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Cari­com Am­bas­sador Ralph Maraj—and oth­ers in var­i­ous sec­tors—yes­ter­day wel­comed Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar’s ac­tion against the noise men­ace in Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Fol­low­ing the word of the PM’s in­struc­tions that all fetes at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my be stopped, as the noise has be­come un­bear­able for res­i­dents, Maraj is­sued a state­ment, say­ing, “For years, in my news­pa­per columns and ra­dio shows, I railed against noise pol­lu­tion in Trinidad and To­ba­go. As promised in the elec­tion cam­paign, Prime Min­is­ter Per­sad-Bisses­sar is tak­ing strong ac­tion against this na­tion­al men­ace.”

Per­sad-Bisses­sar, in her post on X (for­mer­ly Twit­ter), said that for far too long, the is­sue of noise pol­lu­tion and its im­pact on com­mu­ni­ties had been ig­nored, and her Gov­ern­ment was com­mit­ted to ad­dress­ing this as promised, with leg­is­la­tion be­fore year-end. She as­sured the fire­works law will be passed in Par­lia­ment, and in ad­di­tion, en­hanced noise pol­lu­tion leg­is­la­tion will be in­tro­duced to reg­u­late des­ig­nat­ed qui­et hours, as well as new re­stric­tions on fetes, mu­sic trucks, res­i­den­tial par­ties, and bars.