UPDATE: Alcohol permitted to be sold from 6:00 PM- RVIPF
The RVIPF, in a bulletin today, said: “After further reflection and in response to feedback from the public, we advise that establishments will now be permitted to open and serve alcohol from 6:00 pm onwards today, Friday 18th April.”
It also said regular business hours will resume from tomorrow, Saturday, onwards.
“We encourage everyone to enjoy a safe, responsible, and festive Easter Festival and holiday weekend,” the RVIPF stated.
See previous article published April 18, 2025
Businesses that sell alcohol must remain closed on Good Friday- RVIPF reminds
- Clubs & hotels are the exception
The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) has reminded the public that, in accordance with CAP 42 (1) of the Liquor Licence Act, 1964, all premises excluding clubs and hotels that sell intoxicating liquor must remain closed for the entire day today, Good Friday, April 18, 2025.
The RVIPF has also advised that such premises must not open before 3:00 pm on Sunday, April 20, 2025.
Businesses that violate this regulation are liable to a Fine between $150.00 and $200.00.
Persons found on the premises of such establishments in breach of the law may be fined $25.00.
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21 Responses to “UPDATE: Alcohol permitted to be sold from 6:00 PM- RVIPF”
This is such bull sh**
Example 1. Supermarkets also sell alcohol drinks. Alcohol when intake for pleasurous reasons is damaging to the brain, regardeless of what day it ba
2. Alcohol doesn't drink people, and get drunk, and get drunk, but people over intake of alcohol do.
3. Everyday is called good by its Creator.
4. The closing of hotels, Clubs, and rum, and will not prevent people from drinking alcohol today, April, 18, and onward daily.
5 Physical religious practices without genuine heart (( the humana mind) change is futile (useless).!!!
Well, RVIPF officers were given misleading, misinformed and totally unnecessary instructions about liquor sales and closing and opening times for bussiness that sells alcohol.
From reliable sources, it appears that a senior officer, eager to be seen as relevant, sent directives to the entire force and issued a media post all without properly researching the Liquor Licenses Act and the generally accepted norms already adopted and only saw black and white and decided to flex their so called power echoing their interpretation of an outdated law.
What’s worse is that there had been no issues in previous years to spark such action, making the directive completely unnecessary with questionable intentions.
Thankfully, senior members of the community stepped in, challenged it, and had it corrected before things got out of hand and cause a total break down in community relations with the Police. This clearly is an embarrassing situation for the RVIPF to retract a strong directive to the public that was unnecessary instructions the first place.
But this may just be the beginning, a preview of what happens when square pegs are forced into round holes. Watch this space, there is more to come.
All them time is our own people who wrote and implement these laws.
That's how delusional our people are blaming UK for everything
Money see. Monkey do