The quantity of sugarcane delivered to factories for milling dipped to a 17-month low of 398,910 tonnes in April 2025, ...

Belize Prime Minister John Briceño says this year’s sugar crop will be one of the worst in recent years after the Fusarium ...

Go to section: British- and Jamaican-style rum | French-style rum | Spanish-style rum | Portuguese- and Brazilian-style rum | Spiced rum The most basic international definition of rum is a spirit that ...

Sugar production decreased from 515 thousand tonnes in 1965 to 186 thousand tonnes in 1984 to 48 thousand tonnes in 2022. Two mills remain in Jamaica, both making raw sugar.

Recently, The Guardian revealed its links to slavery and the cane fields – but less well-known is The Sydney Morning Herald’s links to sugar and the slave trade.

1870 - Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines in the face of competition from European beet sugar. 1884 - New constitution marks the initial revival of local autonomy.

He was born in Pahokee and grew up in the Glades, the son of Jamaican immigrants. His father worked in the sugar fields, cutting down cane by hand for 75 cents a row, he said.

He was born in the nearby town of Pahokee and grew up in the region, the son of Jamaican immigrants. His father worked in the sugar fields, cutting down cane by hand for 75 cents a row, he said.

Florida’s largest sugar companies say cane burning is safe and can't be stopped without economic harm. But Brazil has successfully transitioned away from the controversial practice, and experts ...

Fans of Jamaican “funk” should know that this one is modestly estery, at 156 g/hL AA. On the nose, this one particularly stands out next to pretty much all of these other Plantation brands.

Portia Simpson, Jamaica’s minister of labor, welfare and sports, continues a two-day visit to Palm Beach County today, meeting with Jamaican sugar-cane workers employed by Okeelanta Corp. and ...

In its heyday in the 1680s, sugar cane occupied more than 50,000 acres in Barbados – half the island. By 1980, only 6,480 acres were planted in cane. That acreage is down to 4,050.