Rumpundit

The article says “with little fanfare”, but the whole business is being used by conservatives to attack Obama and government spending, because the ninety year old programme’s rollover was tagged onto the Stimulus bill. It may be dubious in many ways, not least for Puerto Rico, but it’s not Obama’s doing! And I still can’t [...]

Rum money running out – EU programme to end despite rum-makers plea Published: Wednesday | September 2, 2009 The European Union (EU) is sticking to its guns that the integrated rum programme, which funds the modernisation of the rum producing plants in Cariforum countries and prepares regional producers for full liberalisation of the EU rum [...]