Bahamas Issues: Responding to my own post regarding Koed Smith post
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Originally Posted by canewry
Koed Smith: “I am the fifth of six children born to David and Eddlene Smith, nee Bonaby who were married on the 6th Jaunuary 1958.”
Interesting fact, I shall comment on that later on. According to the Nassau Guardian, Mr. Smith says, ‘his mother was born in Church Grove, Crooked Island and his father was born in Larimers, Middle Caicos, of the Turks and Caicos Islands.’ |
Even though, I hate quoting myself, there are times when it is necessary. In the above post for instance, I had promised to elaborate on one or two particular points, just for entertainment. Sorry, if I offend anyone; however, blame, Ms. Nicolette Bethel as below will be excerpts came from her article on Immigration, February 25, 2005. One must read the entire article to understand her point. Nevertheless, I just cut this out to serve my point.
So Mr. Smith’s mother named was Bonaby. I know a number of them. A good Bahamian family, who have been very productive to the development of the Bahamas. But let’s see what Ms. Bethel had to say about the origion of the name: “There are plenty of immigrants pretending to be Bahamians, who have passports and everything. Let’s round ‘em all up, shall we? Charter a boat (why worry with a plane?) and send ‘em back off to Haiti where they all came from. Let’s start with the Poitiers, the Moncurs, the Benebys, the Bonabys, the Bonamys, the Godets, the Symonettes, the Dillets, the Darvilles, the Deveaux, the Deleveaux, the Demerittes, the Delamores. Why leave out the Morees, the Romers, the Virgils, the Sargents, or the Scavellas? They trace their roots to Haiti too. And let’s not be fooled by innocent-sounding names like Armbrister or Solomon or Bain or Benjamin or Fountain — they’ll be found in a Haitian phone book if we look hard enough.”
Now, let us consider Crooked Island….now I personally, decended from Acklins, so I guess I may be included in this list too. But for entertainment value, lets see what Nicolette Bethel had to say: “In fact, when we start looking, we’re gonna find that more than half the people who come from the southern Bahamas, from Cat and Long and Crooked and Ragged Islands, from Acklins and Inagua and Mayaguana and Exuma, are gonna have some connection with, to, or in Haiti.”
My point here being, it seems as if the more Mr. Smith tries to dig himself out of a so called hole, the more he sinks into it.
