Grenada election

By Peter Richards

ST GEORGE'S, Grenada, CMC

– When they go to the polling stations on Tuesday, Grenadians will have the opportunity of either sticking to the path the Spice Isle has travelled for the past 13 years or following the winds of change that have swept aside many incumbent governments in the Caribbean over the past 18 months.

Keith Mitchell, the 62-year-old Howard University-trained mathematician is seeking to get his figures correct on July 8 when he leads his ruling New National Party (NNP) into the general election hoping to secure an unprecedented fourth consecutive term in office.

But standing in his way is 63-year-old Tillman Thomas - the University of the West Indies (UWI)-trained lawyer and leader of the main opposition National Democratic Party (NDP), who in 1981 was detained by the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) when Grenada re-wrote its history by becoming the first English-speaking Caribbean country to have changed a government by the bullet rather than the ballot.

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