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 ...

Kingston – Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining, Franklyn Witter, says the sugar industry in Jamaica requires an ...

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.

Jamaica became a leading sugar exporter with the help of slave labour. ... 1870 - Banana plantations set up as the sugar cane industry declines in the face of competition from European beet sugar.

The mail pieces didn’t mention sugar or cane burning but used black-and-white photos of Messam at “Stop the Burn” events. “Steve Messam is part of the Sierra Club!” said one mailer.

The mail pieces didn’t mention sugar or cane burning but used black-and-white photos of Messam at “Stop the Burn” events. “Steve Messam is part of the Sierra Club!” said one mailer.

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.

Sugar cane production could be expanded even further in the coming decades as it is promoted as a biofuel, a 'green' alternative to oil and gas. In Brazil, for example, it used to be commonplace that ...