The crackdown on the noisy nuisance inflicted on residents in some rural and urban communities by kite owners who insist on having obnoxious bulls and other noisemakers on their kites, is long overdue.Barring politics and concerns about the state of the island’s roads and the long wait for services at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, this issue has for years generated some of the loudest complaints but has been met with little action.Members of the public finally got a hint of possible relief over a week ago when Attorney General Dale Marshall announced that Parliament would make amendments to the Minor Offences Act, prohibiting the flying of kites with noise-making apparatus from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.Said Marshall: “In simple terms, you can fly a kite for as long as you want so long as it does not have a bull because we all know that is what keeps the noise, and that is what causes the nuisance.”“So, the essence of this then, is that at seven o’clock in the night, that kite has to come down and it cannot be flown until six o’clock the next morning. So that between seven at night and six in the morning, any person that flies a kite with a bull or any other kind of noise-making apparatus will find themselves afoul of the law.”
