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For sev­en years, the Ramkissoon fam­i­ly of Hum­ming Bird Av­enue, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande, has en­dured re­lent­less noise from a neigh­bour’s loud mu­sic, which they say is af­fect­ing their health. Both heart pa­tients, they re­port that the con­tin­u­ous noise is tak­ing a toll on their men­tal and phys­i­cal well-be­ing.

They have filed mul­ti­ple com­plaints with the po­lice and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), but the prob­lem per­sists. Ac­cord­ing to the fam­i­ly, a pro­fes­sion­al DJ plays mu­sic from a large truck, shak­ing their home. “The mu­sic starts at 11 p.m. and goes un­til morn­ing, pre­vent­ing us from sleep­ing and dis­turb­ing our chil­dren’s stud­ies,” they said.

The Ramkissoons said they spoke to their neigh­bours, but their com­plaints were ig­nored. De­spite warn­ings from au­thor­i­ties, the mu­sic stops tem­porar­i­ly be­fore re­sum­ing at full vol­ume.