At the start of the Christ­mas sea­son I was sur­prised to see the price of An­gos­tu­ra's rums go up again. I was just get­ting ready to soak fruits to make my Christ­mas fruit cake.

With things so hard in the coun­try, and less mon­ey to spend, I had to look for A less ex­pen­sive rum this year.

I found a brand from Guyana to be very good in qual­i­ty and its price to be much low­er than oth­ers on the mar­ket. How­ev­er, when I went back to the su­per­mar­ket to get more, I was told that it was out of stock. I looked around on­ly to get the same re­sults.

On in­ves­ti­gat­ing I was shocked to find out that the agent can­not get any stocks for Christ­mas be­cause the Guyanese com­pa­ny has stopped sup­ply­ing the brand fol­low­ing an arrange­ment with a lo­cal com­pa­ny. So what am I to do? I must have my fruit cake. Well, if ac­cord­ing to An­gos­tu­ra its rum is bet­ter than scotch, in­stead of pay­ing scotch price for rum, I am go­ing to learn to make fruit cake with scotch.

Meli­na Ram­paul

Ch­agua­nas