Tremaine So­ca Warn­er

Sev­en hors­es and their rid­ers from the Po­lice Mount­ed Branch were at­tacked by a swarm of bees on the Bri­an Lara Prom­e­nade, Port-of-Spain, yes­ter­day. As­sis­tant Su­per­in­ten­dent of Po­lice All­sop said he and his col­leagues were on pa­trol on the prom­e­nade while mem­bers of the T&T Uni­fied Teach­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TUT­TA) were protest­ing against the slow pace of their salary ne­go­ti­a­tions.

All­sop said around 2.30 pm the po­lice and their hors­es were at­tacked by the bees on In­de­pen­dence Square near St Vin­cent Street. He said the hors­es be­came ag­i­tat­ed by the bee stings and their rid­ers strug­gled to con­trol them. The sev­en of­fi­cers fled to safe­ty with their hors­es, scat­ter­ing in dif­fer­ent di­rec­tions.

Grif­fith, who said he could not see a horse in dan­ger, stopped his car and grabbed hold of the an­i­mal by its reins. Thomas ar­rived short­ly af­ter and col­lect­ed his horse. With him were PC Ross and Sgt Ram­per­sad, who said they were stung on their faces and arms, and were go­ing to seek med­ical at­ten­tion.