Daily Archives: Oct 20, 2018

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct 20, CMC – The Guyana government maintains it will not sanction the new increases in the toll as announced by the...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 20, CMC – China is providing a US$36.1 million loan to Jamaica for the construction of the Western Children’s Hospital in...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Oct 20, CMC – A two-day workshop on strengthening drug treatment courts will take place in the Dominican Republic from Monday, according...

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Oct 20, CMC – The Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) is expressing support for the government’s move to ban single-use plastic...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Oct 20, CMC – President of the Trinidad-based Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), Justice Adrian Saunders, says after 50 years of political...

The police are probing what appears to be a murder suicide following the discovery of the bodies of two adults who had reportedly not been seen or heard from by relatives since Tuesday.

The first ever 3x3 female national Under-18 basketball team, the Lady Pitbulls, are confident of their chances in a successful run in the International Basketball Foundation (IBF) Antilles 3X3 Hoops Championships.

Defending champions, Antigua and Barbuda Transport Board (ABTB) handed Kennedys their first loss of the 2018 edition of the Cool and Smooth Antigua and Barbuda Basketball Association (ABBA) Business league.

President of the Antigua and Barbuda Warri Association (ABWA), Joel Carr, has confirmed that the organisation is not yet affiliated to its international body, the International Oware Players Association (IOPA).

The title of today’s piece is an English translation of a line from Virgil’s AENEID. The original Latin reads, “Timeo danaos et dona ferentes” or “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts!” A more actual translation is, “I fear the Greeks, even those bearing gifts!” For those not so familiar with Greek literature, here is a synopsis of the story of a people who blithely accepted a gift, notwithstanding words of warning. According to Virgil, the Greeks were intent on capturing the prized city of Troy. Since they could not breach the formidable walls of the city by military force, they decided to resort to subterfuge. They built a huge, hollow, wooden horse, filled it with top military personnel and presented it, with much fanfare (signing ceremony, Memorandum of Understanding and the usual sweet-sounding speeches), to the fawning and gullible people of Troy.  Of course, there were some Trojans, like Laocoon and Cassandra, who urged caution in the accepting of the gift. But the Trojan leaders were giddy and reckless (perhaps greedy and desperate, as well), and they refused to hearken. The rest is history: that night, the Greek soldiers inside the horse came out and opened the gates of Troy to the waiting Greek army.