Stop the noise!

THE EDITOR, Madam:

HERE IN our community of Friendship in Islington, the loud and sometimes profane music is almost an everyday occurrence and this morning (16/11/2000) the 'music' started before 7:30 a.m. Noise is noise and if construction workers cannot start banging etc. before a certain hour need I say more about these music lovers?

Calls to the police are certainly a laughing matter. Cars, including those driven by the police, must go around the boom boxes in the street. Yes - I saw this. But my major concerns are the children - our Jamaica of tomorrow - who are growing up in a society where this loud music is considered the norm; where speeding cars angrily blow their horns, a definite threat to life; where our streets from one end to the other has become a garbage dump; and where animal 'do' is still a menace to walking tall.

Perhaps if more of us concerned citizens speak out - there is strength in unity - the music lovers across the island would get the message.

I am, etc.,

EVELYN M. BELNAVIS

St. Mary

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