Part I - Who is Dr. Sharon S. Smith?
Education Degrees
Most people, upon hearing that Sharon S. Smith has both a B.S. and a M.S. in Education, would think that she was a school teacher. Most would be wrong, because Smith has had a long career as an FBI agent! Everything must be taken in context.
Smith was hired to make a report on Peter Simmons’ phone call which was evidence in the Canadian action. Surprisingly, she was not hired by Simmons! In my next post I’ll reveal who hired her.
In this report she gave her qualifications, and I am providing the first few pages of this here: scv1, scv2, scv3
Dates Degrees Earned
Smith omitted to mention when any of her degrees were awarded. Her paper “Forensic Psycholinguistics” (co-author Dr. Roger Shuy) was published in April 2002. She did not appear to have her Doctorate at the time she wrote this. It is interesting that Dr. Shuy’s degrees are in English, and at that time Smith’s degrees appeared to be restricted to Education. Psycholinguistics implies Psychology and Linguistics, yet Smith appeared to have a degree in neither.
Anomaly
Smith became an expert in an unusual way. In most professions, the accepted procedure is to earn a degree or degrees in your specialization, and then to apply your knowledge as you gain experience. Smith appears to have gained her experience first. Her formal academic qualifications in Psychology are more recent. She lists this: “Ph.D. in Psychology, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, with specialized training in Psycholinguistics.” (I saw no mention of the topic of her thesis.) I called the Psychology Department at Georgetown. Neither of the two individuals I spoke to was aware of any Psychology professor linked with Psycholinguistics, or of any courses taught in that area by the Psychology Department.
I executed a search for the word “psycholinguistics” in the Georgetown catalog over five academic years. I searched all courses, all departments, but I could only find four different courses that even mentioned psycholinguistics in their description. Only one actually had psycholinguistics in the title - LING-271 Introduction to Psycholinguistics. No courses were from the Psychology Department.
Smith may have had “specialized training in Psycholinguistics” at Georgetown, but what was the academic rigour and duration of this training?
Dialect
Of more concern to me than her academic qualifications, is her knowledge of West Indian dialects, or Caribbean dialects as she calls them. I wonder if she knows that Peter Simmons is a Barbadian, as she refers to Jamaican dialect. Jamaica is approximately a thousand miles from Barbados. Why would a Bajan speaking to a Canadian use Jamaican dialect? Smith pointedly omits reference to the Barbadian dialect in her report. Furthermore, there is nothing in Smith’s CV to indicate that she knows the Bajan dialect, yet she does not hesitate to offer an opinion.
My neighbour, who is a Jamaican, was HIGHLY amused at some of Smith’s interpretation of the ‘phone call transcript! Personally, if I wanted to decipher a language, I would try to find someone knowledgeable about that language, and not someone who may have experience in “Psycholinguistics”.
More reading: I did not find much on psycholinguistics on the web, but here is a clip from Forensic Linguistics. Click on it to see the source. Connection? Sharon S. Smith was a spokesperson for the FBI during the Waco standoff.

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By the time one is working on a Ph. D. there is little relevance for coursework. Coursework is preparation for advanced degrees which, by and large, are demonstrations of one’s ability to conduct accurate and appropriate original research. So, don’t bash this person simply because there are no course listings for psycholinguistics. If one is going to trash the person in question then one needs to critically evaluate the quality of the dissertation, but one would need to be a fairly well trained psychologist, or at least a serious senior academician to do this review. Coming from Georgetown it is unlikely that the Ph. D. dissertation is poor as Georgetown has an excellent all-around reputation as a university, it is, in fact, one of the best. Notwithstanding what was just written, I find most psychology to be highly refined and well-stated BS.
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Thewhiterabbit,
Education degrees would probably not make one an expert in Psycholinguistics. In her CV, Smith mentions no prior degrees in Psychology, before her Ph.D. When would she have taken college-level courses related to Psycholinguistics?
The quality of a dissertation from Georgetown would almost certainly be high, no dispute there. But both the topic and the date of the dissertation are missing from the CV.
The Psychology Department at Georgetown University does not appear to have much of a stake in Psycholinguistics.
So, what this boils down to, in fact, is:
A judge in Ontario has had to make a decision as to which is BS - the expert opinion of Nelson Barbados Group’s expert witness - or that of the defendants sued by Nelson (Dr. Sharon S. Smith).
The judge decided to choose the opinion of Dr. Smith.
You object. You think he is wrong. Predictably and as usual.
So why did you not publish the whole judgment. instead of promising to publish these mysterious court documents that you claim are of such great import?
Let us read the decision and see if we agree with you - or with the judge and Dr. Smith?
But no!!!! No, no, no!!!!! That would never do, would it. One must keep the masses in ignorance, otherwise there will be understanding. “Understanding”, dear, a word you know as “anarchy”.
But why to a Holy Roller like you would understanding be a bad thing? A mortal sin?
Let me speculate.
You can find no legitimate grounds of appealing this judge’s decision. It is correct and unassailable in law. Ergo, as the judge has not misdirected himself, there are no grounds to grant leave to appeal. And you cannot now introduce new evidence, unless…..
