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Jerries’ owner arrested for noise nuisance

Mar 18, 2013 News

 

 
– lawyer calls it breach of protocol

Attorney-at -law Glenn Hanoman representing Jerry Bacchus, the proprietor of the popular hangout spot ‘Jerries’, is claiming that his client’s arrest for noise nuisance was against protocol.
The popular businessman was arrested in the predawn hours of yesterday morning, sometime around 2:00hrs, by three jeep loads of Police ranks, who had swooped down on his 177 Waterloo street business place.
Kaieteur News was told that on Saturday, an event was held at ‘Jerries’ in acknowledgement of St. Patrick’s Day. Promoters of that event only had permit to play loud music up to 12:00 midnight; and just around that time police visited the location and instructed that the music be lowered.
According to sources, after the warning, the music was lowered and remained at a moderate volume.
However, just about 02:00 hours, three jeep loads of ranks, headed by one Inspector Cumberbatch, returned to the location, “barged in” and demanded to speak with the owner. When Bacchus went to speak to the police he was promptly arrested and taken to North Ruimveldt Police Outpost.
Kaieteur News was made to understand that the police Inspector said he was operating specifically by instructions he received from the A division Commander Derrick Josiah.
However, Bacchus’s lawyer is saying that the usual protocol when making an arrest for noise nuisance is to arrest the individual making the noise, in which case it would be the disc jockey. “But my client was locked up to prove a point,” Hanoman told this newspaper.
Hanoman said “there is a history surrounding this entire thing. Over the past few weeks a campaign was launched to shut down Jerries.”
He identified the owner of a nearby hotel who he claimed has steadily been summoning the police to ‘Jerries’.
Meanwhile, a resident of the area pointed to a similar situation where loud music was being played just a few blocks away and the police did nothing about it although a report was made.
According to the resident the music from the Palm Court Restaurant and Bar, which is owned by a former government official, and just a few yards from the official residence of the President of Guyana, was much more annoying than ‘Jerries’ and the police adopted a hands off approach.
However, police refused to act on that call made; despite the fact that it was two hours after the permitted cut off time for music to be played as stipulated by the laws of Guyana.
This newspaper understands that music at the Palm Court continued playing until 5:00hrs without disturbance from the police.
After several hours in the cell Bacchus was released on $20,000 bail.

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