With the discovery of oil in the country,
sugar gradually decreased as the main source of Trinidad and Tobago’s economy (Sugar Heritage Village, Ministry of Tourism, Trinidad and Tobago), but those involved in sugar cane cultivation kept the traditional knowledge they learned, which included rum distillation, a significant part of sugar cane plantation activity throughout the crop’s cultivation history in Caribbean islands such as Trinidad and Tobago (A Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails, 2007).