-Ministry publishes new list of noise offenders
Stop the noise, the Ministry of Home Affairs is urging as it yesterday published the addresses of those it identified as being noise nuisances to their communities.
In an advertisement in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek, the Ministry said it continues to receive numerous complaints from senior citizens, the sick, working parents, students and citizens to the effect that “they are being affected by loud, repetitive and continuous noise…” The ministry said it had made checks at the listed locations on specified days and times and verified the validity of the complaints. It said that Police Comman-ders were informed and have been directed to take the appropriate action to ensure that:
“No person shall, in any road, street, public place or land or in building premises, by operating or causing or suffering to be operated any stereo set, juke box, radio, wireless loudspeaker, gramophone, amplifier, automatic piano or similar instrument of music, or by any other means whatsoever, make or cause or suffer to be made any noise which shall be so loud and so continuous or repetitive as to cause a nuisance to occupants of any premises in the neighbourhood,” according to Subsection (1) Section 174A of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offence) Act, Chapter 8:02 and as amended by the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) (Amendment) Act 1989.)
In ‘A’ Division, the Soca Paradise Liquor Parlour and an unnamed liquor restaurant at Eccles; the Lambada Liquor Parlour and Stadium View Bar at Providence; an unnamed bar at Station Street, Kitty; an unnamed shop/pub at ‘K’ Bent Street, Wortmanville; and ten private residences were identified as being offenders.
A mechanical workshop at Armadale Village, West Coast Berbice and a private residence are on the noisy list for ‘B’ Division.
Loud in ‘C’ Division were the Gethsemane Assemblies of God Church at Beezie, Enmore; an unnamed church at Enterprise; a furniture factory at Courbane Park; a Hindu Temple at Mon Repos; Jameel’s Bar at Vryheid’s Lust and at Montrose; the Playboy Hideout Bar at Success; a liquor Parlour at Triumph and two residences.
In ‘D’ Division, noise offenders encompassed the Caribbean Temptation Restaurant and Bar at Anna Catherina; a church at Meten-meer-Zorg; a workshop at Blankenburg; a liquor parlour at De Willem; and eight private residences.
Barrow’s Bar, Linden and a Kuru-Kuru home were listed as the offenders in E&F Division while the Saw Mill at Dryshore and Purple Heart Hotel and Bar at Charity, both on the Essequibo Coast in ‘G’ Division were the noisy nuisances there.
The Ministry has in recent times resorted to publishing the addresses of entities and citizens, it has identified as noise offenders.
