Attorney At Law Says Noise Pollution In Saint Lucia ‘Out Of Hand’

While Saint Lucia awaits a revised or new noise abatement act in Parliament, one local Attorney says that there is a section of the current Criminal Code that adequately addresses the situation. And, no one is exempt he says, not even politicians, police or preachers. Ahead of a sitting of Parliament in September, Gros Islet MP Kenson Casimir had promised that the act would be tabled. However, Casimir later informed the media that the Attorney General’s office was having issues arriving at a safe and acceptable noise level. However, one city lawyer who spoke anonymously to  St. Lucia Times  asserts that section 550-551 of the revised laws of Saint Lucia 2021 can be applied to the problem of noise pollution. Under section 550, the act states as follows; (1) A person who, without reasonable excuse, proof of which lies on him or her— (a) in any public place; (b) in or in connection with any business, or other place to which the public is admitted; (c) in any premises; or (d) in any vehicle, by operating or allowing to be operated any musical instrument, speaker or amplifier causes, or allows to be made any loud and continuous sound or noise,...