Dear Editor,
Our society has become a place of constant noise in various parts of our

country but our police do nothing about it. I wonder why if a bill was passed in parliament about noise nuisance why is it that these laws are not enforced? On Christmas Day I visited some of my relatives at Enterprise. When I arrived there I heard some very lewd and loud music that vibrated the entire community and could be heard about five miles from the back of Enterprise to the main public road.

I spoke to my relatives about the music and they told me that it was an overseas Guyanese who owns a restaurant who had brought in those boxes since Christmas Eve day and was playing the music night and day. As I was talking to my relatives I could barely hear my own voice. I had to speak as if I was deaf because of the constant noise that was vibrating the entire place. My relatives couldn’t answer phone calls from well-wishers at home and abroad because they are unable to hear the speaker’s voice on their phones.

When I asked them if the police are patrolling in the area they said yes but that the police do nothing to the owner of the restaurant though people in the community reported him to the police. I find it very ridiculous that the police themselves have violated the law by not stopping the loud music they were hearing in that community. In a country like Suriname that restaurant owner would have been arrested and put into prison and his shop licence would have been revoked. Residents in the

community told me the man has ‘’a lot of lines’‘. What I have seen here is that lots of lawlessness has invaded our county left, right, and centre.

I walked down the street to take a good view of the restaurant. I noted with interest a very big movie screen in front of the restaurant’s owner’s yard where he also shows movies.

How can students study when a miscreant living in their community is disturbing their peace in their own homes? How can old people who are sick get their rest? How can decent citizens spend a decent Christmas with friends and family when they cannot hear their own voices in their own homes?

It seems as if these so-called laws that are passed about ‘’noise nuisance in our community and mini busses’‘ are just pieces of paper. Lots of these bar and restaurant owners and night clubs owners are destroying the moral fabric of our society by noise nuisance and the police do nothing about it. And we are seeing more and more bars, pools, shops, gambling houses, whorehouses, and dope houses rising on every street corner every day like a cancer in our society.

We should ask ourselves some very serious questions in our country. What have we achieved after 42 years of independence? Where are we heading morally, spiritually, and intellectually? Do we have strong laws in Guyana to protect our citizens from harm? What are the GDF and the police doing to protect the citizens of this country?

Noise nuisance has infiltrated our society from every corner. We have now become a reggae and dance hall society. Our ministers in government should come out of their offices and visit more communities to observe what is really happening. It’s about time the Ministry of Home Affairs as well as the police and GDF enforce the laws of ‘’Noise Nuisance’‘ for us to live in a more decent and quiet society. When we can live a life of peace and love then we will have the love of God for all mankind. What is lacking in our society is the love of God that will cause us to love our neighbours just like we love ourselves. I have seen too many selfish people in our society that have been breaking the laws of our land every day.

Yours faithfully,
Rev Gideon Cecil