Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Kuzvimiririra kwakapihwa musi wa 7 Kukadzi 1974 pasi pehutungamiriri hwaEric Gairy, uyo akazova Mutungamiriri weGrenada wekutanga wenyika ine hurumende. Nyika itsva yakava nhengo yeCommonwealth, naMambokadzi Elizabeth somusoro wenyika. Muna March 1979, sangano reMarxist-Leninist New Jewel Movement rakapidigura hurumende yaGairy mu"coup d'état" isina ropa ndokutanga hurumende yePeople's Revolutionary Government (PRG), ichitungamirirwa naMaurice Bishop saMutungamiriri weHurumende. Bishop akazosungwa ndokuurayiwa nenhengo dzePeople's Revolutionary Army, zvichiita kuti U.S. itungamirirwe neuto rokurwisa
muna October 1983. Chibviro chenguva iyeyo, chitsuwa chacho chakadzokera kuhurumende yeparamende inotungamirirwa navanomiririra uye chakaramba chakagadzikana mune zvematongerwe enyika.