The tranquility of Duke St. Kingston has been taken away

Nov 19, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
We the residents of Duke Street are writing to inform you about our disgust of the noisy parties and its effects that are constantly being held at Duke Lodge on weekends.
Over the past months Duke Lodge has been a host to open air parties that, in our opinion, are suited for night clubs and not a residential area like this.
The music is played very loudly, sometimes causing our houses to vibrate in tune with the base; the street is jammed with vehicles, and some drivers boldly park directly and or in front of our drive ways, blocking our entrances.
Party dwellers tend to linger on the street and on our drive ways uttering obscenities in conversation with each other at their highest vocal tones without regard for homeowners and or tenants who live there.
Furthermore, the parties attract food and drink vendors who set up their stands in front of our homes, either on our bridges or in front of our gates.
The parties go at full blast of the music until sometimes 4a.m without regard for nearby residents, their young children or the hospital in the other street.
At the end of the party the party dwellers get into their vehicles to leave and constantly blow their horns at each other creating even more noise to clear the traffic jam without regard for the residents of the neighbourhood, or the nearby hospital.
What is worse is the sight of the street the morning after the party.
There are piles of drink cups and bottles lying on our parapets, on our bridges and in our drains.
We the residents have lodged our complaints to the management of Duke Lodge, the police force and the Ministry of Home Affairs before, about the noise disturbance from the parties and the vehicles and vendors that block our entrances, but to no avail.
It seems as though the police themselves have no regard for the neighbourhood’s peace and security.
The famous response from our law enforcement body is “are aware of the situation and the patrol is on its way”, but as always they never show up and nothing is done.
The ministry recently published in our local news papers a list of night spots that they are monitoring because of the neighbours’ complaints about noise disturbances and security threats. Duke Lodge is not listed!
Therefore we have decided to make this issue known to the public. The public should not be deceived by the false impression about Duke Lode’s “glamourous existence” as a medium to promote tourism.
Rather over the weekends it’s nothing more than a noisy night spot and bar that is host for rowdy party dwellers and alcohol consumers.
It’s puzzling to know how can such a place function simultaneously as a hotel and host for overseas guests and as a rowdy open aired night club and bar?
We believe that the Duke Lodge is a good investment to our tourism industry as a hotel, restaurant and private bar, but not a place to host noisy late night disco-like parties.
Parties of that nature should be in an enclosed building to confine the guests to the building and not have them or the music disturb neighbours.
Moreso, some of us have international guest who rent our homes for residential purposes.
Some of which are diplomats, pilots, CEOs and the like.
Having such parties on the weekends greatly affects our guests and will cause us to lose business and in the long run, lose the area code and prestige that Duke Street holds.
This is so because not only do the parties disturb our guests, but it also seen as a security threat and make our neighbourhood look untidy both during and after the party, with the bottles and cups on the road, in our drains and on ours bridges.
We were once a quite peaceful residential neighbourhood, but now that tranquility has been taken away from us by the obscene late night parties hosted by Duke Lodge.
Residents

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