Chester Sam­bra­no

Ahloy Hunt says he and his broth­er Gary still love and re­spect each oth­er, even as he (Ahloy) pre­pares to con­test the St Joseph seat in the forth­com­ing gen­er­al elec­tions for the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress.

"I love my broth­er and my broth­er loves me and we are still close to­geth­er," Hunt said yes­ter­day, one day af­ter be­ing an­nounced as the UNC's can­di­date.

Hunt said he and Gary, a for­mer Min­is­ter of Sport un­der the Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment, still have a close bond.

"We're both adults and pro­fes­sion­als and we re­spect each oth­ers' de­ci­sion," Ahloy told Guardian Me­dia in a tele­phone in­ter­view.

He said he de­cid­ed to join the UNC af­ter look­ing at how the coun­try was be­ing man­aged by the cur­rent PNM Gov­ern­ment.

"It seemed as though a small per­cent­age of the coun­try was en­joy­ing the wealth and it was not be­ing dis­trib­uted eq­ui­tably," Hunt said.

The as­pir­ing MP said he has a lot to of­fer the coun­try now as a politi­cian based on his ex­pe­ri­ence, ca­pa­bil­i­ties, ex­per­tise and knowl­edge in se­cu­ri­ty and man­age­ment. He said for him the time was al­so right.

"I have so much tal­ent and I need to give back to the peo­ple of this coun­try," he said.

He said St Joseph is a con­stituen­cy he is very fa­mil­iar with, hav­ing grown and lived in neigh­bour­ing St Au­gus­tine.

"So I am go­ing up for a con­stituen­cy that is dear to my heart and close to home."

Hunt said he al­so doesn't think much of the in­cum­bent PNM MP Ter­rence Deyals­ingh.

"He's re­al­ly an ab­sen­tee rep­re­sen­ta­tive," he said.

He said the peo­ple in the area "lack prop­er rep­re­sen­ta­tion" and Deyals­ingh "on­ly makes it eas­i­er for me."

Hunt, 55, said he was grate­ful for the op­por­tu­ni­ty to serve and trust put in him by UNC leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

Hunt, a lieu­tenant colonel, is now on the se­cu­ri­ty team at the Trinidad Gen­er­a­tion Un­lim­it­ed (TGU). Ac­cord­ing to his bio, he has over 30 years’ ex­pe­ri­ence in se­cu­ri­ty at the high­est lev­els in both na­tion­al se­cu­ri­ty and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­i­ment (TTR).