Sto­ry by GAIL ALEXAN­DER

The rul­ing Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment's screen­ing team has se­lect­ed top sports­woman Cleopa­tra Borel to re­place MP Mar­lene Mc­Don­ald in Port-of-Spain South and the La Brea ex­ec­u­tive has been sent back to find more nom­i­nees de­spite back­ing for­mer min­is­ter Robert Le Hunte for can­di­da­cy.

Those nom­i­nat­ed for PoS South were con­stituen­cy ex­ec­u­tive chair­man Wen­dell Stephens and Bri­an Lewis. Borel was al­so at the screen­ing. Mc­Don­ald was al­so nom­i­nat­ed but didn't turn up for screen­ing. Con­tact­ed around 8.15 am Fri­day, Mc­Don­ald an­swered her phone but didn't com­ment on the change. She is cur­rent­ly be­fore the courts on al­leged cor­rup­tion charges.

Borel, a shot put­ter and for­mer FCB Sports­woman of the Year awardee, was one of two for­mer top T&T and re­gion­al ath­letes cho­sen.

For­mer West In­dies fast bowler Mervyn Dil­lon was al­so

Giv­en the nod for To­co-Man­zanil­la.

Dil­lon, who played for the West In­dies from 1997-2005 and was the T&T Red Force coach up to this sea­son, will re­place in­cum­bent To­co MP Glen­da Jen­nings-Smith, who was nom­i­nat­ed for screen­ing among a to­tal of sev­en nom­i­nees for the con­stituen­cy. Richards got the nod in Point Fortin de­spite Point ex­ec­u­tive sup­port for re­tired as­sis­tant po­lice com­mis­sion­er Don­ald De­noon.

La Brea's nom­i­nees were in­cum­bent Nicole Olivierre and Le Hunte. But La Brea's ex­ec­u­tive was asked to widen its search for nom­i­nees. They are to re­turn next week with more names.

The PNM's pub­lic re­la­tions of­fi­cer Lau­rel Leza­ma-Lee Sing list­ed the end re­sult of screen­ing for sev­er­al seats which was done from Thurs­day af­ter­noon. The ses­sion end­ed af­ter mid­night.

The list giv­en: Field ath­lete Cleopa­tra Borel (PoS South), for­mer crick­et star and cur­rent coach (Mervyn Dil­lon (To­co- Man­zanil­la), Diego Mar­tin Cor­po­ra­tion chair­man Si­mon de No­bre­ga (Diego Mar­tin Cen­tral), Point Fortin may­or Kennedy Richards Jr (Point Fortin), Clif­ford Ramb­harose (Oropouche East).