00:00It's all fun with oil, paint and mud come juve for those in bands parading the streets on Carnival Monday
00:07morning.
00:07But for residents of Patna Street St. James, it's an annual nightmare to see the level of defacement left behind.
00:15We all love Carnival, we play mass and everything, but you don't have to paint people's walls to enjoy mass.
00:22And those people probably don't live in St. James. I don't know where they live.
00:26I would assume that.
00:29They wouldn't, you know, we wouldn't go and paint the walls. We don't know who they are.
00:33Because they're in mud and they're in oil and it's unfair.
00:37I think it's ridiculous the way how the bands come through here and just paint up everybody's walls.
00:45And I don't think it's right for them to be doing that. Why don't they stay in their neighborhood and
00:51do it?
00:52It's an expensive chore for every household impacted in this residential community.
00:58Thousands of dollars they say they shouldn't have to spend.
01:02Two years ago I painted this whole house, wall inside out. It cost me about $7,000.
01:08So we have to paint this now. I had to go back and spend about another $1,000 to buy
01:12two gallon of paints and then pay a painter.
01:15So I could imagine for her that whole wall, that green wall, she just did that last year.
01:20The whole wall need to be painted. How much something had that proposed?
01:25It cost me, last year, it cost me over $2,000.
01:30St. Mary's RC, right, which has been recently renovated and painted.
01:36And I saw the whole side of the church, the whole side, from the main road going up, painted.
01:45I said, Lord, I have no respect. But by Carnival Tuesday, Father Manipier, the priest, the parish priest,
01:55he had a whole crew cleaning and he painted over the church by Carnival. But that isn't there.
02:01Residents say they've contacted the police, but were told there is nothing that can be done.
02:07And besides the painting, the noise level is very loud. And there are elderly people living around here.
02:15My mom is 98, going on 99 in May. Mr. Austin, two houses somewhere, he'll be 99 as well.
02:23There are a couple behind here, they're very ill.
02:26The residents say, while there are no cameras to prove which bands are responsible for the damage they've suffered,
02:33they want band leaders to step up and take responsibility for their masqueraders.
02:39Cindy Ragubantika Singh, TV6 News.
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