Dear Editor,

On Monday, December 28, I went to a store in Commerce Street to make a purchase. On the opposite side of the street was a tent and under that tent a music set was playing excessively loud music disturbing the sales people and the customers and the businessplace.

I enquired from one of the sales people in the store how they could put up with the noise and was informed that was an everyday occurrence. When I enquired, “Why you all don’t call the police?” I was told, to look outside; sure enough, in the middle of the circle was a policeman in full battle dress – bullet-proof vest, helmet and all.

The policeman was probably looking for pickpockets and thieves. But he surely was not bothered about disturbing musical noise.

Editor, all around it is the same story: noise, noise everywhere, and even though this noise is disturbing and unhealthy, no one in the law enforcement agency seems to care.

The student, the sick, the disabled are all suffering by being bombarded, yet this practice is allowed to build up.

Yours faithfully,
W P George