PNM political leader Pennelope Beckles acknowledged that the party's previous leadership had made mistakes and asked supporters for forgiveness as efforts are now focused on rebuilding the party to unseat the current administration in the next general election.

Beckles made the plea during a political meeting at its Central Regional Office on July 5, the first forum since the new executive was sworn in last week.

"We apologise for whatever wrongs may have been done but we have to move on. We are in opposition. We need to get back into government and we need to remove this dishonest, vindictive and wicked government and we can only do that if we unite together and come together as one."