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	<title>Comments on: Government should now turn its attention to loud music in homes and private vehicles</title>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
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		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Listening to loud music is as dangerous to the ears as looking at the sun is to the eyes. Turn your wedding house music down!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Listening to loud music is as dangerous to the ears as looking at the sun is to the eyes. Turn your wedding house music down!</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/29/government-should-now-turn-its-attention-to-loud-music-in-homes-and-private-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-23406</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Blacx boy ears might be black outside but SAME mechanism inside like white boy and just as susceptible to damage from loud music. That&#039;s why many minibus conductors and drivers shout, because they are so hearing impaired that they think they are not speaking  loud enough. Deaf people always talk the loudest.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Blacx boy ears might be black outside but SAME mechanism inside like white boy and just as susceptible to damage from loud music. That&#8217;s why many minibus conductors and drivers shout, because they are so hearing impaired that they think they are not speaking  loud enough. Deaf people always talk the loudest.</p>
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		<title>By: A380100</title>
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		<dc:creator>A380100</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Did I ever say I wanted to be deaf??  It is the total lack of tolerance in Guyana that is partly responsible for the mess it is in.  We have to live with others, if you want to be 80 and have that type of hearing then move to Africa.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did I ever say I wanted to be deaf??  It is the total lack of tolerance in Guyana that is partly responsible for the mess it is in.  We have to live with others, if you want to be 80 and have that type of hearing then move to Africa.</p>
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		<title>By: WB</title>
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		<dc:creator>WB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BOY black people dont get deaf easy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BOY black people dont get deaf easy.</p>
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		<title>By: WB</title>
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		<dc:creator>WB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What r u saying there is no breaking of law in Canada.
we dont play loud music here.
we dont drink and drive.
stop giveing people wrong impression.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What r u saying there is no breaking of law in Canada.<br />
we dont play loud music here.<br />
we dont drink and drive.<br />
stop giveing people wrong impression.</p>
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		<title>By: WB</title>
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		<dc:creator>WB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>r u a bayjan shoot up.what is the exchange rate for Barbados?
where is Guyana economy going.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>r u a bayjan shoot up.what is the exchange rate for Barbados?<br />
where is Guyana economy going.</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/29/government-should-now-turn-its-attention-to-loud-music-in-homes-and-private-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-22855</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tolerate the noise for a few days? So I can become deaf with you? NO!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tolerate the noise for a few days? So I can become deaf with you? NO!</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/29/government-should-now-turn-its-attention-to-loud-music-in-homes-and-private-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-22852</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:09:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Culture is relative; decibel leve is not. There is a tribe in Africa where 80 year old people have hearing acuity as good as a Western 18 year old because those people are not subject to the noise of civilization and deafening music.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Culture is relative; decibel leve is not. There is a tribe in Africa where 80 year old people have hearing acuity as good as a Western 18 year old because those people are not subject to the noise of civilization and deafening music.</p>
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		<title>By: A380100</title>
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		<dc:creator>A380100</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:13:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Well there is culture, and some countries are different.  What is the &quot;norm&quot; in some socities are outlawed in others.  

Please, &quot;Civilized&quot; is a relative word.

However, respect for another citizen and their right to quiet enjoyment is fundamental, so if the noise is extensive and you can&#039;t hear yourself think, then it is too much.  Tolerance is also necessary, so if someone has a function and it is just for the weekend, be neighbourly and tolerate the noise for a few days.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well there is culture, and some countries are different.  What is the &#8220;norm&#8221; in some socities are outlawed in others.  </p>
<p>Please, &#8220;Civilized&#8221; is a relative word.</p>
<p>However, respect for another citizen and their right to quiet enjoyment is fundamental, so if the noise is extensive and you can&#8217;t hear yourself think, then it is too much.  Tolerance is also necessary, so if someone has a function and it is just for the weekend, be neighbourly and tolerate the noise for a few days.</p>
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		<title>By: bishnu R</title>
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		<dc:creator>bishnu R</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 15:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sheik.
        i live in toronto you telling me you don&#039;t put up your car window at the stop light  in the summer when some of the brothers stop next to you with the big bom bom?
