One year after buying the stock of rum from the burnt treasury building in Port of Spain, JB Fernandes would acquire the Forres Park...

The treasury building that also housed the Government Rum Bond was destroyed by a fire on June 25th, 1932. About 100 years before this,...

The Caroni Rum Distillery has always been described as having been established in 1918. This advertisement from the Trinidad Guardian is not only from...

Manoel Fernandes who arrived in Trinidad from Madeira ten years earlier would establish his blending house on Henry Street, Port of Spain. Here he...

In the post-emancipation period, People of Indian Origin would form the largest population of labourers in the sugarcane industry . The majority of them...

Silestian doctor Johann Siegert perfects his formula for aromatic bitters and begins selling it as Amargo Aromatico in the town now known as Ciudad...

The first two centuries of rum production in the Caribbean were built on the exploitation of people removed from their homeland and forced into...

In 1787, the first sugarmill in Trinidad is constructed in an area northeast of Port of Spain by Picot de la Peyrouse, a French...

Trinidad is captured by the forces of Sir Ralph Abercromby and becomes a British Colony. At this time, there were 159 sugar mills, 60...