I was just looking at the THE STAR newspaper of Wednesday, November 25, and saw an article on Page 15 regarding complaints from UTech students who were unable to concentrate on their studies because of the noise from a party on the campus nearby on Thursday nights. The story went on to say that the person in authority and responsible had "no knowledge" of the complaints. This is so very typical of our sad and sick condition in Jamaica today.

On Monday, all day, an event was held at Devon House ostensibly to promote 'safe sex' on World AIDS Day. What a travesty! What a sad joke and a disaster, because all it was, to we who live nearby and had to swallow it, was a huge nuisance and noise at an indescribable and stultifying level which lasted all day long.

Chaos

Our house vibrated with the bass booming, the dancehal type DJs screaming and shouting over the microphone, and the myriad car alarms protesting and adding their ear-splitting lament to the general chaos of noise. It was like New Year's Eve in hell.

Numerous calls to the police had absolutely no effect and it continued unremitting, stressing us out in our own home to the point of tears on my part because my son was trying desperately to study for his exams and my husband was ill and trying to sleep.

This is where are now, this is the reality - the population of this country is completely out of any kind of control, and we are deep in the excrement of indiscipline, from the most elevated and privileged to the most needy.

I won't even go into detail about the noise from Devon House patrons on other days - Sunday afternoons and nights are the worst, with the roaring of car engines as they race along the back driveway/parking lot, their car music systems blasting in competition with each other, the alarms, the screaming children, the quarrelling, cursing and drunken adults! What are the security guards there to do?

May God help us - but He won't, if even the local authorities can't.

I am, etc.,

SADAN TAYAD

Kingston 10