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  • 2 years ago
One day ahead of the biggest fireworks display in the country, the Fireworks Sufferers Association is calling on government to do something about noise pollution and the potential risk to people and property, due to the noisy pyrotechnic display.

Nicole M Romany has more on this story.
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00:00 President of the Association of Firework Use Sufferers, Nalini Diyal, says they have had
00:06 consultations with government officials on the matter, but to no avail.
00:11 And to the AG's office, we really need to hear from you what is your proposal you intend
00:18 to come with because we had the meetings with you all and we all suggested either a display
00:25 out on the waterfront on a barge or a total ban of fireworks now to the public.
00:31 We have reached to that point now.
00:34 She tells TV6 that despite their complaints and protests, people continue to set off fireworks
00:41 and they may cause irreversible harm to others.
00:45 And the problem is that the sale is so prevalent, it's all over, you can buy it, you can keep
00:51 it, you can set it off any time, any day, it doesn't even have to be Olympics or Diwali.
00:57 People are very wicked and they don't care about their neighbours or anybody.
01:01 They do it for fun.
01:04 Ms Diyal says the law must be put to use.
01:07 We always come back to enforcing the law.
01:11 There's a part in the draft, they said that people will be ticketed.
01:16 Who's going to give them this ticket?
01:18 We come back again on the night of the celebration, whichever celebration it is, and people are
01:24 setting off fireworks.
01:26 No police.
01:27 You can't even get the police to leave the station to go to check.
01:33 And by the time they reach, the people may have finished with the fireworks.
01:39 Nicole M Romany, TV6 News.
01:42 Thank you.
01:46 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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