THE Ministry of Home Affairs has listed the names and addresses of businesses and residences, in six Police Divisions, from where loud, repetitive and continuous music is played, creating noise nuisance.

The listing follows the pile up of complaints by affected senior citizens, the sick, workers, students and other law-biding citizens.
The locations include popular bars, such as Seeta’s, Buddy’s, Jerries and Baroombar, all in Georgetown.
The ministry said it has made checks at the locations on specified days and times and verified the validity and justification of the occurrences and wishes to inform that the relevant Divisional Commanders of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) have been provided with the details.
The Commanders have been directed to take appropriate action in keeping with the law pertaining to noise nuisance, the release said, citing Sub-section 1 of Section 174A of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act as amended by Act No. 1 of 1989.
It states: “No person shall, in any road, street, public place or land or in building or premises, by operating or causing or suffering to be operated any stereo set, juke box, radio, wireless loudspeaker, gramophone, amplifier, automatic piano or similar instrument 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.”

Summary conviction
Subsection (2) of Section 174A of the Summary Jurisdiction (Offences) Act, as amended by Act No.10 of 1998, states: “Any person who contravenes the provision of Subsection (1) shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine of not less than $7,500 nor more than $15,000 and to imprisonment for six months and, on a second or any subsequent conviction, to a fine of not less than $20,000 and to imprisonment for 12 months”.
The reports in ‘A’ Division are from:
* International Bar in Station Street, Kitty; Buddy’s Pool Hall & Night Club on Sheriff Street; Seeta’s Bar at Lot 6 Station Street, Kitty; White Castle Fish Shop at Lot 21 Hadfield Street, Werk-en-Rust; Baroombar Strip Club on North Road, Lacytown; Balram’s Sports Bar in Station Street, Kitty and a residence on the western premises of Lot 24 James Street, Albouystown; Jerries Restaurant, Bar and Night Club at Lot 177 Waterloo Street, South Cummingsburg and a residence at Lot 194 Deobriana Street, Prashad Nagar in Georgetown
*   Residences & Shops at Bent Street, Wortmanville; the junction
of Albouys Street and Punt Trench Dam, Albouystown and a
grocery Shop at Lot 51 Station Street, Kitty, also in
Georgetown.
* Firefest Caribbean Bar on Old Road, Providence and a liquor
restaurant at Lot 118 Covent Garden Island, both on East
Bank Demerara.

In ‘B’ Division:

* a residence with swimming pool at Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, Berbice.

In ‘C’ Division:

* a residence at Lot 22 Agriculture Road, Triumph Village; ATV’s at Happy Acres; Bobby’s Hangout Bar at Montrose and KK Gas Station at Mahaica, all on East Coast Demerara.

In ‘D’ Division:

* a furniture workshop at Lot 335 Tuschen North Housing Scheme and Bushy Park Beach Resort in Bushy Park Village, both on East Bank Essequibo; a night club at Lot 69 Vreed-en-Hoop and a music cart & Shop at Lot 47 New Road, Vreed-en-Hoop, on West Coast Demerara and a residence at Lot 182 Doctor Dam, La Grange, West Bank Demerara.

In ‘F’ Division:

* a shop owned by W. Cambridge at Baramita Village in Region 1 (Barima/Waini)  and

In ‘G’ Division:

* a rice mill at Dryshore, Essequibo Coast.