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Pandora Gibson

Bahamian comedian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ7130726 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pandora Gibson-Gomez (born 21 June 1941 - c. 1988) was a Bahamian comedian and storyteller known for her imitation of the Eleuthera dialect.

Early life and career

Gibson was born Pandora Iona Bethel in Eleuthera in June 1941 to Leopold and Naomi (née Farrington) Bethel. Her father died later that year in November 1941 and her mother later remarried.

She was an actor and performer for concerts and shows. She was also deputy headmistress at Queen's College, Nassau.

Death and legacy

She died at the age of 47. The Pandora Gibson-Gomez Award for Excellence in Drama is named for her.

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“Pandora Gibson” enters the record as bahamian comedian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pandora, Gibson and Bahamian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pandora Gibson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.