Who, if anyone, is advising Duane Sands in his public utterances? He has absolutely zero political acumen and it is downright embarrassing.

Loretta, until you have the integrity and propriety to declare to your delegates and then to the country what you plan to contest at your party's upcoming convention just weeks away, how about you be quiet on the convention altogether? And is anyone else sick and tired of Butler-Turner always playing the victim role? "I wasn't invited"; "they dont like me"; "they are trying to kill me". Enough! There are no words for these FNMs.

The Tribune behaves more like a tabloid than a credible newspaper these days unfortunately. They all do.

The FNM as we have known it is finished. This thing that exists now called the FNM is of no use to the Bahamian people whatsoever.

Wow. There are no words for these FNMs. The Bahamas is in for even darker days ahead.

And Tribune, please do a better job at editing; your story switches from Key's name to calling him Mr. Sweeting - different white guy from South Abaco!

Everywhere China goes in our tourism industry, damage happens. But what does it matter to our nation's politicians? They are getting paid, so to hell with everything else.

Exactly. Wells talks about the phantom UBP running the FNM. Well let him take his millions and rescue the FNM from the hands of the great white ghosts.

> The white knights have stopped their financial support because they do not want Minnis as leader.

And if Minnis and Co. truly saw this as a problem, then why do they keep going to these men for money? Why don't they use their own money? That's the question that needs to be asked of them. Minnis wants their money but doesn't want them to have a say. Nobody funds political parties to the tune of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars because they have nothing better to do with their money. He who holds the gold makes the rules. Minnis has gold; alot of it if his disclosures are to be believed. So what is Minnis calling Symonette for? Let him reach in his pocket and fund his so-called push for the poor man if he believes in that so much. But he doesn't. He is a fraud of the highest order. He has been behaving in this manner since he became leader; this did not start with this upcoming convention. He won't give his party a dime, but wants to be king on the throne that party has given him. Conventions are not just about the leadership race as that is not the only race or measure that is on the floor of a national convention. Conventions are foundational to democratic parties. But Minnis is not a democrat by any stretch of the imagination.

> Former FNM Cabinet minister Tennyson Wells is among those who have sided with party leader Dr Hubert Minnis. He told The Tribune that those who fought for an early convention should find the funds to host it.

This lowlife Wells is well aware that only the party's council can decide to hold a convention. Regardless of what those 6 MPs wanted, if the council voted no, then no it would be. The party's highest body has voted for this convention but the leader of the party does not want to ensure that the convention is funded and carried out, all because it does not suit his personal wishes and purposes. Yet he is bribing delegates left, right and center with taxpayer dollars funneled to him by PLP Ministers. Bahamas, take a good look at what wants to replace the PLP - a red replica of the PLP in the person of Hubert Minnis.

Why doesn't Minnis and his group reach into their pockets and fund their own party for once? They tear people like Symonette to shreds but they want his millions and make demands on his cash as though it belongs to them. Since they have such a problem with white Bahamians, then get out of their pockets. Since Minnis is for the darker hue as his Facebook page once said, then let them all gather together and take their party from the elites (aka white people) and pump the millions in necessary to keep their party going. **That's** what's called putting your money where your mouth is, just as the white Bahamians who they trash have been doing in the FNM for decades. It is a damned disgrace that Minnis has turned the FNM into a race-baiting organization, but since he has chosen to do so, let him, Bobo, Toogie and all his minions fund "the people's party." He also expected Brent to fund the November convention had it remained at November because again, he had no intention of investing anything into the party he wants to take him all the way to the office of Prime Minister. Yet this is the man who his minions worship - a man who only wants the party for what it can do for him, but not the other way around. That is exactly the kind of Prime Minister he would be should this country suffer the gross misfortune of such a thing.