Last year, gay rights groups in the United States chose this as one of the Jamaican products to boycott. Meantime, we don’t know anybody who drinks this local product, locally. Everyone drinks Appleton Special but getting advanced in years means we can appreciate that overproof rum, which, while it may be a lot stronger, still [...]

This ad (one of several) was created by San Francisco Ad agency Plan B in 2005 having been filmed in Kingston over the course of a week. The ads never made it to air but soon after they were completed they were leaked to YouTube and Red Stripe got some of the best advertising they [...]

Circa 1959