People's Revolutionary Government

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The People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) and connected PRA (...Army) was the name given to the more hardline faction of the Newel Jewel Movement in Grenada in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The Newel Jewel Movement (NJM) took power in 1979 from the Gairy regime, which had ruled in an outwardly democratic, but authoritarian way since independence in 1974.

The NJM ruled from 1979 to 1983. In 1983 these hardline elements within the movement under the leadership of Bernard Coard seized control, seeing Bishop as too moderate. Bishop and many other leaders were executed and the new government became known as the PRG. They ruled for only days before the US led invasion of Grenada ousted them and brought democracy to the country.

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