Citing housing and education as major campaign issues Donte Hunt was rolled out by the United Bermuda Party as its candidate for St. George’s South yesterday.

The seat was won by Government MP Renee Webb in 2003 by just eight votes. She has since announced her retirement and the PLP have yet to pick a new candidate ahead of an election expected this summer.

Mr. Hunt, a 29-year-old father of two, has worked as the National Director of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards and as a missionary working abroad.

He said: “If not for the assistance of my family, I would be living the Bermuda nightmare, which is to be young, hard-working, raising a family, with no chance to own my own home. We need public representatives who are going to fight hard to change that reality.”

And he said education reform was a top priority.

Mr. Hunt joined the UBP because of its vision of a united Bermuda.

He said: “It hurts me to the core when I see racial disharmony. I have so many people dear to me — friends of all racial backgrounds — and to think of them being discriminated against on the basis of their colour is something we must all fight.”

Donte is the second son of Allan and Mildred Hunt. He was schooled at Francis Patton, the Berkeley Institute, Bermuda College and North Carolina State University where he earned a BA in Business Administration.

Donte later attended Tyndale College and Seminary in Toronto, Ontario where he earned an MA in theology.

He is married to Kelly Hunt and the couple has two young daughters, Annalise and Laylah.