He was a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Food Production, Marine Exploitation, Forestry and the Environment (1987–1988) and the Minister of External Affairs and International Trade (1988–1991).

[4] In the 1980s, Shand hosted a youth-focused talk show called Feedback on Trinidad and Tobago Television.

[6] The newly-founded NAR became the first opposition party to win a national parliamentary election since independence in 1962.

He was initially appointed a Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Food Production, Marine Exploitation, Forestry and the Environment.

[4] Together with Sylvia Kacal and other conservationists, he founded the Caribbean Forest Conservation Association (CFCA) in 1988.

During a 1999 sit-in, builders attempting to pave over a section of the park dumped a truckload of gravel on Shand.

[4] He opposed a 2006 government proposal to build a stadium at the park,[14] and exposed other cases where construction projects had been approved without securing environmental assessments.