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DESPITE losing her brother the night before, Pennelope Beckles showed up on July 5 to speak at her first political meeting since being sworn in as PNM political leader.

Held at the party's Central Regional Office in Enterprise, the meeting opened with a moment of silence for Preston Beckles, 51.

Second to the stage, Senator Faris Al-Rawi said the newly installed PNM executive was in a meeting at the party's Balisier House headquarters when Beckles received the news of her brother's passing.