Grenada's Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has made it clear to party delegates and supporters that his ruling New National Party (NNP) is in trouble after three terms in government and desperately needs to recapture popular support to remain in office. "The only way to win is to get back some of the people that voted for us in 1999. Get them back," declared Mitchell as he addressed what could possibly have been his party's final convention last week before a national poll. The man who wants to replace him as prime minister, Tillman Thomas, has seen a rise in support for his National Democratic Congress (NDC). NDC prepared "We are prepared. The last time we were prepared, too, but as I have been saying, NNP is in office because of a legal technicality," Thomas said, in reference to a six-vote defeat for the Carriacou and Petit Martinique seat which broke a seven-seat deadlock and decided the last election in 2003. "We are ready whenever the elections are called," Thomas said. With general election on the horizon, the political thermometer is starting to rise in Grenada. The two major parties - and even the smaller ones - have increased their visibility in recent weeks, and there are reports of a public opinion poll being carried out. Full slate NNP has announced a full slate of candidate launches to take place between now and the end of February, while the NDC has been stepping up its public relations profile through a series of community projects. "I have, therefore, decided to lead a moral crusade to rid this country of a corrupt regime that has destroyed the moral fibre of Grenada," declared Pentecostal preacher Karl Hood, who is seeking to dethrone Deputy Prime Minister Gregory Bowen for the St George's South East constituency on an NDC ticket. "I have heard the woes of our people. In the past 12 years I have built up a catalogue of injustice, corruption and unnecessary suffering that our people have underwent. I have decided enough is enough," said Hood, during his campaign launch simulating a revival crusade. Reprinted from jamaica-gleaner.com