ALCOHOL drinkers in Navotas should brace for a longer liquor ban because the city government has extended it. Mayor Tobias Tiangco confirmed that the city council amended an earlier measure that prohibited the selling and buying of alcoholic beverages. “Since it was only for enhanced community quarantine and now that we are under modified enhanced community quarantine, we need to amend the measure to keep the ban in effect,” Tiangco said. City Ordinance 2020-24 stated that buying or selling of alcoholic drinks remains prohibited while there is prevailing community quarantine. Violators will be slapped a P1,000 fine or one-day imprisonment for the first offense; P3,000 fine or five-day imprisonment for the second offense; and P5,000 fine or 10-day imprisonment for the third offense. Establishments violating the ordinance may also lose their business permit and face closure, the city government said.