The En­vi­ron­men­tal Man­age­ment Au­thor­i­ty (EMA) has is­sued new guide­lines for Pub­lic No­tices to be fol­lowed by mem­bers of the pub­lic ap­ply­ing for Noise Vari­a­tion Per­mits un­der the Noise Pol­lu­tion Con­trol Rules. 

En­ter­tain­ment stake­hold­ers al­so are be­ing re­mind­ed by the EMA to ad­here to the ex­ist­ing Code of Prac­tice gov­ern­ing noise con­trol.

“The EMA takes this op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­mind all in the En­ter­tain­ment In­dus­try that A Code of Prac­tice for the Con­trol of Noise in the Mu­sic En­ter­tain­ment In­dus­try in Trinidad and To­ba­go was es­tab­lished, which out­lines guide­lines for the use of noise con­trol bar­ri­ers, caus­es and ef­fects of hear­ing loss and strate­gies for the en­ter­tain­ment in­dus­try,” the EMA says in its ad­vi­so­ry.

It added: “The EMA al­so calls on cit­i­zens to act re­spon­si­bly and re­spect­ful­ly to their neigh­bours and in their com­mu­ni­ties, un­der­stand­ing that noise pol­lu­tion is dele­te­ri­ous to all.”

The new guide­lines for Pub­lic No­tices came in­to ef­fect as of Mon­day 5 Sep­tem­ber 2022:

The pub­lic is re­mind­ed to ad­here to these per­ti­nent de­tails when prepar­ing no­tices:

1.   No­tice must be of min­i­mum di­men­sion: 3cm (W) x 10 cm (H).

2.   All oth­er con­di­tions re­main the same, in­clud­ing the pub­li­ca­tion of the No­tice in any one of the dai­ly news­pa­pers for two (2) con­sec­u­tive days.

3.   No­tices must ap­pear at least thir­ty-five (35) days be­fore the event/ac­tiv­i­ty.

The EMA in­vites the pub­lic to view a sam­ple of the new for­mat in a de­tailed ad­ver­tise­ment tem­plate on its web­site at www.ema.co.tt