From Dominican Today:
SANTO DOMINGO.- Dominican Tourism minister Felix Jimenez today said he spoke with Interior and Police minister Franklin Almeyda Thursday night to request the extension of the schedule to sell alcohol in the country’s tourist resorts, including the capital’s Colonial Zone and Malecon seaside boulevard.
The official said given the fact “tourists come to the country to have fun, not to shut themselves in a room,” those resort areas need the schedule extended. “When an Italian comes here he doesn’t want to have to go to sleep early, he wants to have some fun.”
Jimenez, interviewed by Cesar Medina in the program Hoy Mismo on Channel 9, said the ban which limited the sale of alcohol to 12 midnight Sunday to Thursday and to 2 AM Friday and Saturday was already lifted in Cabarete, Puerto Plata province (north).
Last week Almeyda said in exchange for allowing alcohol sales to 1 AM bar and restaurant owners in Cabarete had agreed to implement measures in their establishments to secure the safety of their customers, most of them tourists.
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