Keep campaign music in check
Published:Thursday | December 8, 2011 | 12:00 AM
THE EDITOR, Sir:
Vehicle owners are often charged for driving around with loud audio playing from their vehicles. Nevertheless, the green and the orange vehicles that have been circling the Mandeville area campaigning for Danville Walker and Peter Bunting, respectively, have demonstrated no regard for the Noise Abatement Act.
The music and campaign announcements played from these vehicles are deafening. What's worse, even when passing by the many schools in Mandeville, most of which are conducting end-of-term examinations currently, such as El Instituto de Mandevilla, Belair High School, DeCarteret College, West Indies College Preparatory, and Northern Caribbean University, among others, the loud volume from these vehicles is not quelled.
This sort of shenanigans displays a lack of respect and cognisance on the part of those responsible for these campaign vehicles and demonstrates no respect for the public peace. I bet that if a taxi operator were to constantly breach the 100-metre limit referred to in the Noise Abatement Act, the police would have dealt with him already.
Yet, this public disturbance has continued for a few weeks now and nothing has been done about it. Politicians and their activists are not above the law.
JERMAINE JOHNSON