Stakeholders in the local rum industry are happy that this year’s sugar harvest is gearing up for an early start. Managing Director of the Barbados-based West Indies Rum Distillery (WIRD) Andrew Hassell said this augurs well for the spirits sector which uses 100 per cent cane product that includes raw cane juice, white or brown cane sugar, cane syrup, evaporated cane sugar and cane molasses.“That’s exciting and they are saying that they are expecting a good crop, a 30 per cent increase. That’s great and West Indies Rum’s whole mission is about sustainability. The gentleman who owns the distillery takes no dividends, no profit share, no management fees, no salary, nothing. He is putting everything back into trying to help create a sustainable field-to-bottle model, where the value-added agricultural product is in a bottle,” Hassell said in an interview with Barbados TODAY.
Guyanese Producers are challenging a request by the Caribbean Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) to increase the taxes on imported glass packaging from outside of the region which could result in a possible increase in prices for all glass bottled pr
Faraday West Indies Rum, a new blended rum that recently won a gold medal at the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition, is proud to announce its launch in select markets including New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky. Faraday, which celebrates the diversity of the Caribbean, is also available for purchase online at faradayrum.com.
Dr. Yesu Persaud, one of the most influential people in the Caribbean rum industry over the past 60 years, has died at the age of 93. As the Chairman of…