If I were a betting man, I would bet on Atlantis. They have the marketing smarts that the Chinese have demonstrated not to have.

Instead of using the hashtag #ComingToKickButt she should say #ReadyToSlapFace. She has to learn that a sharp tongue is no indication of a keen mind.

So how does Graeme Davis feel about operating a stolen property? No moral or ethical compass, eh?

I would like him to open his books to see where the union dues went.

Poor Little Edison. And he is little. Met him at a fancy restaurant in the West once. Tiny guy. I towered over him. The FNM put him out to pasture, and now he has sour grapes. There are a a few thousand acres of crown land that I want to talk to him about. He rightly didn't deserve a ratification. So he swam back to the vomit like someone else. The PLP collect the dregs, the rapists, the criminals, tiefs, the wife beaters, the crackpots, the dumb phocques, the sphincter-enlargers, the lawyer cheats -- all of the stellar elements of Bahamian society, and not a patriot one of them. All fer me, baby.

The most important positive is already stated -- enlightenment. But even they have their blemishes -- look how they treated the Indians. The human condition .... not very altruistic.

Nah .. it's just a ... je ne sais quoi ... I am not a believer in God, Queen and especially Country, but I wish that I could be. The Zimbabwe and South African police have a similar motto: Pro rege, pro patria, pro lege -- For King, For Country, For Law. And I suppose that believing in God, Queen and Country worked for awhile, but it doesn't now. They worked in the age of innocence, but they don't work now.

We are past the age of innocence. We have eaten the forbidden fruit of personal and intellectual freedom and tasted exquisite fruits of chasing the American Dream and Mammon.

But what I do admire about the Canadians choosing a Black refugee as a Governor General is the enlightenment, sense of fair play and the egalitarianism that it exemplifies. It is the equivalent of this scenario: Do you remember the Japanese guy who lost all of his money at the casino, was thrown in Fox Hill Prison and forgotten for ten years? He worked as a parking lot attendant once he got out. Suppose someone in the Bahamas tried to make him the governor general. Do you think that we are enlightened enough to do so?

Yes. I am reminded of the occasion when I once was visiting a Canadian bank, and we took the train from Toronto to Ottawa, and we actually attended a Bahamian Independence celebration with the Bahamian High Commissioner. (I believe that a regular poster here made some of the food.) We were then taken to the grounds of Rideau Hall, where the Canadian Governor General was, and to my astonishment, she was the one of the sexiest, graceful, beautiful, intelligent Black women that I have ever met -- Michaëlle Jean. She was a Haitian refugee that emigrated to Canada and rose to be Governor General. After all, Pindling was a Jamaican-born.

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Ummm ... Fred Smith's ancestor is from Eleuthera -- his family has been in the Bahamas since 1648. He comes from the Simms line. 150 years ago, William Simms had a daughter Arabella, and she was his great great grandmother. Fred Smith’s father, born in Nicholls Town, Andros, was Frederick (Freddie) Charles Smith, Freddie’s older brother was Wilfred (Pemmy), who had a crawfish import-export business on Prince George Wharf, and their only sister, Mrs Mary Doris Stevenson, was an accomplished interior decorator, who operated “Interiors”. He is part of the Smith, Knowles, Cartwright, Deal and Bowe families. Drug-running PLP George is his second cousin.

Fred Smith’s father, Freddie, operated a mailboat between Nassau and Gonaive Haiti, where he traded with Izaac Richards (Arabic name Ghiscian), and befriended his daughter, Julia Richards. Julia was born in Madaba, Jordan, the Christian capital for Middle East Catholics. Her father was a Bedoin and her mother Armenian. They married.

They had four children — Norma, Gladys, Joyce and after a few years Fred Smith, QC. The four children were born in Port-au-Prince and registered with the British consulate as citizens of Great Britain and her colonies. They became Bahamian citizens — as did all of us — on July 10, 1973.

So oooo oooo ............... .... back to ... you were sayin' ?

I would apply but my qualifications are suspect. I een a disbarred lawyer, my English is to much gooder, I een a church-goer, gats too much broughtupsy (cept fer politicians who so fat dat dems could sell shade -y'all know who), I'm too dark-skinned-ya need a red fer dat, and I really doan give a dam bout tings 'n tings.