MOUNT GAY RUMA Poem by COLLYMOREThe genius of Barbadian entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen.By The genius was absolutely Barbadian via whose entrepreneurial skills a commonplace garden reed or conversationally the grass, later to be globally known as sugar cane, was first anywhere in the world to be chosen, and its prized contents skilfully turned into a liquid gem that’s unique and quite deservedly World Class! © Stanley V. Collymore 14 July 2001. It was in England’s oldest, wealthiest, unbrokenly associated and only autonomous colony globally until its full independence asked for and granted in November 1966 - the Barbados Parliament dates back continuously to 1627; older than the creation of the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, many countries in the EU and Europe generally, including my beloved Germany, and is the second oldest in the former British Empire, now the Commonwealth, after the Westminster one. Significantly too, it was the wealth of Barbados from sugar and rum predominantly and the monopoly that Barbados and England jointly had on these commodities - there was no United Kingdom at the time - which funded and gave birth to the English Industrial Revolution. © 2013 COLLYMORE |
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Added on March 7, 2013 Last Updated on March 7, 2013 Tags: Barbados, Mount Gay, Rum, Sugar, English Industrial Revolution AuthorCOLLYMORECambridge, Cambridgeshire, United KingdomAboutAcademic, Journalist, Writer. I'm a highly intelligent, articulate and well-educated human being with an intuitive but enterprising sense of responsibility and a strong moral compass that instincti.. more..Writing
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