Issue: Noise law must prevail

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I am in total support of the letter in yesterday's Gleaner by Robin Baston, arguing that the night-noise law must remain. I now express my dismay and horror that it could even be considered to be removed or made any less effective.

We have and live in a society of noise all around us all the time, day and night, from all sorts of sources: pounding stereo sounds from buses and taxis and cars on the road and parked in public places, blasting music from competing entities' boom boxes in the shopping plazas, parties/sessions here and there and everywhere with blaring music and screaming DJs, caterwauling car alarms without cessation, day after day and night after night.

Any possibility of peace and quiet is entirely dependent on the relentless application of the Noise Abatement Act. This is because our people, as a people, do not care about each other.

Laws are being changed and 'eased up' as a desperate measure to make the job of the police easier, because there are not enough police and there are too many criminals.

Our people are crude, undisciplined, scornful of other peoples', older folks' and children's pain and rights, so that, in fact, Jamaica might now be very reasonably categorised as having antisocial personality disorder on a national basis.

So let's just ease up on everyone, and it's anarchy for all.

I am, etc.,

L. DUPERROUZEL

Kingston 10