A day af­ter the elec­tion bell rang, prospec­tive can­di­dates in the Diego Mar­tin West con­stituen­cy, for both the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) and Na­tion­al Trans­for­ma­tion Al­liance (NTA), pound­ed the pave­ments, walk­ing and meet­ing res­i­dents in the area.

While NTA’s Mar­sha Walk­er said she has been hit­ting the ground since 2019, new­com­er, the PNM’s Hans des Vi­gnes, said yes­ter­day’s walk­a­bout at Up­per Haid Street was not his first.

Guardian Me­dia caught des Vi­gnes at St Nicholas Street on his meet and greet. Walk­ing through the con­nect­ing streets of Vine­yard, Jones and Abbe Pou­jade, des Vi­gnes and his team heard there were not enough youth-fo­cused pro­grammes to keep them off the wrong path.