PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - BY the time you read this column, the official results of yesterday's general election in Grenada should have been publicly declared. Grenadian voters had trekked to polling stations aware that, according to forecasts by credible pollsters, the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) of Prime Minister Tillman Thomas was facing defeat by former prime minister Keith Mitchell's New National Party (NNP). Indeed, if the predictions of the more notable pollsters prove correct — as expected — then a change in government should also take place in Barbados by Friday following tomorrow's general election with a return to power by former prime minister Owen Arthur's Labour Party (BLP)

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Former Barbadian Prime Minister, Owen Arthur (left) giving the keynote address on Thursday, July 16, at the Partnership for Jamaica retreat, chaired by Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, at the Terra Nova Hotel. Listening closely is

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