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Melky Jean's vision crafts Saint Sauveur Rum, celebrating Haitian legacy and empowering the diaspora during Haitian Heritage Month.
When pirates roamed the high seas, rum put the "yo-ho-ho” in a bottle. Around 1900, it featured in the Cuba Libre—originally ...
In a heartfelt initiative that spans the 2025 calendar, Barbados is extending an open invitation for its diaspora and ...
Picking season is fully underway at a 26-hectare tea plantation near Poyang Lake, China's largest freshwater lake. The once-barren hills have been transformed into lush tea fields. #China #tea ...
½ of the Contented Retreat plantation of 191 acres. The land was valued @ £72 per acre; there were 73 enslaved on the estate, Barbados Department of Archives. Hughes-Queree Index of Plantations.
Finishing whiskey is a time-honored tradition. It’s an almost essential tool in every whiskey-producing region’s toolbox, capable of incredibly transforming the base spirit. While several ...
Catch the live action of the West Indies Championship 2025 as Leeward Islands Hurricanes take on Barbados Pride at the Sir Frank Worrell Memorial Ground, St Augustine.
The main topic was “Zero-Carbon Island Cooperation”. Sandra Payne, the Deputy CEO of Invest Barbados, said this was the first formal meeting between Invest Barbados and business leaders from Yantai.
Tucked away on a historical plantation, this quiet pond held more than just still water. Using a 1500lb magnet, I pulled up pieces of old farm equipment long lost to time. Every find told part of ...
I stop on the path to watch a Barbados green monkey sitting on its ... Doyle is looking to transform an old plantation house at East into a cafe – this could be the perfect occasion to gently ...
Dripping in three centuries of history, with some dark periods in the rum distiller’s legacy, Mount Gay was (ironically) originally owned by John Sober in the 1700s. Known as the Oxford plantation, in ...