Santo Domingo.- The Interior and Police Ministry on Wed. shuttered 29 businesses in the Capital and across the country for violating Executive orders 308 – 06 and 316-06 that sets the schedule to sell alcoholic beverages.
Interior and Police minister José Ramón Fadul said the penalties range from 20 days up to three months in jail, depending on the seriousness of the infringement committed in the business.
The official, speaking during the swearing in of the new Deputy minister Roberto Cordones, added that many businesses were closed for blocking sidewalks and for exceeding allowed noise levels.