Trinidad and Tobago nationals in Suriname will be allowed to return home, of their own accord, as National Security Minister Stuart Young has granted permission for their return. The nationals who were stranded in Suriname have been trying for several weeks, through their attorneys, to get permission to land in T&T.

The news came on Monday morning at the same time that Minister Young explained that several private charter flights that landed at the Piarco International Airport (which were first revealed on social media over the weekend (see photo) were here to take several foreign nationals who were working on oil rigs out at sea, to return to their various countries.

He revealed that five charter flights came in on Saturday to take the 62 non-nationals who were brought in to land, at Chaguaramas via marine vessels and taken on a sanitized bus straight to Piarco. One of the chartered flights was bound for the Netherlands, according to Young who also revealed that the French military requested overpass flights while the US military came in two aircraft to collect military persons in Trinidad and South America. No one was allowed to disembark, the National security Minister explained on Monday morning.

The 60 T&T Nationals who will return home from Suriname will be quarantined upon arrival in T&T, although the date of their return is not yet fixed.