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Imbibing in alcoholic beverages at weddings is a common practice

Aug 05, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
Imbibing in alcoholic beverages at social gatherings such as weddings is a common practice, and may be considered a convention.
I will seize this opportunity to apprise Pandit Charanlall Nandalall (refer to his letter in the July 28 edition of Kaieteur News captioned, Is it legal to sell alcohol at weddings?”) that while this practice is not accepted by most individuals, it is accepted by society as a whole.
Furthermore, I am not cognizant of any law pertaining to the selling or consumption of alcohol at weddings, and it is my firm belief that no such law exists. It is the individual’s responsibility to ensure that he/she does not over indulge. Therefore, to question the legality of alcohol consumption at weddings is most ignominious. The absence of a law translates legality. To halt this verbosity, I am basically emphatically making clear that yes, drinking, and therefore, selling of alcohol at weddings is legal.
So, Mr. Nandalall, in the last line of your letter, to which law were you referring?
I am not trying to imply that I think it is okay to consume alcohol at weddings, but few of us are innocent of this practice. I do applaud Mr. Nandalall for bringing light to this issue, but he should have used a better approach. The implications of heavy alcohol consumption include imbuing the intoxicated individual with heightened sensations, leading to imbroglios, domestic violence and traffic accidents.
The morality of the argument is solid, but he was mistaken when he mentioned a law. Let’s not make conjectures or postulations or draw to conclusions based on apocryphal data and call them facts.
A. Basdeo

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