You can manufacture grounds by attempting to cast doubts on the declared qualifications of the defendants’ expert, Dr. Smith.
Because, if she has been less than frank in stating her qualifications, this MIGHT provide grounds for the judge to give you leave to appeal his decision.
And if the judge refuses leave, you will seek to use this issue as grounds for your appeal to the Ontario Court of Appeal and to introduce more “evidence”.
But why do you not simply publish the judge’s decision in the motion that Dr. Smith has opined on and let us make our own determination on whether or not we agree with you or the judge? We can think for ourselves, you know. Heavens, these days some of us can even read. Imagine that.
Instead, you now intend to publish a whole box of court documents and then inflict on us illiterates of limited perception and intelligence, your superior interpretation of what they mean.
Straws, my dear, straws - and you are clutching at them.
Man these people are jokers. They lost their court case in Barbados. They lost at the Privy Council in London and now Allard trying the court in Ontario. Whoop-de-doo! He lost there too from the looks of Black Woman Who Read’s post.
Why you all don’t tell the truth - that her brothers and nephew decided to opt for a different buyer than her choice of Allard.
Wait she aint get none of the money when the property was sold.
The main point here is that this whole thing started as a family feud - not to mention the original sale of the land was to really get certain members of said family out of hugh gambling and other debts.
Most Barbadians are well aware of that and think it should have been resolved long ago within the family circle but it all got out of hand. Now the whole thing has got turned around and blown out of proportion.
Why not target the real people who started the whole mess in the first place - your own family.
There will be a lot more court information featured here in the next few weeks - your patience will be rewarded.
Mr. Brooks - in a way, you’re family too. But this stopped being about “family” a VERY long time ago.
Maybe that is true but it still does not absolve you from not telling the ‘whole’ story and by that I mean the ‘whole’ TRUTH. i.e. start from the beginning - 1970/80’s … (if I missed it please direct me to the relavant link).
… and somewhere along the way you can ask your friends at BFP, who are ‘using’ you and your story line to gather more hits on their site - why they banned me some months ago - long before I got onto this topic - ask them and tell me what you were told and I will give my side, and then you can see who is for ‘free’ press (opinion) and the truth. I guarantee it ain’t BFP and on top of that they have been lead down the lane too.
This matter, as I gather, transends all strata of Barbadian society, but when all is said and done it still all started as a relatively simple family business matter - as in it was no national issue - but has now become so because of the issues and players involved and what they did or did not do on a moral level.
Do not worry, all parties are being monitored and justice will prevail one way or the other. It is just that some people fail to remember that ‘day does run till night catches it’.
By the way, stop promising ‘more court information’ in the next few weeks, we have already been frustrated by this approach by the DLP here and their 100 days promises. When you have something then produce it, don’t play that game, please.
“Black Woman Who Reads” sounds like a legal minded person, maybe even a professional like a lawyer or even a judge. Hmmm, …
But I agree lets see the documents or court transcripts. All of them.
David - I AM telling the whole story. The problem is that you are impatient. The recent court matters will take me at least a few weeks to complete, but there will be periodic releases as the information is checked and rechecked for accuracy. I have always tried to maintain the highest standards of accuracy in my statements. If you have a problem with a particular statement let me know.
Public figures have been involved from very early on, as mentioned on this blog - example SBG, Classic, etc. The entire story from the 1970’s/1980’s would take years to publish and I have a day job, but I have definitely started working on the book!
I don’t know anything about the people at BFP, but they seem to have an excellent understanding of the situation in Barbados.
I am surprised that you are taking such a keen interest in this matter, but I welcome your comments as long as they are informative and polite. If you have information that you think I may not have, please let me know.
I’m not the only one who is impatient, as you put it, there are lots out there that want to hear/see it too - check said same BFP who have been snipping your articles and using them to get milage on their blog.
With regard to the BFP having an excellent understanding of the situation in Barbados, I would have to remind you that such a thing can still be skued depending on your experience and agenda. They accuse the local media houses of lack of Professional Journalism all the time but have not the foggiest idea what that means. Beware.
That’s where my interest comes from, outside of the obvious to learn or find out things and concern for certain matters personal or otherwise, but to see balance and that is where you will see my wraith if I find out that a story is being twisted to serve an overt purpose.
I firmly believe in “the WHOLE truth and nothing but the truth” - note my emphasis. I may not be perfect but that’s my objective - balance. If along the way I drop a comment or two that you don’t like, well then you can ban me too, but then I would have to insist that you take the ‘truth’ out of Keltruth, like I think the ‘Free’ should be taken out of Barbados Free Press (BFP).
The problem in Barbados (and the whole world) is that we tend to keep our mouth’s shut until its too late. Some don’t vote yet they complain - I don’t have time for hypocrites (well, actually I do, I think they are ‘fair game’ when I’m in the mood). If you check the records over the years you will see that I do speak out when I feel the need to.
I’ll check back in a few weeks as I don’t always be lurking around these parts too much - I tend to give it break every few weeks or else my BP will soar too much.
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