EDITOR, The Tribune.

The Graduate and his groupies were once and are journalists who are lazy, indisciplined and always lived off others by receiving handouts and payments from the public purse and have been sucking up to power and/or perceived power all their lives.

The Graduate, his groupies and Zhivargo Laing (Focus) have attacked Tennyson Wells but their attacks have no basis in fact or truth as I will prove below.

You have never seen in the press/media at any time where Tennyson Wells made donations to charities and others, but he has been making multiple donations of thousands of dollars annually and does not relish writing this response, however, your readers and the country ought to have the facts and the truth in order to make a comparative or reasonable judgment as to who has contributed and is contributing more to the development of our society and our country. Let The Graduate and Front Porch Simon reveal him/themselves and let the public measure each of us. Let the public make their decision based on the facts as to who have ulterior motives – Tennyson Wells who signs his name or The Graduate who hides under the cover of darkness and false names.

Tennyson Wells is the son of two successful farmers who encouraged him to get an education and inculcated in him the principles of hard work, fairness, honesty and integrity. Tennyson is proud to have raised all his children without having to resort, as some have done, to making them wards of the state or abandoning them to relatives and friends in abject neglect of parental responsibility and obligations.

Further, Tennyson has never been an unapologetic sucker on the teat of friends and organisations milking them shamelessly without making any real contributions over scores of years.

Over the last forty years, Tennyson Wells as the head of his family along with his dear wife and children has built up or with others assisted in building up enterprises which ensures that hundreds, yes hundreds of Bahamians take home a paycheck - and not a minimum wage paycheck either - every week or every two weeks – What say The Graduate and Front Porch Simon?

Tennyson Wells contributes regularly food, water and money in the thousands of dollars to many charities and the poor weekly, monthly and annually.

Over the years, Tennyson Wells has conceived, commissioned and has been involved in the development of many subdivisions in New Providence, has developed and built hundreds of dwelling homes and assisted many families in getting roofs over their heads – Can The Graduate or Front Porch Simon or Focus compare? Tennyson Wells has and have business associates and friends black and white - Yes Zhivargo Laing (Focus) – some from the Eastern Road and elsewhere who I have been and still is in business with him for decades – and you know what they are all wonderful black and white people who pull themselves up by their hard work and integrity.  Yes, we all like to earn money and we put it to good use in building up our society, country and humanity at large. We are not only takers we give back – What have The Graduate, Front Porch Simon given back other than their poison and putrid pen?

When the FNM had to leave its headquarters on Mackey Street and Chesapeake Road in 1986/87, Tennyson Wells provided and financed the national headquarters and offices for the FNM and paid its utilities bills from 1986 to 1991 - five years.  

The Graduate, in spite of some of the positions you have held many, I say many people believe that our society and country was not well served by you, you were not and is not a good example for your and their children.

Just a word of advice to Zhivargo Laing (Focus) who I still believe has some promise if he can only be consistent in his philosophy/opinions/actions and control his ever changing vocations/calling and ambitions.

The same way you did not listen to those street people who told you what was going to happen in 2002 and 2012 and you were proven wrong will happen again to you in 2016/2017. God’s willing Dr Minnis’ success internally within the FNM and the country over the coming years will prove you wrong again. For once in your life stop kow-towing to the whims and fancies of others and try to write commentaries based on facts and truth, and not on fiction and what you want the facts to be – you are entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts - facts are facts - 49 per cent can never be the same as 51 per cent no matter how many times you say it. You will do well to try and develop better judgments based on facts.

TENNYSON R G WELLS

Nassau,

June, 2016.