{"id":101440,"date":"2020-04-22T16:14:40","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101440"},"modified":"2020-04-22T16:14:40","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:14:40","slug":"gmoa-praises-president-for-liquor-ban-wants-it-extended-to-fag-sales-as-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/22\/gmoa-praises-president-for-liquor-ban-wants-it-extended-to-fag-sales-as-well\/","title":{"rendered":"GMOA praises President for liquor ban, wants it extended to fag sales as well"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Sarath OBEYSEKERA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

April 21, 2020, 11:35 pm\u00a0

When I read the above article I recollected experience about an incident 1972 in Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was sent to an industrial site in a City called Orenburg in Russia with about 40 male and female students who were doing a major degree with me in Drilling and Exploration equipment for Oil and Gas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This city was full of hardcore Heafty Russians treated this brown-skinned small man and drank vodka quite often with a chaser \u00a0of dried pig fat or raw dried fish\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whole city administration collected money from shops in the corporate bank in the government-controlled economy to pay salaries to workers in the city. Most of the money collected is from Gastronom where they sell liquor – staple booze Stoleeshnaya Vodka\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The provincial state wanted to curtail liquor consumption and decided \u00a0not to sell vodka for the last week of the month in summer<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Money did not come to the bank and there were no funds to\npay salaries <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I assume that they hurriedly brought the money from another oblast and managed to pay a few days late ( obviously without printing!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The funniest part is that all \u00a0the \u00a0perfume bottles sold in shops were grabbed by suffering workers to satisfy their unbearable thirst\u00a0 Orenburg never tried that method anymore <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My fear is that illegal liquor making is cracked down our addicts will resort to drinking something else \u00a0like thinner used in paint\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later I worked in the Norwegian oil sector and all my colleagues had an illicit winemaking distillery in the basement which is illegal in Norway and Finland where liquor prices were highest in the region\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norsk government kept blind eye though it is illegal\nconsidering the plight of the nation during lunch Bg severe winter <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA), yesterday, urged shop owners to stop the sale of cigarettes at least until the threat posed by COVID-19\u00a0was\u00a0over. Secretary of the GMOA, Dr. Haritha Aluthge, issuing a media statement, commended the President for reversing the decision to open liquor stores.”The decision taken by the Commissioner-General of Excise to\u00a0open bars was a mistake and we opposed that on Monday itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was also a decision that was against our\nrecommendations, to control the spread of COVID-19.”He said the GMOA had\nopposed the sale of liquor, during COVID-19 crisis, due to four main reasons:\nintoxicated people will not maintain necessary distance from each other,\nseveral people gather to drink alcohol, which in turn disrupts physical\ndistancing, police and other agencies have to deal with the issues that are\ncreated by intoxication. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Sarath Obeysekera
\nCEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard
\nColombo
\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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