Weeks af­ter he was tipped for the role of chair­man of An­gos­tu­ra, for­mer Sport Min­is­ter Gary Hunt has of­fi­cial­ly been elect­ed to the board of di­rec­tors of An­gos­tu­ra.

Fol­low­ing a spe­cial meet­ing at the House of An­gos­tu­ra yes­ter­day, the Rad­i­cal De­signs CEO and founder was con­firmed in the role.

The oth­er nom­i­nees con­firmed as di­rec­tors on the com­pa­ny’s board were Pa­tri­cia Dindyal, Shiv­al Ma­haraj, Rox­ane De Fre­itas, and Jen­nifer Fred­er­ick.

Fras­er Thorn­ton who was al­so set to be elect­ed to the board, with­drew with­out an of­fi­cial rea­son be­ing pro­vid­ed at the meet­ing.

“The meet­ing was held this morn­ing, every­thing went off smooth­ly,” said share­hold­er Pe­ter Per­me­ll, “There were six nom­i­nees pre­sent­ed to the meet­ing, one was with­drawn and the oth­er five were elect­ed unan­i­mous­ly.”

Per­me­ll said the meet­ing swift­ly ad­dressed the is­sue of the board’s elec­tion.

“The elec­tion of di­rec­tors was the on­ly item on the agen­da. The meet­ing was suc­cess­ful­ly con­clud­ed. Ac­cord­ing­ly, at this time, I would just like to take this op­por­tu­ni­ty to con­grat­u­late the new­ly elect­ed board of di­rec­tors, wish them well while as­sur­ing them of my co­op­er­a­tion and sup­port. But most of all I wish to en­cour­age them to al­ways do their best and nev­er loose fo­cus of their most im­por­tant role and func­tion to grow the com­pa­ny and en­hance share­hold­er val­ue.”

The new An­gos­tu­ra board was elect­ed two months af­ter mem­bers of the pre­vi­ous board re­signed in the wake of crit­i­cism by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, who said some board mem­bers ap­point­ed un­der the pre­vi­ous ad­min­is­tra­tion were ‘hold­ing on shame­less­ly.’

On June 3, mem­ber of that board chaired by at­tor­ney-at-law Ter­rence Bharath and com­pris­ing Dr Ster­ling Frost, Dr Maryam Richards, Ger­ard Coop­er, Tri­cia Coos­al, and Fran­ka Costel­loe, re­signed from their posts.

Hunt was elect­ed Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West in 2007 as a mem­ber of the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment and served as Min­is­ter of Sport and Youth Af­fairs un­der then Prime Min­is­ter Patrick Man­ning.

Al­most a decade af­ter leav­ing pub­lic of­fice in 2010, his broth­er, Ahloy Hunt con­test­ed the St Joseph con­stituen­cy for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress in the 2020 gen­er­al elec­tion.