And the former party leader feels the same way - even as his son Shyne Barrow continues to cling to leadership. He lamented the fall of the party that held the seat of power for three terms. He explained that he's tried to intervene, but now, as he puts it, it's more than his soul can bear.

Dean Barrow, Former Prime Minister
"Well, it seems I'm not able to do much, if anything at all. And I say this because I've tried. I won't get into the details, but I have a since the elections and especially most laterally, given that the acting chairman of the party has at long last fixed a date for a national party council. I've been trying to work with Alberto and with others regarding how the NPC ought to be constituted for the purposes of this meeting, which I believe is to take place next Saturday. I have not been successful. I would leave it at that, except to say, to take up your refrain, it is a monumental tragedy, not just for the UDP, but for democracy, for the country. It cannot be a good thing. And indeed it is an outrage that the UDP should be so completely beset by stasis, by some kind of paralytic which is over their own administration, and there's blame enough to go around, so I won't, I'll refrain from pointing fingers, to the extent where they are absolutely of no use. Hopeless in terms of performing the function that an opposition ought to perform. Forget the fact that, as a matter of fairly recent history, the UDP was, marked itself as a force that history will have to take serious note of. To go from that five short years ago to this current situation is, as I said, it's it's almost more than a man's soul can bear."