Yeah I Wrote This!

Ya see, I am all for rewarding our athletes; in fact, I believe Tonique Williams deserve to have a street name after her. But, I always wondered why Government always find it fit to change an already established street name/government building’s name to something else.

So dey wan change Harold Road to Tonique Williams’ Way; But what about Mr. Harold and his family? Do they have a say in regards to this change? Who cares right? As no one knows who the hell is Mr. Harold anyway, and why in the first instance, did the government honour him by naming a street after him? But that’s typical Bahamian government policy, being an ‘indian giver.’

Yep, our government is famous for that, honouring someone and insulting them by taking the honour later away. Look at the great TA Thompson, and educator, and T Gibson, the person who wrote the national Anthem. Schools were named after them, and later that honour was strip and given to someone else never to be replaced.

Look at Meeting Street, a street named due to the fact that former slaves used to meet their for rallys and various church organizations used to congregate for whatever reason…Now Meeting Street is Dillets Street…few persons knows that, but who in heaven is Dillet and why couldn’t some new subdivion named after him?

Once, they were trying to change East Street, to Sir Lynden Pingling Drive…the people of East Street cried out, in protest, despite the fact that East Street people loved Sir Lynden…But why did they protest, simply because the East Street and the people who lives there and who have decended from there has a legacy. The name means something to them.

Then they take Sir Stafford of the money…but that’s another story…

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