get real.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sheik.<br />
        i live in toronto you telling me you don&#8217;t put up your car window at the stop light  in the summer when some of the brothers stop next to you with the big bom bom?<br />
get real.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sheik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mackydog, take your loud music  along with your idea of Democracy  to ANY law abiding country,see what they will do to you. Think you can do the Bajans that? try it. ,  see how fast you will be sitting on the bench at the Airport.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mackydog, take your loud music  along with your idea of Democracy  to ANY law abiding country,see what they will do to you. Think you can do the Bajans that? try it. ,  see how fast you will be sitting on the bench at the Airport.</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
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		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Do what you want in your home, including having sex as long and as often and with whomever or whatever you wish as long as you don&#039;t DISTURB ME or DEAFEN ME!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do what you want in your home, including having sex as long and as often and with whomever or whatever you wish as long as you don&#8217;t DISTURB ME or DEAFEN ME!</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/29/government-should-now-turn-its-attention-to-loud-music-in-homes-and-private-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-22314</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to make noise in your homes, private vehicles and churches, then SOUNDPROOF your place so as not to make me deaf with you!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to make noise in your homes, private vehicles and churches, then SOUNDPROOF your place so as not to make me deaf with you!</p>
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		<title>By: M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</title>
		<link>http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/letters/08/29/government-should-now-turn-its-attention-to-loud-music-in-homes-and-private-vehicles/comment-page-1/#comment-22312</link>
		<dc:creator>M. Xiu Quan-Balgobind-Hackett</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In the more civilized countries of the world it is a crime to play music from homes or private vehicles above a certain decibel level. People know this: loud music and noise might not have immediate deadly effects but in the long run it will make you hearing impaired or even deaf. The audiologists can tell you the effects of loud noise on your hearing mechanism. Listening to loud music damages your ears just as looking at the sun damages your eyes. It is just that the effects of loud noise is not immediate. Many of you will enter middle-life as partially deaf people. Just don&#039;t force me to become deaf with you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the more civilized countries of the world it is a crime to play music from homes or private vehicles above a certain decibel level. People know this: loud music and noise might not have immediate deadly effects but in the long run it will make you hearing impaired or even deaf. The audiologists can tell you the effects of loud noise on your hearing mechanism. Listening to loud music damages your ears just as looking at the sun damages your eyes. It is just that the effects of loud noise is not immediate. Many of you will enter middle-life as partially deaf people. Just don&#8217;t force me to become deaf with you.</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sheik</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 17:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>aka master, have you ever experienced living in front of a rum shop? I don&#039;t suppose you have.. can you say, go to toronto and break the law? that uncivilized behaviour can only happen in Guyana, where there is no discipline.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>aka master, have you ever experienced living in front of a rum shop? I don&#8217;t suppose you have.. can you say, go to toronto and break the law? that uncivilized behaviour can only happen in Guyana, where there is no discipline.</p>
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		<title>By: aka master</title>
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		<dc:creator>aka master</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:50:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>yo i love my country its for the freedom i have down there y the want to ban music it a part of life i say no to that let the music be</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yo i love my country its for the freedom i have down there y the want to ban music it a part of life i say no to that let the music be</p>
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		<title>By: bgsbny</title>
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		<dc:creator>bgsbny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>....... YO ! dog,,, i think u totally misconstrued eleazer&#039;s text ! all of which i happen to support ,, not that u r supposed to,,, and i respect the fact that ur expression is ur opinion of the matter at hand ,, i don&#039;t think religion has anything to do with the comment ,, it&#039;s the pollution of the noise making equipment used by the religous
bodies ,, as for marilyn ,, if u want to make noise in ur own home ,, then u should be isolated. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;&#8230;. YO ! dog,,, i think u totally misconstrued eleazer&#8217;s text ! all of which i happen to support ,, not that u r supposed to,,, and i respect the fact that ur expression is ur opinion of the matter at hand ,, i don&#8217;t think religion has anything to do with the comment ,, it&#8217;s the pollution of the noise making equipment used by the religous<br />
bodies ,, as for marilyn ,, if u want to make noise in ur own home ,, then u should be isolated.</p>
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		<title>By: marilyn</title>
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		<dc:creator>marilyn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mackydog i agree with you, why dont they go and live in the jungle if thay don&#039;t want noise, How could the tell people what to do in their homes. soon they would tell husband when to sleep with their wives.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mackydog i agree with you, why dont they go and live in the jungle if thay don&#8217;t want noise, How could the tell people what to do in their homes. soon they would tell husband when to sleep with their wives.</p>
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		<title>By: bgsbny</title>
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		<dc:creator>bgsbny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>..... it is starnge to me,, how only in GY ,, laws have to be written b4 citizens can understand that they have been a nuisance to the community in which they live and serve ,, after their collective behavior of,, dumb times 10,, for MANY years ,, whichcan now put them in jail and or with fines  !... 

