New Sunday booze rules confirmed
(CNS): Following the annual Liquor Licensing Board meeting last month and the amendments to the law regarding alcohol sales, the government has now gazetted the new permitted hours during which licensees can trade, depending on their type licence. The biggest change is that licensed premises covered by package licences, such as liquor stores, convenience shops and gas stations, can now sell alcohol on Sundays between 1pm and 7pm.
Following a long battle to create a level playing field for Sunday sales, the limited trading hours were determined by the board as a way of addressing the needs of the Cayman Islands tourism sector without commercialising Sunday and upsetting those who do not support Sunday trading on religious grounds.
While some gas stations, and more recently a number of stores, had begun selling liquor on Sundays through a retail licence, this had restricted beer sales to whole cases. The new package licence allows alcohol sales on Sundays, between 1pm and 7pm, with no restrictions on quantity.
See gazetted trading hours for types of liquor licences in the CNS Library
Think about all the marriages and terrible business decisions that would not happen without being induced by alcohol. We all owe our lives to alcohol that leads to easy conception.
I do agree with some of the writers, we should now address grocery stores, the question is, would they actually open due to the additional costs ie staff and utilities, would it be worth it?
Regarding purchasing booze from gas stns, take a look at their prices they will be selling booze at, more expensive than liquor stores. I for one will still be hitting up the liquor store on Saturday for the cheaper price and I wanna be stocked up to get hammered on Sunday after church and not have to worry about buying anything on Sunday.
If grocery stores don’t want to open they don’t have to, but we aren’t going to know what the demand is until we do it, so we should make it legal and see what happens.
In Cayman there is always wiggle room. Its part of its charm until you are hit in the face with wiggle room leading to nepotism, downright racism, unfair employment practices, and so on.
Yaya! We now have even more time to purchase the most dangerous drug in the entire world, thank you so much. I’ll just throw away this all purpose herb that’s illegal and get me some of that liquid death ya’ll are selling.
Okay, calm down. They should both be legal but you’re freaking out.
If you don’t like working with religion-sanctioned political-affiliated-liquor stores, alcoholic managers, half-drunk teachers, the recent promoted company drunk, housewives that mix with ambien for their daily wine, and all the terrible violence and bullying that “moderate drinkers” love to foist on those who do not drink, then it is time for you to leave.
Ahhhh….life is good.
Great. You can get smashed out of your skull on a Sunday buy you can’t buy food for your family. Absurd.
Actually Supermarkets under 4000 sq ft can open on a Sunday read the Sunday Trading Law.
When the government (Wayne Panton) tried to amend the law for bigger supermarkets to open on Sunday it was cast aside and no one wanted it. Please do a google search on Sunday Trading proposal Cayman Islands. Can’t never please everyone. Find something worthwhile to talk about!! Selling liquor on Sunday does nothing different than any other day get with the times. That law is so old and outdated.
Yea was about to ask so wa bout the McRuss that opened recently
No, that’s not correct. The government claimed feedback was against it, but they never revealed the data. The only reason they would have done that is because they did not want the public to see which voices they were choosing to listen to: churches, lazy merchants, lazy employees of lazy merchants, people who are concerned they may have to work instead of go to church, etc. The typical constituency that holds back progress and quality of life for the general public. Why else would business people decline another day to do business, or hourly workers decline more pay?
Merchant: “Aww don’t make it legal for me to open my shop on Sunday, then I’ll have to open my shop on Sunday!”
Me: “Yes that was the point, now shut up and take my money in exchange for goods”
1:29 you should read more it’s called the Sunday Trading Law.
Bah humbug!
Still no action on rampant under age drinking – in the licensed bars and nightclubs!
That’s because the department and its enforcement team responsible for seeing to it that the liquor inspectors are out there working for their big salaries are not doing their jobs. Compared to years ago when we had “real” liquor inspectors, this new batch is a bunch of jokers.
Sounds like a very bitter ex employee…lol
Sounds like an assumption…lol
Baby steps towards the early 20th century…
one small step for man…one giant leap for caymankind
Whooooaaaa, slow down there little buddy, we are still dealing with 1800s thinking here.
More liquor + More freedom = More Crime!
But … Im just talkin junk!
Can not our MLAs invest their time on More important issues facing our country – like the breakdown of families and homes ???
Banning alcohol sales has not and cannot stop people from stocking up on Saturdays to drink on Sundays.
Source: I did the same to ensure I had a cold six pack waiting in the fridge before I left for the beach on Sundays.
Signed, another born Caymanian who is sick of Caymanians like you wishing we were still in the stone ages.. oh wait we also think Dinosaurs are a lie here too.
couldn’t have said it better
Looks like downvote bots hit here too
Hypocrite churchbots
Cheers to the freaking weekend!
This is great. Now if we can buy alcohol, can we please buy groceries, by the exact same logic? Sunday would remain the most relaxed day of the week but you could do a lot more with it if you wanted. In Hurleys just this Saturday there was a group of tourists talking about how they needed to “stock up because everything is closed tomorrow”. Why put them and us through the unnecessary stress? Unless the ritual unavailability of most of the goods sold in a supermarket is actually a covert disaster-preparedness drill that will save all of our lives some day, I’d like to be able to decide on Sunday that I want to cook something, and buy what I need. It would also cut down on food waste because people would not make such gargantuan shopping trips on Saturday and supermarkets would have another day to sell perishables. One reason prices are so high is that we subsidise everything perishable that supermarkets don’t sell in time. Also, we know there is no religious objection to cooking on Sunday. I think the more religious you are the more likely you are to be having a big family lunch on Sunday that you had to shop for on Saturday because you’d be at church Sunday morning. But we are not all religious, actively or at all…in fact most of us aren’t when you think of most millennials and most expats alone. So the good majority are not living that life and would benefit from the increased opportunity to buy things. I would much rather take Saturday easy to recover from the work week and then take care of anything I need to do on Sunday before the next week starts. I can’t imagine I’m the only one not interested in Saturday congestion and that hurried feeling everywhere you go.
Very good point; everybody works Monday through Friday and most retail workers work Monday through Saturday, hence giving no “day off” or time to be able to shop since they are at work the same hours that markets are open. Retail stores would be far less of an “event” and a much more quick in and out process if the shopping was split up between Saturday and Sunday. Currently Saturday shopping is obnoxious in Cayman and takes more time than it should. I would be in favor of a concession of having Retail markets allowed to be open on a regulated shift say 12pm-6pm on Sundays. I don’t know how many times I wished to cook something on a Sunday but was missing an ingredient that I couldn’t just go out and purchase like anyplace else on the planet.
Thank you! In Cayman right now your reward for a week of work is a sixth day of domestic work which takes up the best part of the day. Skip it and you pay the next week because your household and life is not organised. If you want to enjoy leisure pursuits during the day, you are forced to do that on Sunday, without access to goods. This is just a bad way to live and it’s mandated by the government. Sunday trading is overdue.
If the gas station clock says 1pm but it is actually 12:52, can I still buy a six pack?
Subway let me buy a breakfast sandwich at 11:01 am the other day when the sign says its only available until 11 am so maybe the gas stations will have some wiggle room too.