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Save us from the miscreants who play excessively loud music
Dear Editor,
This letter is an S.O.S. call for help for residents of Cumberland Village, in Berbice, and other numerous areas in Guyana, whereby persons cannot be at peace in their homes due to immense loud music banging from huge music boxes that ordinary residents seem to own these days.
I make specific reference to the central Cumberland area next to the NDC office. Last Sunday (03-08-08) I got an intense headache all day because various persons were playing music at exorbitant levels.
We have senior citizens, sick persons and children who are regularly bothered by this occurrence, which sometimes is a daily nightmare in this area.
Imagine, Mr Editor, I tried contacting the Reliance Police Station at 5:25pm Sunday (03-08-08). Their phones were ringing out. I continued right through 6:00pm but no one at that police station answered the telephone.
All this time the music continued coming from several houses. So what if there was a crime being committed in the area? How could this police station have responded?
That is a separate issue by itself, but I will blend it in this letter by saying that it is a frequent occurrence to be calling police stations right across Guyana (Reliance included) and receive an ‘engaged’ tone. I would further like to mention that I kept calling the Reliance Station several times on Sunday night (03-08-08) and the phone was ringing out or had a busy tone.
It seems that some persons don’t have anything constructive to do, other than to wreak havoc on residents who just want to enjoy some peace and quiet on Sundays and other days in the week. You cannot even hear your telephone ringing, your own voice, your radio, your television, or converse with other persons. It’s insane!
I am calling on those in whom power is invested to deal, and to deal effectively, with music disturbances across Guyana. I am sure East Canje is not the only place where it is happening.
What systems are in place at the various police stations across Guyana to deal with loud music disturbances? I called Reliance Station on several occasions for the same reason, and received no help on numerous instances.
Either there was no vehicle available to go and tell the defaulters to turn the music down or off, or they came too late — when the music was already turned off, or they never came at all, or the music is turned on again shortly after the police arrived and left.
If the police cannot effectively deal with these complaints from the citizens they ought to be serving, then who should we turn to for relief?
Mr Editor, this situation is very disgusting, and I hope with all my heart that someone from the Government is reading this letter. We may need some legislation in place to deal with these miscreants who disturb people with loud music.
Everyone has a right to peace, quiet and sanctity in their homes, not to be bothered and disturbed at their wits’ end all day by throbbing loud music.
Name and address withheld
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