Two illegal furniture manufacturers at Lusignan plaguing our lives

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Two illegal furniture manufacturers at Lusignan plaguing our lives
Monday, June 25th 2007

Dear Editor,

We the residents of Lusignan West, West Coast Demerara wish to express
our dissatisfaction at the manner in which the EPA is handling our
complaints concerning dust and noise nuisances emanating from two
illegal furniture manufacturers in our area.

We expressed our grievances to the EPA on Decem-ber 5, 2006. They
responded by an inspection and by letter dated January 24, 2007 stating
that our complaint was valid and had promised to do a follow-up
inspection.

A follow-up inspection was done on April 24, 2007 and the EPA by letter
dated May 16, 2007, states that some measures were implemented to abate
noise and dust pollution. Based on some measures implemented by these
businesses the EPA has granted an extension of two months so that they
can implement all measures to mitigate dust and noise impacts.

We feel that this extension is unjustified because no measures were
taken to mitigate such nuisances. We are asking these EPA officials to
spend one day next to these workshops and they would know what we are
going through.

We are fed up with this ongoing situation and would like to ask the
Honourable Minister of Home Affairs who is on a campaign against noise
nuisances to look into this matter.

Yours faithfully,

(name and address

provided)

Editor's note

We are sending a copy of this letter to the Minister of Home Affairs,
Mr Clement Rohee, for any comments he may wish to make.