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What’s in a name? Does it matter how we name people or how we describe ourselves? This famous quote ‘what’s in a name?’ comes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when Juliet wishes that her lover didn’t have his family name. She suggests that the label shouldn’t matter, saying ‘That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.’ Yet names do shape how we see people. Since moving to Grenada, I have been exploring its history and of course this includes the horr