Both the Esperanza Estate and Bronte Estate would be consolidated into Caroni Limited with their purchase of Gordon Sugar Estates Limited in 1955. Esperanza...

In 1953 JB Fernandes purchased both the Queen’s Park Hotel in Port of Spain and the Great House of the Champs-Élysées Estate in Maraval...

An ordinance that prohibits the the employment of children under the age of twelve is established. Before this, children were employed in weeding, picking...

From January to June of this year, slaves all across the island put down their tools and refused to work unless working conditions were...

Orange Grove Estate, consisting at the time of over 4000 acres was the last estate to be consolidated into Caroni. The machinery at the...

Constructed in south Trinidad by the Colonial Company, this sugar refinery would be the largest in the British Empire and the most efficient on...

Politicians had long been lobbying for Independence, but it would be the Trinidad and Tobago Independence Act of 1962 that finally allows Trinidad and...

The introduction of this product is credited with rum becoming more profitable than bitters for the company. At this time,  the term Old Rum...

In 1904, Alfredo Siegert was appointed purveyor of Angostura aromatic bitters to the King of Prussia, and in 1907 to King Alfonso XIII of...

Already in the business of producing their iconic Aromatic Bitters, and a rum liqueur called Siegert’s Bouquet, the rapidly growing company would build a...