IT is time a more serious approach on this horrible noise abuse and continuous attack on people’s health, peace and comfort be taken more seriously by the authorities, especially on Sheriff and Seaforth Streets, Campbellville, respectively. Also, private vehicle owners who continue to harass citizens any hour of the night on Sheriff Street when there are dance promotions by those night club owners who operate there.

These heartless, cruel, insensitive individuals, especially the night club owners and those who come out to lime continue to brutalise us and our very young children and they do whatever they want, as long as they want and no one is doing anything permanent to stop them, except when the now deceased ‘A’ Division Commander Mr Derrick Josiah proved different in his brief role as ‘A’ Division Commander, the noise stopped completely from one particular entity. When he served justice was served, now everything is right back to how it was noise, noise and more noise.
Christmas is supposed to be a time for peace, love, caring and sharing not for being exposed for hours and have your brain savagely beaten with heavy bass and loud music night after night until the wee hours of the mornings. Leading up to Christmas and on the eve of Christmas, the parties never stopped until 5 am from one entity and 6:15 am on Christmas morning from another, despite calls being made on more than one occasion since 4 am to get some kind of relief until a patrol that was being summoned over and over again finally responded. I wish to thank the female rank who did her duty promptly, and also a male rank from Impact Base who also responded to stop the noise from a vehicle parked nearby when I called in tears earlier that day. I was not feeling well.
By 7:15am on Christmas morning the noise nuisance from Seaforth Street started. A patrol was summoned by me; the music stopped for about 20 minutes and started again, eventually it stopped and I was able to get some sleep after being exposed to over 11 hours of loud, savage bass in the form of music and I was sick. I was forced to visit the hospital Boxing Day to check my pressure because of terrible pain around my neck and head. By the time I returned home at 16:45 hrs, noise was already invading my residence from the entity opposite my residence. It was a horrible nightmare as the noise continued from the two entities located there. The music never stopped until 03:15 hrs this Friday morning. I am now more sick from lack of sleep and from being forced to endure a set of filth with heavy bass, from which there was no escape.
No one cares about the citizens of this country. Why are these heartless monsters being allowed to take away people’s health like this? Tonight is another session and Saturday and Sunday and every night these people are allowed to harass and torment others while they and their families are in their homes safe from this torment. Will someone in authority, someone with feelings, I mean someone who has people’s welfare at heart do something about this brutal continuous attack of noise abuse?
It is time these night club owners be instructed to sound proof their business using the correct procedure. Expensive though it may be, it isn’t a tall order for some of them. It is time all these over-sized boom boxes be removed from all vehicles, it is time some citizens who continue to harass their neighbours completely defying and ignoring that there is a noise nuisance law be prosecuted and brought before the courts and jailed for at least one day by the police. It is time those in authority prove that they are capable of eradicating this horrible curse and crime.

SEVERELY AFFECTED