FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Charles Adams, who was arrested when Police stopped the music at Jerries in Waterloo Street early Monday morning, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday.

The defendant, of Lot 60 Light Street, also in Georgetown, was charged with making loud and continuous noise.

The disc jockey (DJ) pleaded not guilty to the charge, which said, on July 6, he operated a stereo music set that made noise which was so loud and continuous, as to cause annoyance to people.

Attorney-at-law Mr. Lennox Hanoman, for him, told the Court that Adams has been playing music for the past 35 years and the basis of the report is the jealousy of neighbours.

The lawyer said Cara Suites hotel is located in close proximity to Jerries and the rivalry is because customers choose to go to where Adams was playing, as the entertainment there is cheaper.

Hanoman said ‘oldies’ (old songs) have to be played at a level for persons to enjoy them.

He said Adams is concerned that his appliances were going to be lost or stolen since they were seized and lodged at Brickdam Police Station.

Police Corporal Munilall Seetaram, prosecuting, said the establishment, popularly known as ‘Tropicana’, had been warned several times in the past.

Adams was put on $10,000 bail and the case postponed to August 11.