Venezue­lans who did not get the op­por­tu­ni­ty to reg­is­ter in To­ba­go on Fri­day, did so to­day af­ter and or­der was hand­ed down by Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young.

The sec­ond floor of the Port Mall, owned by busi­ness­man Christo­pher Tam, was turned in­to a tem­po­rary mi­gra­tion cen­tre to con­tin­ue the reg­is­tra­tion process in To­ba­go.

More than 600 Venezue­lan mi­grants were left un­reg­is­tered on Fri­day, af­ter the doors closed at 5 pm. Many be­came emo­tion­al af­ter they were told that they could not be ac­com­mo­dat­ed.

The mi­grants were es­cort­ed by po­lice to the Port Mall in Scar­bor­ough, an ac­tion that Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty Stu­art Young said was not sanc­tioned by him, the Chief Im­mi­gra­tion Of­fi­cer or the Com­mis­sion­er of Po­lice.

Many of them slept on cots, mat­tress­es and on the floor of the Port Mall. They were al­so able to recharge their cell phones and use the build­ing's re­strooms.

Around 8 am to­day, new num­bers and hand­bands were dis­trib­uted and the process be­gan mov­ing apace.

The mi­grants were com­fort­ably seat­ed in an air­con­di­tioned area on the top floor of the mall, doc­u­ments in hand and were be­ing moved to the sec­ond floor in batch­es to com­plete their reg­is­tra­tion process.

There was a def­i­nite sense of ease and grat­i­tude, as they were fi­nal­ly get­ting what they have been seek­ing for the past two weeks.

Up to 4 pm, over 200 mi­grants had al­ready re­ceived doc­u­ments.

Hu­man­i­tar­i­an aid con­tin­ued as sev­er­al faith-based or­gan­i­sa­tions, NGOs and oth­er pri­vate cit­i­zens in To­ba­go brought meals, wa­ter, drinks, snacks, toi­letries and clothes for those who have been en­dur­ing the long wait for the past days.