For sev­en years, the Ramkissoon fam­i­ly of Hum­ming Bird Av­enue, Ojoe Road, San­gre Grande, has en­dured re­lent­less noise from a neigh­bour’s loud mu­sic, which they say is af­fect­ing their health. Both heart pa­tients, they re­port that the con­tin­u­ous noise is tak­ing a toll on their men­tal and phys­i­cal well-be­ing.

They have filed mul­ti­ple com­plaints with the po­lice and the En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA), but the prob­lem per­sists. Ac­cord­ing to the fam­i­ly, a pro­fes­sion­al DJ plays mu­sic from a large truck, shak­ing their home. “The mu­sic starts at 11 p.m. and goes un­til morn­ing, pre­vent­ing us from sleep­ing and dis­turb­ing our chil­dren’s stud­ies,” they said.

The Ramkissoons said they spoke to their neigh­bours, but their com­plaints were ig­nored. De­spite warn­ings from au­thor­i­ties, the mu­sic stops tem­porar­i­ly be­fore re­sum­ing at full vol­ume.

Oth­er res­i­dents, speak­ing anony­mous­ly to Guardian Me­dia, said they fear re­port­ing the is­sue due to threats from in­di­vid­u­als con­nect­ed to the house­hold. They claim that po­lice of­fi­cers liv­ing at the res­i­dence re­veal the iden­ti­ties of those who file com­plaints. “We’re liv­ing in hell,” one res­i­dent said. “Our chil­dren can’t study, and work­ing adults strug­gle through the day with­out rest.”

San­gre Grande po­lice con­firmed re­ceiv­ing com­plaints and said they have warned those re­spon­si­ble. How­ev­er, a se­nior of­fi­cer ex­plained that they can­not re­main at the scene all night, as they have oth­er ar­eas to pa­trol.

The Ramkissoons al­so re­port­ed ha­rass­ment, say­ing that peo­ple uri­nate on their fence posts, block their dri­ve­way, and mock them for re­port­ing the dis­tur­bances. “They tell us, ‘Go and re­port it. We own San­gre Grande Po­lice,’” the fam­i­ly al­leged.

The fes­tive sea­son brings ad­di­tion­al dis­tress, as fire­works land on their roof and in their yard. “As el­der­ly peo­ple, we can’t even en­joy peace in our own home,” they said. “How much longer must we en­dure this noise, four nights a week?”

They are now plead­ing for in­ter­ven­tion from the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice, hop­ing for a res­o­lu­tion that will al­low them to live in peace.