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By Gus Garcia, Friday, November 20, 2009

In the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet, the fair maiden enquires, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.”

Juliet’s point is well taken, as she poses that immortal question, expressing her love only for Romeo, but none for his Montague family name.

Someone told me recently that Accra Beach on the south coast of Barbados was named after the Ghanaian capital Accra. I like the sound of that and I seriously hope this is the case. Accra Beach is one of my favorite beaches on the island and I have fond memories of my many visits there. It is believed that the Barbadian population is eighty percent descended from Ghanaians, so it would be very appropriate if there’s a little piece of West Africa along the Bajan south coast.

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