Despite protest from the community a month-long religious crusade will go ahead as planned at the Mt Rush Housing Development.
Tenants of the Housing Authority of Grenada have failed to stop the Seventh Day Adventist crusade which opens in their community Sunday night.
Last Sunday residents vented their feelings on the issue during a meeting with members of the Board of the Housing Authority, called to raise concerns about the breaking of the tenant covenants, including the noise clause.
The Authority has been regularly granting permission to Religious bodies to hold extended events at the Mt Gay/Mt Rush Housing Development and this has stirred the anger of residents who do not welcome the noise disturbance so close to their homes.
But residents had a litany of complaints of their own, including what they view as a wanton disregard of their tenant rights, through practice of giving permission for loud, night time religious events without their knowledge and approval.
The Seventh Day Adventist crusade which starts this weekend, will be for the entire period leading up to the start of local and external examinations and parents said they are worried about the impact this will have on their children’s preparations.
“Are we living in Nineveh or Mt Rush,” asked one of the many vocal residents protesting what they said is the constant bombardment of fire and brimstone from one denomination or the other, sometimes multiple times in one month.
“These people are loud, loud. We have school children here and shift workers who have to sleep”, said a resident.
But despite the concerns about the month-long nightly preaching and music in the midst of the residences and the timing, so close to critical exams, Authority Chairman Ashton Frame said they would not stop the planned crusade, though there would be no new approvals granted.
Speaking at the podium, Frame announced to the affected residents, “I personally, will give the order to cease these crusades”.
“We have already given permission for this one, so we will let it go ahead,” Frame said at the end of the community meeting.
Church officials are currently in the community overseeing the set up of a stage and erection of a large tent to facilitate the crusade.