With New Year’s Day less than a week away, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs Kennedy Swarats­ingh is urg­ing the pub­lic to be con­sid­er­ate in their use of fire­works for Old Year’s Night cel­e­bra­tions by obey­ing the law.

Yes­ter­day, Swarats­ingh, who is the line min­is­ter for the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), which ad­dress­es in­stances of noise pol­lu­tion, told Guardian Me­dia that the re­cent­ly pro­claimed leg­is­la­tion clear­ly pro­vides the guide­lines for fire­works use.

He ac­knowl­edged that while Old Year’s Night was tra­di­tion­al­ly a time of cel­e­bra­tion, which used fire­works, such fes­tiv­i­ties should not cause dis­tress or in­con­ve­nience to oth­ers.