Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, is to shortly announce some of the areas that are to be designated as entertainment zones.

She made the disclosure during Tuesday’s sitting of the House of Representatives, while providing an update on activities planned for Reggae Month, being celebrated in February.

“We have started, for example, Olympic Way…it’s coming up. There are some locations…like Sabina Park, where, because there is an issue with parking, we’re trying to work through that,” Grange stated.

“If you have, in your constituencies, areas that you would want to recommend as an entertainment zone, please provide us with the information, and we will deal with it,” the Minister added.

Addressing the issue of noise abatement, Ms. Grange acknowledged that although it has “always been a sore issue, we do not have as much pushback right now from the Jamaica Constabulary Force.”

“We are working together…they hardly turned down an extension that I sign…we are working on regularising. But it won’t be the Noise Abatement [Act], it will be the sound regulation legislation, because music isn’t noise. So, we feel strongly that it should not be referred to as noise abatement, but rather [as] sound regulation,” she stated.