(Daily Chronicle January 5th 1973)
An aged Essequibo farmer told a magistrate that he was forced to drink bush rum because shop rum was too expensive.
Gildharrie called Browne of Hampton Court was charged before Magistrate Satrohan Singh at Anna Regina Court with having bush rum in his possession.
He pleaded guilty and told the court that he worked hard during the day and when he went home in the afternoon feeling tired, he usually took his “little toops.”
The magistrate fined him $250 with an alternative of four months imprisonment and advised him to stop drinking the illicit brew since it was injurious to his health.
