Hamlet Mark, who is based in Miami, refers to the group as the “triumvirate.” He has written that the group includes NDC leader and prime minister of Grenada, Tillman Thomas; NDC deputy leader and finance minister Nazim Burke; and former NDC chairman and minister of information and national mobilization, Glen Noel.

“For this past week, I have been quietly following reports from Grenada that some members of the ‘triumvirate’, in cahoots with others, are on a specific trajectory to politically destroy some of their own,” Mark writes in his latest internet blog, titled “The politics of destruction has begun.”

“There has been a strong suspicion that the phones of some members of cabinet have been bugged,” Mark added. “The evidence has largely been circumstantial – and so I have never written about it, since I was quietly digging deeper for a few weeks now. But the writing is on the wall, when it became clear last week that a specific request had gone out to the FIU – Financial Intelligence Unit – directing that they demand the phone records of a very senior government official. And I mean very senior.”

Mark, who campaigned for the NDC in its run to victory in the 2008 general elections, claims “that a clique in this government has embarked on the politics of destruction. The Glen Noel-led Tillman Thomas wing of the NDC has declared a scorched earth policy.”

Members of the clique, he says, “are satisfied that they cannot win the next election on their own – and nobody else will stand to win it, which makes the prime minister – without him realizing – being the biggest agent for the return of Keith Mitchell.”