Manchester bar operators warned to stop selling alcohol to children

MANCHESTER, Jamaica — Head of the Manchester Police, Deputy Superintendent Odean Dennis has issued a stern warning to bar operators to stop selling alcoholic beverages to children.

The senior cop on Monday evening during a community meeting in Greenvale pointed to reports of students in school uniform being sold alcoholic beverages at bars in Manchester.

“On too many occasions in recent times. We are getting complaints that children [including those] in uniform are being served alcoholic beverages in your bars…I am going to be in discussion with some of the clerks of the courts for this parish to formulate a plan to treat with that issue, because I want to know if as a police officer, it is covered under the law to do what I am thinking of doing in relation to these persons,” he said while suggesting harsh penalties.