APPROXIMATELY two weeks ago, I read a letter written by one of our respected matriarchs Miss Eileen Cox, in which she lamented the noise nuisance on the sea wall at weekends.

This respectable consumer activist, who has lived a full life, having gone past four score years, would like in these twilight hours to live in peace. But this is not to be because every Sunday evenings instead of her sitting in her rocking chair to listen to some soft, relaxing music then possibly dozing off to bed, she is constantly tormented by loud, lewd pulsating noises coming from the seawall. This torture goes on for hours on end, way into the wee hours of the next day. This is heart-rending lawlessness that knows no bounds. And to think of it there is no redress because you report the matter to the police only to get a cold shoulder. They too are in collusion with the lawlessness calling it culture; “one really cannot do anything with people wanting to enjoy themselves.”  Yes, people have a right to enjoy themselves but not at the expense of others’ comfort. This seawall lime has nothing to do with a free spirit of enjoyment; it has to do with the culture of lawlessness that has enveloped Guyana, Georgetown in particular.

I have had the dishonour to visit, rather pass by, that place once and the noise was so deafening that I could not hear my own voice when I spoke. Not forgetting the drugs, the rape, many young girls are raped amidst the confusion. Well, many of those girls do not mind the sex because that’s what these things are set up for. That is what this lime is all about- the cheap sex. Then, it is the piles of rubbish Styrofoam containers and broken bottles to deal with the next day. Ironically, the garbage is cleaned up very quickly which tells me that either the city council or the organisers of this fete are well au fait in garbage removal. Now I must retract the idea that the City Council removes the garbage. I would hate to think they are the ones that remove the garbage; don’t think they ever do. Seeing rubbish is the new urban symbol for Georgetown it would be a miracle that they would take the pains to clear away that treasured symbol. Interesting!

Now seeing the lawlessness would not go away I hereby call a truce. Have this lawlessness shifted to that section of the seawall between Celina’s Bar and maybe Camp Road. Reason being, that section of the seawall is far removed from the earshot of decent, law-abiding citizens and the reckless abandon can continue irrespective of the people’s complaints.