ACTING Commissioner of Police (CoP) Junior Benjamin stepped out from the Police Administration Building, Port of Spain, to calm a group of about 35 women from Sea Lots angrily protesting an alleged lack of police action over their complaints of being attacked by men from the nearby Beetham Highway community.

On Ash Wednesday, March 5, the women complained of a spike in attacks on residents of Pioneer Drive, Sea Lots west on the morning of Carnival Monday, March 3, that had left them afraid to come out of their community to go to work or to take their children to school for fear of being further assaulted.

They told Newsday they had suffered several stabbings on March 3, and on an ongoing basis have been chased, threatened and robbed by certain unruly young men living nearby. It is long-standing situation which flares up from time to time, residents said.