By Shuntel Glasgow
As the festive season approaches, residents of Sheriff Street, Campbell-ville are bracing themselves for a noise pollution onslaught in what seems to be a cruel response to either ambivalence or complete abandonment by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the two agencies with the legal mandate to assist them. This is despite three years (2020-2023) of calls, reports, 16 letters to the EPA, the GPF and press, all with minimal intervention and negligible results.
Residents to whom the Stabroek News spoke to last week identified the source of their discomfort as Lisa’s Restaurant and Bar, located at the corner of Sheriff and Fourth streets. According to the residents, this establishment operates throughout the night and into the early morning of the following day with unabated noise levels. Specific residents, during the interview with the Stabroek News, voluntarily identified themselves as letter-to-the-editor writers who had also called on the EPA to address this noise nuisance with zero success.
