It has survived 19 coups, military rule, hurricanes, and even a three-year embargo. <p/> But in the Jan. 12 earthquake, Haiti's best-known export and one of its oldest businesses, Rhum Barbancourt, suffered a $4 million setback. Amber bottles and white oak vats — some containing rum as old as 15 years — crashed to the distillery floor.
Bacardi has added another legal victory in its long-running dispute with Pernod Ricard over the right to sell Havana Club rum.<p/> A federal judge rejected a lawsuit by Pernod Ricard that sought to block Bacardi from selling the Havana Club rum brand in the United States.
In a big leap forward for preservationists trying to salvage the historic but dilapidated Miami Marine Stadium, the Miami-Dade Commission has unanimously agreed to provide $3 million toward the city-owned facility's restoration.
Simmering tensions at the Miami-Dade Fire Department have spilled over, with union leaders pressing for the ouster of the county fire chief.<p/> Chief Herminio Lorenzo's response: Union bosses are resorting to lies and distortions and he's long enjoyed solid relations with employees “until this new group of radicals took over our labor organization.''
High school students in Florida would have to take more advanced math and science courses to graduate under a bill set for a final vote Thursday, a move that supporters hope will better prepare teens for college and career.
Plantation police “are following up on some promising leads'' in the death Tuesday of a Nova Southeastern University pharmacy professor at his home, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
When child welfare investigator Simon Roberts went to the home of a 39-year-old Miami man accused of having sex with his own teenage daughter, he found the man locked in a bedroom with the girl — both of them undressed.
It might be time for hotels to put hurricanes back atop their worry list. <p/> The economy's pounding of South Florida's tourism industry seems to have eased considerably, with new numbers suggesting a healthy rebound under way at hotels. With the peak of the winter tourism season finishing strong, that would leave the summer — and the storms it often brings — as the big hurdle to a lasting recovery.
Parrotheads, rejoice!<p/> Hollywood city commissioners voted Wednesday night to go with a Cheeseburger in Paradise rather than Somewhere Over the Rainbow as they voted unanimously to approve plans for a $100 million Margaritaville resort on the city's most prized piece of oceanfront land.
A Coral Springs woman found dead in a car submerged in a lake was killed by a blow to the head with a blunt object, according to information released Wednesday.
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