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An­gos­tu­ra Ltd has an­nounced that prices for its lo­cal­ly man­u­fac­tured rums will in­crease from to­mor­row (Oc­to­ber 17, 2025), fol­low­ing the Gov­ern­ment’s re­cent rise in ex­cise du­ty on rum and spir­its.

The com­pa­ny said the ad­just­ments are nec­es­sary af­ter the ex­cise du­ty took im­me­di­ate ef­fect as part of the 2025/2026 Na­tion­al Bud­get.

In a state­ment, An­gos­tu­ra de­scribed it­self as a re­spon­si­ble cor­po­rate cit­i­zen with more than 200 years of her­itage in Trinidad and To­ba­go, adding that it sup­ports the Gov­ern­ment’s ef­forts to strength­en fis­cal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and na­tion­al de­vel­op­ment.