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Tiki Kiliki Productions presents…
THE HUKILAU
Experience Polynesia in America’s Vacationland
www.thehukilau.com
June 10 – 13, 2010
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
Event locations include
The Mai-Kai Restaurant, Bahia Cabana and Bahia Mar
Press contact: leejemail@gmail.com
Event website: www.thehukilau.com/2010/
General event information: info@thehukilau.com
The Hukilau, in association with Seven Tiki Rum, Trader Vic’s and Tiki Farm, announces the 9th annual Hukilau, taking place from June 10th to June [...]

Black Chamber urges Congress to stay out of battle over rum tax
By Kevin Bogardus – 02/17/10 05:13 PM ET
The National Black Chamber of Commerce is urging Congress not to interfere with a battle over a Caribbean rum distillery.
In a Feb. 16 letter sent to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), the Black Chamber — along [...]

February 17, 2010, 6:47 pm
New Rum Campaign Has a Sophisticated Tone
By STUART ELLIOTT
The raucous, party-hardy image of rum is not for the rum distillers of Puerto Rico. They are taking another tack in a campaign that is now under way.
The campaign, which carries the theme “A reflection of who you are,” has a tone [...]

Rum revival sparks new interest in old spirit
By MICHELLE LOCKE (AP) – 20 hours ago
SAN FRANCISCO — If the huge anchor and float lights hanging from the ceiling of Martin Cate’s Smuggler’s Cove bar don’t clue you in, the stacks of barrels and ship’s figurehead mounted on the wall should get you in the spirit [...]

So somebody else is reading Rumpundit..we’ve been warning about WTO consequences from the beginning. Get in their Caricom.. get the same excise rebate deal!
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Captain Morgan Subsidies May Trigger W.T.O. Complaint
Distiller Serralles Warns Obama that USVI Subsidies Exceed Production Costs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Puerto Rican Coalition today cautioned President Obama that a [...]

David Cid sends a video celebrating the bar tender and cocktail crafter, lonely but essential tasks to keep civilisation as we know it ticking over. Click for the link!

Ian Burrell’s video trailer for next year’s London Rumfest – no clips from my seminars, but the dancers are more attractive (even) than me!
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click for a preview, and you can almost smell the rum..
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?comments=&v=1321911721487

This is actually more about the political system in Washington than rum. Interesting headline – would the deal have been acceptable if this were a domestic rum company?
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Lobbyists Help Smooth the Way for a Tax Break for Foreign Rum Maker
by Marcus Stern, ProPublica – February 3, 2010
Feb. 3: This post has been corrected [1].
A [...]

Haiti’s Rhum Barbancourt Suffers Quake Damage
Dan Marsteller
Posted: January 25, 2010
Rhum Barbancourt’s Port-au-Prince distillery will not resume production for at least a month following significant damage sustained during the Haitian capital’s recent earthquake. One of the facility’s exterior walls fell, and barrels of aging rum were destroyed along with equipment inside the plant. Two of Rhum [...]

Local rum now among world’s best
01 Feb 10 by PETER BODKIN Manly Daily (Australia)
Local rum now among world’s best
Tony Stubley … amazed by the new company’s success. Picture: MARTIN LANGE
WHEN North Narrabeen’s Tony Stubley met his friend Stuart Gilbert for lunch two years ago, he had no idea they would plan a “rum rebellion” that [...]