Edwin Thirwell News Today

While there are no winding rivers of chocolate, Golden Tickets, and certainly no Oompa-Loompas, the day-to-day life of chocolatier Angus Thirlwell is not too different to Roald Dahl s most popular character.

Mars has announced it will buy Hotel Chocolat in a £534m deal to help the UK-based luxury chocolate brand expand its sales overseas. Hotel Chocolats founders will rake in over £140m each from the deal.

By Emmanuel Joseph Some 30 BICO ice cream mobile sales persons have pledged to remain on strike pending the outcome of a proposed meeting with Executive Chairman Edwin Thirlwell next Tuesday. The independent contractors came to the decision after meeting among themselves on Thursday at the Harbour Industrial Estate headquarters of the 122-year-old ice cream manufacturer. When contacted this evening, Thirlwell said he

Friday, April 14 is one of many significant days on our national calendar. It is the anniversary of the 1816 Bussa Rebellion and is also now the start of the annual Season of Emancipation.The slave rebellion here was the first of three slave uprisings that took place in the West Indies. Enslaved men and women who worked on several estates and plantations believed that Barbados belonged to them and wanted their freedom from the plantation owners. After much bloodshed, their freedom was granted.Ma...