THE rehabilitation charity Vision on Mission (VoM) will be present at Piarco Airport to help guide a group of 21 nationals due to be deported to TT from the US on May 23, VoM head Giselle Chance told Newsday on May 21.

Amid lurid news headlines purporting to detail some deportees' offences, Chance said the general public would want any serious offenders to be monitored in TT, but she also urged people not to stigmatise deportees, even as VoM works towards their positive reintegration into TT society.

On April 6, Newsday reported that 11 TT nationals had just been deported on a flight from the US, whom VoM had similarly helped.