Music lovers treated with kid gloves, coddled

Sep 16, 2026 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column

(Kaieteur News) – Guyanese love their music. I do, too. The problem is that Guyanese love their music much too much. It’s a big problem, a national one. Citizens clash with members of the Guyana Police Force trying to do their job, establish sanity around the Kitty area. Citizens in Leonora so caught up in the revelries, frenzies, and ecstasies of booming music that they forget it’s the birthplace of Guyana’s Pres. Ali. If thinking of the worsts way to disrespect Guyana’s head-of-state, music blasts at all hours do so. Done almost round-the-clock. Not a beat lost from the partying to care about insulting Guyana’s president, Guyana’s Police, Guyana’s people.

People such as working-class villagers, who toil for their honest dollars. They count, don’t they? People like dedicated students, who must put in time during the nighttime. They are the future; said so, hasn’t it? People include newborn babies, toddlers, and frail elders. There’re still seen as people, aren’t they? So, somebody in the PPP Govt., in the Police Dept., in the law division, should have the courage and courtesy to share with the sleep-battered, eardrum-bruised, and homestead-besieged in the capital city and countryside, how it is that noise explosions and noise casualties go unaddressed, are left on their own?