The Editor, Sir:

For too long Jamaica has been battling pollution of our environment. We have witnessed the creeping pollution of our rivers, beaches, and air. Garbage diminishes the beauty of our highways and byways.

Now we can add to the growing list the jarring onslaught of noise pollution. Not a day passes without some angry citizen calling a radio station or writing a letter of complaint to The Gleaner or some other newspaper.

Residential communities are bombarded by rumbling commercial trucks, speeding taxis, and screaming motorcycles which use the roads as shortcuts to their destinations 24 hours per day. Barking dogs recently prompted an incensed foreign ambassador to consider leaving Jamaica. Add the off key rantings of the dance hall DJ and concert venues that have scant regard for the communities they disturb and we have sleep-deprived irritable Jamaicans who long for a little peace and quiet.

I am, etc.,

R.OSCAR LOFTERS

lofters1@aol.com

Benson Terrace

Via Go-Jamaica