of employee has the chance to tell them to leave, BANG they're raided. This is the first time el Toro was raided. I know the owner and he was trying to get his bar up and running. He was just starting to succeed. You could go in there and have a few beers with your friends without being propositioned. (One of the few places iin town). Now I need to find another place in town for my 5 PM Beer
I was there and it is their agenda. No red zone, tolerence "0". It's all a matter of time.
El Toro is a bar open to the sidewalk. Passers by often talk to patrons seated there. Sometimes a girl will try to sit down uninvited or hang around. Early evening people pass on their way from the beach to their home.
There is noting sinister if a girl sits down to have a water or soft drink, especially from 5-8.
No difference to the open bars /restaurants on P.C.
In Europe people take their children to pubs no problem.
Don't know at what time the raid was on Sunday night, but it sounds more like a which hunt on a slow night.
It would be a very different scenario if an underage girl is employed in an enclosed environment such as Passions.
El Toro also sells the cheapest beer.
As it is, there are not many tourists around and fewer may come for Dec-Mar, the rest of the year is dead anyway.
Good luck to business owners!
There is noting sinister if a girl sits down to have a water or soft drink, especially from 5-8.
No difference to the open bars /restaurants on P.C.
In Europe people take their children to pubs no problem.
Don't know at what time the raid was on Sunday night, but it sounds more like a which hunt on a slow night.
It would be a very different scenario if an underage girl is employed in an enclosed environment such as Passions.
El Toro also sells the cheapest beer.
As it is, there are not many tourists around and fewer may come for Dec-Mar, the rest of the year is dead anyway.
Good luck to business owners!
@ Ram - The para military SWAT team did a lockdown/ID check @ D'Latin Drink on August 1 or 2nd, if I recall.
All the gates were shut, and they checked every ID, this took 15 minutes, nobody was detained.
It seems they only pick one bar per night. Not a bad idea to carry passport copy 24/7.
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I agree. They are making a Planning & Zoning Adjustment, they just do it differently then the way it's done in the States.
On a happy note: El Toro shut down, to be reopened as La Vaca Bar. Since the police rolled with the balls away...
There definitely appears to be an agenda to destroy the present Sosua.
But:
One has to break eggs to make an omelette!
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an omelette forthcoming.
Hopefully it's to clear the way for Disneyland Sosua which will be soon opening.
(Maybe they could use the site of the "Sosua Hospital" which seems to have 'slightly' stopped?)
BTW. Could anyone here clarify the laws on serving to children in bars and restaurants? I see many families with kids together in local bars etc.What is the criteria?
But:
One has to break eggs to make an omelette!
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an omelette forthcoming.
Hopefully it's to clear the way for Disneyland Sosua which will be soon opening.
(Maybe they could use the site of the "Sosua Hospital" which seems to have 'slightly' stopped?)
BTW. Could anyone here clarify the laws on serving to children in bars and restaurants? I see many families with kids together in local bars etc.What is the criteria?
English language forum rules or else I would.
As far as the comment about the new minister of tourism and the agenda, i have not been to a meeting, but others have been to those meetings and reported back about the plans to curtail prostitution. It was reported on DR1 news as printed in the DR newspapers that this agenda comes directly from the highest office of the law in the DR in Santo Domingo. Johns will be arrested. There have been many threads about this, the cries of what will the women do to feed their babies, how tourism will disappear, etc, etc, etc..
Maybe for the type of tourists they don't want there, but I'm sure there are non-Dominicans that welcome the cleanup.
Void
Wrong,
It will be called The Void.
The free range vacas are also being rounded up on the highway.
No Vacas nor vaqueros left.:cross-eye
Wrong,
It will be called The Void.
The free range vacas are also being rounded up on the highway.
No Vacas nor vaqueros left.:cross-eye
Minors are allowed in restaurants but just not allowed to drink. E.g. Britannia, Baileys, etc. Minors are not allowed in bars period. E.g. D'Latin, El Flow, El Toro, etc. The big thing is what makes a restaurant a restaurant and not a bar. All the restaurants serve alcohol. Some of the bars (like Rumba) serve food. So how objective or subjective is that judgment by the authorities. Is it based on how loud the music is, how big the menu is, etc. I can't think of any bars or restaurants in Sosua right now where you have a hard time determining if the primary business is restaurant based or bar based but that doesn't mean there won't ever be one some day that is a good 50/50 split.
That's right. I think it will soon just be an empty pan with nothing cooking, unless they come up with some new ingredients pretty quickly!
I know threads on Passions were closed, but I guess enough time has now passed to ask what is the latest on that? A few days ago I saw a photo allegedly showing the owner in jail. If they don't want open bars with the possibility of underage chicas walking in off the street, a place like Passions, where the girls are known and all the activity goes on behind closed doors would be preferable, I would have thought. As long as they pay their dues to the powers that be, of course!