Bajans Spend New Year’s Eve In Church, But Have No Laws Against Selling Alcohol To Children or Driving While Drunk
One of our readers sent us references to two newspaper articles – one about how many (very many!) Bajans choose to spend New Year’s Eve in church, and the other article about how children can purchase alcohol because there is no law against it.
The reader asked, “How can you reconcile these two articles? On one hand thousands of your people spend New Years praying in church, and on the other hand you have no law against sellng liquor to children…”
All we can say is “Welcome to Barbados, friend.” Some things are difficult to explain – like the fact that we don’t have proper laws against drinking and driving or selling alcohol to children.
It doesn’t mean that we have children walking around drunk or that most people drive while drunk. But yes, we probably should pass some civilized laws around here.
Links
The Nation News: Church A Hot Spot For New Year’s Eve
Barbados Advocate: Amendment Needed
Barbados Free Press 
Check out some more strange laws…from the good ole USA… does it get any better than: “Dominoes may not be played on Sunday”?!?!?!?
follow this link:
http://www.lawguru.com/weird/part01.html
Thats the beauty of Barbados. We just plain and simple don’t need those laws. Children here just don’t find alcohol interesting or the need to buy it until they are actually old enough…same goes for cigarettes, which is weird.
Another weird stupid Barbadian law is that sodomy is against the law (and it should be), but you can still have gay marriages, its like, wtf do they expect is going to happen after to guys get married?
Why should sodomy be illegal? Lots of hetrosexual couples enjoy trunking. Government should stay out of the private sex lives of its citizens. BTW, gay marriage is not legal in Barbados.
Loveboy, your gay aren’t you? If you are, god doesn’t like you 😦
Sodomy, smoking, drugs and heavy drinking all contribute to disease and injury. Combine that with free medical care for all Bajans, and the government ends up spending more. I don’t think the government has any right to interfere in people’s personal lives, but unfortunately the taxpayers have to pay for the consequences of risky behaviour.
God loves everybody, gay and straight alike. Nobody is without sin, and He still loves us.
There is not, as far as I am aware, any crime of sodomy in Bim, but there is buggery; and that is illegal between, man and man, boyfriend and girlfriend and even husband and wife! Of course, it is not enforced.
It looks as if “Justice” is interpreting “sodomy” as being what is otherwise known as “bestiality.”
Surprisingly Webster’s dictionary and
“dictionary.com” (which compares various dictionaries) treat buggery and sodomy as synonyms, and include oral intercourse. The Laws of Barbados may have their own specifics , but it is otherwise confusing.
Exactly. naive, sodomy does include oral sex. That’s not against the law in barbados, is it?
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