somewhere i read some one said,,,,, 

&quot; in everything be moderate &quot;!........ if u r not,, or ever was ,, then it is the responsibility of those in society who r the custodians of morals and values ,, to ever be observant of that which will certainly grow to bcome the monster of the mega speakers ,, amplifiers,, and microphones ,, the volumetric content of these implements must be harnessed to suit the acoustics of space ,, for comfort and enjoyment to the ear ! not only the useless need for high energy to deliver nothing more than annoyance to all wherever ,,, when ever ,, which seem to be all the time,, as is the case in GY ,, constant noise is also a pollutant in more ways that can be given here ,,, here are a few other pollutants that can be easily remedied ,, with simple methods ,, littering,, stray dogs ,, animals -- 2 and 4 footed -- four feet on the road ,, and two feeted ones vehicles ,,re - cycle PLASTIC !,,environmental &quot;maids&quot; -- similiar to the meter maids ,, etc,, etc ,,,,,,,, and more ,, 
in GY it&#039;s all over the place ,, pollution is ,, owners of dray carts whose animals leave their fetid smelling dung,, which breed flies ,, and then as time goes by becomes dust and then airborne to become health hazards ,, some of which are &quot;red eye&quot; and flu,, they will be seen by the &quot; enviro-maids&quot; since they will be all over the place 3 shifts in 24x7,, this will with their existence lend to crime control,, they should be armed with radios,, for communication ,, if it&#039;s a female call for back up ,, before appraoching the suspect ,,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8230;.. it is starnge to me,, how only in GY ,, laws have to be written b4 citizens can understand that they have been a nuisance to the community in which they live and serve ,, after their collective behavior of,, dumb times 10,, for MANY years ,, whichcan now put them in jail and or with fines  !&#8230; </p>
<p>somewhere i read some one said,,,,, </p>
<p>&#8221; in everything be moderate &#8220;!&#8230;&#8230;.. if u r not,, or ever was ,, then it is the responsibility of those in society who r the custodians of morals and values ,, to ever be observant of that which will certainly grow to bcome the monster of the mega speakers ,, amplifiers,, and microphones ,, the volumetric content of these implements must be harnessed to suit the acoustics of space ,, for comfort and enjoyment to the ear ! not only the useless need for high energy to deliver nothing more than annoyance to all wherever ,,, when ever ,, which seem to be all the time,, as is the case in GY ,, constant noise is also a pollutant in more ways that can be given here ,,, here are a few other pollutants that can be easily remedied ,, with simple methods ,, littering,, stray dogs ,, animals &#8212; 2 and 4 footed &#8212; four feet on the road ,, and two feeted ones vehicles ,,re &#8211; cycle PLASTIC !,,environmental &#8220;maids&#8221; &#8212; similiar to the meter maids ,, etc,, etc ,,,,,,,, and more ,,<br />
in GY it&#8217;s all over the place ,, pollution is ,, owners of dray carts whose animals leave their fetid smelling dung,, which breed flies ,, and then as time goes by becomes dust and then airborne to become health hazards ,, some of which are &#8220;red eye&#8221; and flu,, they will be seen by the &#8221; enviro-maids&#8221; since they will be all over the place 3 shifts in 24&#215;7,, this will with their existence lend to crime control,, they should be armed with radios,, for communication ,, if it&#8217;s a female call for back up ,, before appraoching the suspect ,,</p>
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		<title>By: mackydog</title>
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		<dc:creator>mackydog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Eleazer, for as long as Guyana has existed the religions have lived in harmony, churches next to mosques next to temples next to bottom house prayers next to crusade tents - all in the same village any where in Guyana. What you&#039;re attempting to do by stating the religious buildings which has loud speakers on them is trying to seperate the people religiously. Banning music in public transportation was wrong in the first place, enough now, leave us with our freedoms as we know it, Guyana is now a Democracy...Dictatorship days gone </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eleazer, for as long as Guyana has existed the religions have lived in harmony, churches next to mosques next to temples next to bottom house prayers next to crusade tents &#8211; all in the same village any where in Guyana. What you&#8217;re attempting to do by stating the religious buildings which has loud speakers on them is trying to seperate the people religiously. Banning music in public transportation was wrong in the first place, enough now, leave us with our freedoms as we know it, Guyana is now a Democracy&#8230;Dictatorship days gone</p>
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