Renu­ka Singh

Ahloy Hunt, broth­er of Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) for­mer min­is­ter of sport and youth af­fairs Gary Hunt has been se­lect­ed by the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) to con­test the St Joseph seat.

Hunt has a tough bat­tle ahead of him as the seat has been won in two elec­tions by PNM's Min­is­ter of Health Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

Deyals­ingh first won the seat in No­vem­ber 2013 af­ter the Peo­ple's Part­ner­ship was forced to call a by-elec­tion when for­mer jus­tice min­is­ter Her­bert Vol­ney demit­ted of­fice.

The UNC had then field­ed tele­vi­sion host Ian Al­leyne for that seat and lawyer On Lal­la con­test­ed un­der the In­de­pen­dent Lib­er­al Par­ty um­brel­la. Deyals­ingh beat both men.

In 2015, in the gen­er­al elec­tion, Deyals­ingh was chal­lenged by for­mer trade min­is­ter Vas­ant Bharath.

Bharath failed to top­ple Deyals­ingh and the PNM re­tained St Joseph.

Hunt, a lieu­tenant colonel, is now on the se­cu­ri­ty team at the Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU).

Ac­cord­ing to his bio, Hunt has over 30 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence in se­cu­ri­ty at the high­est lev­els in both na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR).

His al­so helped de­vel­op the op­er­a­tion di­vi­sions of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Spe­cial An­ti-crime Unit (SAUTT), Strate­gic Ser­vices Agency (SSA), com­plet­ed the re­design and con­struc­tion of the Na­tion­al Op­er­a­tion Cen­tre (NOC) com­mand cen­ter and re­con­sti­tut­ed the Sec­ond In­fantry Bat­tal­ion of (TTR).