Complaining can't suppress loud music from different venues

In his reaction to my letter on loud noise, Leo Brincat states that he raised my complaint on three different occasions and I confirm that.

But did his raising my complaint change anything? No it didn't because the inconvenience caused by loud music (and even not-so-loud music coming from another two venues in Għargħur Road) continues to this day.

Mr Brincat should distinguish between referring a complaint to the competent authority and actually seeing that action is taken so that there won't be a need to complain in future.

What he failed to mention was that he took the Minister's reply to his parliamentary question as the God-given truth without bothering to check the facts before writing back to me on October 2, 2007.

The truth is that the law works in favour of the perpetrators. A reply received from the office of Joseph Muscat MEP confirms that the only way to seek a remedy is to file a report with the local police station each and every time the establishment creates an inconvenience. When the owner of the establishment is taken to court you have to give evidence and if you feel that after the second or third time the fine imposed is not in accordance with the law, then and only then, can the office of the MEP investigate why the fine imposed was not according to the law.

Now doesn't that, Mr Brincat, fill one with hope and encouragement to take on the world?