Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
May 6th 2009, 2:32 pm
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Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
MPs vote for blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain
Manama: A blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain's hotels, restaurants and clubs is what most Members of Parliament want.
The MPs voted for a total ban on Tuesday, but agreed to allow consumption in private homes, with suppliers providing home delivery.
Hotel guests would be allowed alcohol only in their rooms under the proposal, backed unanimously at parliament's weekly session, reported a Bahrain-based newspaper.
The proposal must now go to the Cabinet.
The nationwide ban was proposed by parliament legislative and legal affairs committee vice-chairman Shaikh Jassem Al Saeedi, who said alcohol was fuelling the vice trade and turning the country into a brothel.
"It is the main reason behind unclean tourism and the consequences the country is facing from increased crime," he said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/10311077.html
Manama: A blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain's hotels, restaurants and clubs is what most Members of Parliament want.
The MPs voted for a total ban on Tuesday, but agreed to allow consumption in private homes, with suppliers providing home delivery.
Hotel guests would be allowed alcohol only in their rooms under the proposal, backed unanimously at parliament's weekly session, reported a Bahrain-based newspaper.
The proposal must now go to the Cabinet.
The nationwide ban was proposed by parliament legislative and legal affairs committee vice-chairman Shaikh Jassem Al Saeedi, who said alcohol was fuelling the vice trade and turning the country into a brothel.
"It is the main reason behind unclean tourism and the consequences the country is facing from increased crime," he said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/10311077.html
May 6th 2009, 2:34 pm
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
MPs vote for blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain
Manama: A blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain's hotels, restaurants and clubs is what most Members of Parliament want.
The MPs voted for a total ban on Tuesday, but agreed to allow consumption in private homes, with suppliers providing home delivery.
Hotel guests would be allowed alcohol only in their rooms under the proposal, backed unanimously at parliament's weekly session, reported a Bahrain-based newspaper.
The proposal must now go to the Cabinet.
The nationwide ban was proposed by parliament legislative and legal affairs committee vice-chairman Shaikh Jassem Al Saeedi, who said alcohol was fuelling the vice trade and turning the country into a brothel.
"It is the main reason behind unclean tourism and the consequences the country is facing from increased crime," he said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/10311077.html
Manama: A blanket ban on public sale of alcohol in Bahrain's hotels, restaurants and clubs is what most Members of Parliament want.
The MPs voted for a total ban on Tuesday, but agreed to allow consumption in private homes, with suppliers providing home delivery.
Hotel guests would be allowed alcohol only in their rooms under the proposal, backed unanimously at parliament's weekly session, reported a Bahrain-based newspaper.
The proposal must now go to the Cabinet.
The nationwide ban was proposed by parliament legislative and legal affairs committee vice-chairman Shaikh Jassem Al Saeedi, who said alcohol was fuelling the vice trade and turning the country into a brothel.
"It is the main reason behind unclean tourism and the consequences the country is facing from increased crime," he said.
http://www.gulfnews.com/news/gulf/bahrain/10311077.html
May 6th 2009, 2:36 pm
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
I don't think it will happen.
It is not unheard of for the cabinet to rule against ratifying draft laws in Bahrain.
It is not unheard of for the cabinet to rule against ratifying draft laws in Bahrain.
May 6th 2009, 2:44 pm
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
they'll lose a fortune in Saudi spending!
May 6th 2009, 4:03 pm
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
party in room 69...bring your own everything...
what a stupid rule...
what a stupid rule...
May 6th 2009, 8:04 pm
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May 7th 2009, 4:03 am
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
If you've ever spent any time in Bahrain, you would see that public drunkenness is a problem (mostly from Saudi's it has to be said!!)
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
May 7th 2009, 4:11 am
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hmmmm...nice
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
If you've ever spent any time in Bahrain, you would see that public drunkenness is a problem (mostly from Saudi's it has to be said!!)
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
May 7th 2009, 9:52 am
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
I thought we were not allowed to say anything negative about Bahrain!!!
May 7th 2009, 10:06 am
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Re: Total Booze Ban in Bahrain
If you've ever spent any time in Bahrain, you would see that public drunkenness is a problem (mostly from Saudi's it has to be said!!)
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
They felt they had to do something, and I guess this was what they thought would be a good compromise. People can still drink, just not in public.
Worse thing they ever did was build the causeway
May 7th 2009, 8:06 pm
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Worked in Saudi for four and a half years actually and visited Bahrain often crossing the causeway but never disgraced myself in public in a drunken stupor
May 7th 2009, 8:08 pm
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