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One Caribbean Nation. by the Mahogany Coconut Group Charles Herbert                                   Chris Rogers Walter Prescod Barbados,  a small island with a predominantly Black population, has been thrown into a frenzy, with the rare charge against two prominent white businessmen , for drug trafficking. The island is now in full debate mode, regarding the legal embattlement of these two corporate high flyers: Charles Herbert and Chris Rogers. Herbert being the Chairman and Rogers a director, of the hugely successful Goddard group(GEL) of companies. The intrigue continues to grip the island, because Herbert, literally broke with white political tradition, and was heavily involved, in the ouster of the recently defeated Democratic Labour Party (Elections were May 24th 2018). He is known to be a great supporter of the newly elected, and first female Prime Minister, of the island, Ms. Mia Mottley, who heads the Barbados Labour Party. Additionally, he is the head o

One Caribbean Nation. By  Elizabeth Heath |  May 29, 2018 8:00 pm Vincent Van Gogh sold just one painting during his lifetime. He toiled in obscurity and poverty, only to be appreciated after his death. Once art collectors started to realize the value of his work, it was scooped up, and now a Van Gogh piece rarely comes on the market. Fifteen years after a little-known Caribbean rum distillery shut down for good, it’s having a Van Gogh moment. The Caroni Ltd. distillery in Trinidad was a state-run distillery, producing heavy rums made from its own sugarcane crops. At its height, the sugar refinery and distillery employed more than 9,000 workers. Caroni was the preferred rum of the British Navy, but the lads apparently didn’t drink enough of it to sustain Caroni’s labor-intensive, unindustrialized methods of farming, processing and distilling. After years of being subsidized by the Trinidad and Tobago government, the sugar-growing industry on the island collapsed, and i