The lobby group Citizens Against Noise Pollution is calling on the Police Service and the Environmental Management Authority to do more to deal with noise pollution.
00:00Director of Citizens Against Noise Pollution, Lindy Ann Bechu, is turning up the volume on their public demands for bold and firm action to be taken to address the ongoing problem.
00:13She tells TV6 the existing laws are outdated and more action is urgently required.
00:19The laws are archaic and they are not in keeping with developed country status.
00:25I wanted to bring up the EMA's woeful lack of sensitization in this country.
00:34Our authoritative bodies are failing us and failing us spectacularly and I make no bones about that.
00:40Bechu is demanding a crackdown on bars and even residents who blast music without the use of any sound mitigation or sound barriers.
00:49She says it is time officials finally confront and curb the deafening problem plaguing communities.
00:57According to Bechu, the group was called before Joint Select Committee of Parliament on the matter two years ago and advocated for quiet time laws.
01:06Quiet time laws basically are protected hours of sleep and that is one legislative change that can help with actually helping the police.
01:15So that you know within a particular time frame, let's say like for instance in the UK, I think it's between 11pm and 7am, right?
01:23You cannot have any type of excessive noise.
01:26Meanwhile, Tamara Chattar, an administrator and public relations officer for the group, describes the assault of noise pollution as a crisis.
01:36It is a public health crisis right now and we have to see urgency in treating this because what do you think we're doing when somebody has high blood pressure?
01:47Some senior citizen who worked his whole life in public service serving our country who now has to jump up with a pacemaker, right?
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