Supporters went to Piarco International Airport to welcome home the former prime minister and MP for San Fernando East to show solidarity with him.
Manning has been suspended from the House of representatives for the rest of the current session which ends around June 18. The Parliament made the decision about Manning after considering the report of the Privileges Committee, which found Manning guilty of contempt.
Manning had been sent before the committee for statements he made in parliament about the private residence of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar. He claimed her home cost more than $150 million to build and that it was financed by drug money.
Persad-Bissessar refuted his claims and produced evidence to show the house cost just a small fraction of that. However Manning stood by his story and refused to apologise.
Manning thanked his supporters and told them doctors in Cuba gave him a clean bill of health.
Speaking about his suspension, Manning called it an abuse of the parliamentary majority that the government has.
He said, "Whenever you don't have a proper separation of powers, there can be no liberty and justice."
Manning added, "You can see from what has happened that there was no justice. They took advantage of the fact that they have a majority in the Parliament to take nefarious acts that they will find out in due course is perhaps is one of their major mistakes in their tenure in office."
He said the government has treated him like an accused felon and promised to hold a series of consultations in his constituency.
He invited "other interested parties including my Political Leader, Dr Keith Rowley. On Monday evening, I will announce my next course of action. All I will say to you is that it now start."
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