Thursday, December 04 2008
By Al Edwards (
Jamaica Observer)
Almost two hundred years ago Jamaica enjoyed a vibrant tobacco industry, which provided a handsome revenue stream for its then colonial master, Great Britain. In the industrial age, tobacco fell by the way side and in the twenty-first century, tourism and bauxite/ alumina are now the leading foreign exchange earners.
Joseph Adduci intends to turn back the hands of time by producing cigars with Jamaican tobacco. Of Italian- American decent, he came to Jamaica some fifteen years ago. During that time he has run a 10,000 acre farm, a cable television company, an ice factory and a boutique hotel all in the parish of Westmoreland. He learned how to grow tobacco in Connecticut, in the United States.
Joseph Adduci spearheads Jamaica's cigar industry continues...
