Rhum Barbancourt

Thierry Gardère, the general director of Haiti's Rhum Barbancourt, died on his way to the hospital on Wednesday, March 1, 2017.

Gardère, 65, felt a respiratory discomfort, he was taken from his secondary residence in Cyvadier, Jacmel, to his home in Port-au-Prince around 11 am.

Once he arrived, he complained of discomfort, he had trouble breathing. On his way to the hospital for the emergency, he died before he would get there. It happened very quickly. It seems like it was a pulmonary embolism.

What if there was a fully equipped hospital near his secondary home in Jacmel?

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The other day, Le Nouveliste wrote an article with the title: "Pour un rhum importé, Bicha avilit le vaudou et Barbancourt." Tonton Bicha was not to happy about that. So he wrote a letter to Le Nouveliste... Here is the English translation of that letter...

I was on tour in Canada when a friend sent me an email in which he invited me to read an article in the oldest daily newspaper, Le Nouvelliste , who spoke about me. The title of the article led me to believe it was an interested approach : " For an imported rum, Bicha degrades voodoo and Barbancourt ." I categorically deny the charges against me....

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Haitian actor Daniel Fils-Aime aka Tonton Bicha is in the hot seat because of his latest commercial for Bakara, a rum imported from the Dominican Republic into Haiti...The latest commercial is calling Bakara a "Rhum Culturel", that has upset a lot of people.

Well.. It is a little bit more complicated than just calling Bakara a rhum culturel...

Le nouvelliste release an article today with a long list of people who are imply upset because the latest commercial for Bakara trashes "Pa Ban m kou" (Barbancourt) and the vodou religion is use in the commercial in a way that upsets the Ati Max Beauvoir, the supreme vodou leader in Haiti.

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