The Justice Minister appealed to the court in his capacity as the MP for St Joseph. His argument is that the location for the fete is too cl;ose to the Mount Hope Hospital and the noise level affects patients and staff at the hospital.
"Following the dictates and the wishes of my constituents as well as the staff at the hospital who have approached me, I have decided that it will be my duty to mount an objection to the granting of that licence and, in fact, the fete itself to be held on the WASA grounds," the former judge told the magistrate.
"The principal basis of the objection is the proximity of the Children's Hospital as well as the babies' hospital.
"The nurses and other people during my stay at the hospital came to me and they asked me to take up this cause on their behalf because they say when the boom boxes start, the children and the babies are traumatised and bawl throughout the night and they suffer greatly because of the noise, as well as the patients, many of them have come out of surgery and it really is a trauma for the whole hospital," Volney said.
He was a patient there last year when he underwent emergecy cardiac by-pass surgery.
"People are not able to sleep. From the poor people of Bangladesh to the people in other surrounding communities, including myself who live in the area. I cannot sleep until after 4 a.m., when the music goes off," Volney said.
The environmental management agency (EMA) is joining his case, which has been been adjourned until next Wednesday, January 26. The fete is scheduled for January 29.
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