As civ­il un­rest in Egypt con­tin­ues For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter, Su­ru­jrat­tan Ram­bachan, yes­ter­day an­nounced the Gov­ern­ment had made arrange­ments to bring the strand­ed T&T na­tion­als home. He said: "We are in con­tact with them and they are okay." Ram­bachan said of the 22 na­tion­als trapped five, who pos­sessed Unit­ed States pass­ports, had al­ready left the coun­try for the Unit­ed States.

He added: "We have arranged flights for the re­main­ing 17 and they all should ar­rive in Trinidad by Mon­day. Two are set to ar­rive on Sat­ur­day and the rest on Mon­day."Tick­ets were dif­fi­cult to find but through the hard work of our am­bas­sador to Ugan­da, Patrick Ed­wards, a lo­cal trav­el agent, and even through my search­ing, we were able to find trans­port for our na­tion­als," he said. Ram­bachan added the to­tal cost of the trans­port from Egypt to Trinidad was $200,000, ap­prox­i­mate­ly $11,500 a per­son. "Wher­ev­er T&T cit­i­zens are in dis­tress, we will be there to help," he added.