The Ides Of March

Shakespeare’s play Julius Ceasar engrained the assassination of the Roman Emperor in 44 BC into western culture.  The soothsayer had told Caesar: “ Beware of the Ides of March”.  He was warning Caesar of the danger of assassination.  Caesar ignored it.  As he walked to the Senate that morning, he said to the soothsayer ”the Ides of March have come”.  The soothsayer responds: “Aye but not yet gone”. By evening Caesar was dead, stabbed to death by Senators including his friend Brutus. The Ides of March passed last Friday 15 March 2024.  On that day each year for years Zendal Forbes, the lecturer at the University of The Bahamas and Fred Micthell, the Minister exchange the lines from Shakespeare as a marker.  This year was no different.