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May 14, 2021
The Barbados Road Safety Association (BRSA) has backed lawmakers raising the minimum age to buy or drink liquor from 16 to 18.
BRSA president Sharmane Roland-Bowen told
Barbados TODAY that for many years the association has been lobbying for the minimum drinking age to be raised to 21. But although the limit is three years younger than suggested, she said the BRSA is satisfied that at least an effort has been made to raise it.
The House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a new Liquor Licences Bill under which anyone caught selling alcohol to those under 18 or encouraging them to become involved in the business of selling liquor to those under 18, can be charged and fined $10,000, up to five years in prison, or both.
Lawmakers raise drinking age to 18
Article by May 12, 2021
The age limit to legally buy or consume alcohol is to be raised to 18 under a new Liquor Licences Bill, lawmakers in the House of Assembly agreed Tuesday.
Minister of Small Business and Entrepreneurship Kerrie Symmonds told the House of Assembly that anyone caught selling alcohol to those under 18 or encouraging them to become involved in the business of selling liquor could be charged and fined up to $10,000, up to five years in prison, or both.
Symmonds explained: “Under the old legislation which we seek to repeal today, at age 16, you could do all of these things. You could get a drink, go and buy it and walk out with it. You could be in a rum shop and a youngster comes in and you could employ him in the process of a business which is engaging in the sale and consumption of intoxicating beverages.”
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People granted licences under the new dispensation of the
Liquor Licences Bill 2021 have been warned to adhere to the tenets of the legislation or risk having their business shut down.
This caution came from Member of Parliament for St George South Dwight Sutherland as he contributed to debate on the bill in Parliament yesterday.
The legislation moves the granting of liquor licences from the courts to the Ministry of Commerce and allows a single application to cover business activity across the island during any given season of activity.
Sutherland, who is also Minister of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment and a former Minister of Commerce and Small Business, cautioned those who might “want to circumvent the role of the police” and said there were clauses in the legislation that spoke to any attempts at contravening the proposed act and if “you involve yourself in any drug trafficking or any form of illegal activity the police has the right to shut y
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