We were in the desert, in Wadi Rum, in a small Jeep.

The Governor ascribed this mainly to the Economic Development Commission tax incentive programme, which generated approximately 127 million, and to the new rum tax formula the United States Congress extended in September 2004, allowing the local rum industry to increase production by 20 per cent.

Goods manufactured for export include watches, textiles, electronics, pharmaceuticals and rum, which accounts for 15 per cent of the Territory's export revenue.

You know that you can hold a 40 ounce bottle of rum and two bottles of coke in a wineskin? So what, right?

You were the better at rolling a reefer, I was the better at coke and rum Remember that night on the beach in Ibiza?

To improve the Territory's insufficient waste disposal system, the Waste Management Authority was established in 2004 with grants from the Department of the Interior and rum tax revenues.

Not excrement merely, not merely surface and orifice going unwashed, rediffusion of rum, there was will in it, and intention, power and purpose a social, ethical rage and rebellion despair too, though, grief, loss.

The fact that the Cuba Ron S.A. corporation cannot sell Havana Club rum on the United States market and instead markets it in third countries in less favourable conditions owing to their distance from Cuba and the nature of their markets caused it to lose 28.4 million over the year.

I can imagine the celebrations in Gibraltar Town, where, now that the British naval base has closed and Spain is being difficult at the border, financial services are crucial for employment. And I can also imagine that many in Hamilton, Bermuda, which plummeted almost as far as Gibraltar climbed 16 places, to 56th must be crying into their rum punch.

The application of Section 211 by a New York court prevented a finding in favour of a company with Cuban and French interests (Havana Club Holding) in a lawsuit brought in 1996 in other words, prior to the approval of Section 211 in response to the unauthorized assumption by Bacardi of the right to use the Havana Club trademark in the United States by fraudulently marketing in that country a rum produced outside Cuba.