Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les has be­gun ful­fill­ing a pledge made dur­ing the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment’s (PNM) con­ven­tion in June to host reg­u­lar pub­lic days aimed at re­con­nect­ing with cit­i­zens.

On Mon­day, Beck­les held her first pub­lic meet­ing at the PNM’s head­quar­ters, Bal­isi­er House, where she met with 17 peo­ple, Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands.

It fol­lowed her in­au­gur­al pub­lic day last week at the Of­fice of the Op­po­si­tion Leader on Charles Street, Port-of-Spain.

In a state­ment on its of­fi­cial Face­book page, the PNM said the ini­tia­tive “un­der­scores her com­mit­ment to be­ing on the ground, lis­ten­ing to cit­i­zens, and fos­ter­ing mean­ing­ful re­la­tion­ships with the peo­ple of Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The par­ty al­so en­cour­aged mem­bers of the pub­lic to book ap­point­ments through the Bal­isi­er House Sec­re­tari­at.

Beck­les, who was in­stalled as po­lit­i­cal leader on June 29, had promised at the con­ven­tion to stage pub­lic days not on­ly in Port-of-Spain but al­so in To­ba­go and San Fer­nan­do.