Above: Grenada Opposition Leader Keith Mitchell and Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie (BIS Photo/Peter Ramsay)

By the Caribbean Journal staff

Grenada Opposition Leader Dr Keith Mitchell recently paid a courtesy call on Bahamian Prime Minister Perry Christie in Nassau.

Mitchell, who served as Grenada’s Prime Minister from 1995 to 2008, made the visit to Christie’s Cable Beach office.

Christie has been Prime Minister since his Progressive Liberal Party ousted the Free National Movement in a landslide victory in the Bahamas’ May 7 national election.

The PLP’s was the latest in a wave of electoral victories by opposition parties in national elections, including in St Lucia and Jamaica.

Mitchell leads Grenada’s New National Party.