THE Home Affairs Ministry has responded to persistent complaints from senior citizens and other residents about loud noise from bars, churches, workshops, homes and other places and has directed the police to stop the nuisance.

A ministry advertisement in newspapers has listed the places around the country about which it said it is continuing to receive numerous complaints from senior citizens, the sick, working parents, students and several law-abiding citizens.

Among the places listed as causing loud, repetitive and continuous noise are residences in Kitty and Campbellville, Georgetown; Eccles, Grove, Meadow Bank and Bagotostown, East Bank Demerara; Hyde Park, Timehri; Success on the East Coast Demerara; Bartica; West Coast Demerara; East Bank Essequibo; Corentyne, Berbice and Linden.

Bars listed include one on Station Street, Kitty; one on Bent Street, Wortmanville; the Soca Paradise Bar at Eccles; and Lambada Liquor Parlour and Stadium View Bar at Providence on the East Bank Demerara; Barrow’s Bar in Linden; Jameel’s Bar at Vryheid’s Lust; Playboy Hideout Bar on Seventh Street, Success on the East Coast Demerara; and Caribbean Temptation Restaurant and Bar at Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara.

A mechanical workshop at Armadale, West Coast Berbice and another at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara; a furniture factory at Courbane Park, East Coast Demerara and a saw mill at Dryshore on the Essequibo Coast, are also on the list.

Churches reported as causing noise nuisance include the Gethsemane Assemblies of God Church in Beezie, Enmore, another in Enterprise and a Hindu temple at Mon Repos on the East Coast Demerara; and a church at Ocean Gardens Housing Scheme, Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara.

The ministry said it checked the places complained about and has verified the “validity and justification of the complaints”.

It said the relevant Divisional Commanders of the Police Force have been provided with the details pertaining to these complaints and they have been directed to take appropriate action to stop the violations of the law.

Under the law, no person shall operate any stereo set, juke box, radio, amplifier or similar instruments 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”.