Minister of Interior and Police Jose Ramon Fadul has announced that alcohol sale restrictions will be restored at midnight tonight, Wednesday 8 January.
Fadul warned that the Ministry would act forcefully against businesses and their owners if they disobeyed the law, which was lifted during the Christmas and New Year period. Alcoholic Drinks Control (COBA) inspectors will be resuming their work and patrolling the streets to ensure that businesses are complying with the law.
Fadul also said that they would continue working to ensure citizen safety and public order, stressing that it was prohibited to enter drinking establishments with firearms and that minors could neither enter them nor purchase alcohol.
In the Dominican Republic from Sunday to Thursday, drinking curfew is midnight. On holidays and weekends the curfew is extended to 2am. Businesses located in hotels and others have been granted special permits to continue serving alcohol later.