PLEASE permit me to bring a matter to the relevant authorities before it becomes a cancer in our society.The Ease Chalet has recently opened a Fun Park on Aubrey Barker Road between the Festival City Entrance and Exit.

While I applaud the initiative to create opportunities for recreation in the community I contend that it cannot be at the expense of the corporate responsibility of the entity or the rights of the citizens who live in the area.
Every business that emerges in a community must be committed to the overall development of the community, or conflict is bound to arise between that business entity and the community. To ensure conflict areas are kept to a minimum, the owners of that business entity must orient its staff to the corporate responsibility of the business community to the general community.
All this seem to have been lost on the Ease Chalet, because from its opening it has now become our new noisy neighbour. It has played its music at indiscriminate hours and at indiscriminate decibel levels with absolutely no regard for the students in the community, some of whom had to endure its din while preparing for Common Entrance and some of whom are currently preparing for CXC and University of Guyana examinations.
At the time of penning this letter, at 11:54 pm, it is hosting a karaoke and is announcing that it will be hosting that activity Monday and Thursday nights. This, in my opinion, is inconsiderate, especially when there are so many schoolchildren living in the area who need to study and get adequate rest.
I think that this noise nuisance needs to be addressed now before, like so many other things in our society, it becomes foisted upon our community until we accept it. It needs to be addressed because it constitutes an abuse of the rights of the members of the community to peace and quiet after a hard day’s work, to be able to listen to their own televisions; and it also constitutes an assault on the young people in the community who deserve a chance to be able to excel academically.

JAMES T. MILLER