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🇱🇨 Kigan Jo | Your Friendly Neighborhood R(h)um Guy 🇧🇧🇻🇪

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📍NY State Manager for Maison Ferrand
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🎄Tis di SZN for blackcake, sorrel, cremas/coquito/ponche de creme, pepper pot & pastelles. From the mountains of Paramin to the streets of @littlecaribbeannyc, there’s no denying #CaribbeanChristmas is di Best!

🧑🏾‍🎄 Wishing our @iamcaribbeing @littlecaribbeannyc FAMALAY in NYC, Back Home & the Diaspora a very Happy Holiday!

🎁 If you need to grab last minute gifts for yuh people dem or yuhself, pull up to @shopcaribbeing

📍1399 Nostrand Avenue in the ❤️ of @littlecaribbeannyc, open til 5pm!

🍶 Black cake, sorrel & @bountyrumstlucia ponche de creme samples while supplies last!
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2025 - a mega year to reflect-on. I don’t really come into the New Year with goals and resolutions per se but rather I love using the end of the year as a retrospective on the 12 months prior. So much has happened, so quickly, sometimes it feels like I’ve lived ten-years packed into one. Many, many hard lessons learned but overwhelmingly more successes to celebrate. Lots of letting go, but even more letting in. This year I told myself I would “do less”, stay focused and simplify things. Somehow that led to me doing more than I could have imagined. I invested my time in the people who chose to invest their time in me. A few life-long dreams came true. Home ownership. Showing up as a role model and mentor to a young man. Becoming a certified yoga instructor. When I was in my 20’s I dreamed of having a career and life that would take me around the World and—a decade later—sometimes I spend so much time in the air that I feel like I live on a plane. There were some serious uppercuts thrown my way this year that could have derailed me in a big way, but I have learned that hardships are an opportunity to leverage change. They make the light at the end of the tunnel even more rewarding when you hit it and I am simply grateful for it all: the good, the bad, the ugly, the surreal. HNY 2026.

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@neighbor.fest has hit me hardest spiritually this year. This success wouldn’t have happened without you guys supporting with pure love. Shoutout @sovereignbee for executing the event and making concrete feel beautiful and at home.
@auntsetuncles for hand creating the bar drinks. @denisebelfon @djladydrea @paninmotion @guaracheros999 @tallerdandman @ayannaheaven for the musical energy. @mbfni_ with 📸 memories

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@caribbeerusa for the beer @spiribam for liquor and @theheritagewinery for the 🇪🇷honey wine

My whole life I haven’t asked for much, it makes me feel so blessed that when I do, people show up. Thank you❤️🙏
Together we created a legitimate safe space of community, culture & oneness

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Just last month we had the pleasure to host an impassioned conversation entitled “Our Stories, Our Light: Illuminating the Caribbean Experience” at @cccadi. We were joined by our friends/collaborators/past zine features @treatise , @kigan.jo , @cybille_staude_tate and @chief_kiesh. Thank you to everyone who showed up to experience this conversation, and have a unique look through some of the CCCADI archives which were on display, and carefully passed around throughout the course of the event. Here are a few photos from the evening. 📸: @mario_ruben_

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Today was a good day 🫶🏽❤️

I voted early thanks to @citiesinfullcolor 🫶🏽

I ran into @kigan.jo at the voting booth 🫶🏽

I stopped by Mahmoud Khalil’s welcome home rally. Saw my @peoplesforumnyc folks as well as @mirasawjoy + @jeannieleee + @taj_mahaul + @tahia.co + @prometheus.brer holding it down making a joyful noise 🫶🏽

I Co-Hosted a song circle at @unionseminary with the help of @kairoscenternyc and the one and only @j.lykes ✊🏽 Shout out to @jawanzajames who sang and played today!! We almost ready for @socialismconference 🫶🏽

Counting my blessings and finding joy wherever I can. 🫶🏽

Summer in NYC is always special. It really does live up to the hype. 🥰

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It was an honour attending this book launch. Nina‘s humility and appreciation for everyone in the room was felt. She was radiating warmth!

Nina & Osayi have created something unique using recipes to unite the Caribbean islands while also capturing history and stories from Nina’s perspective. This is so much more than a recipe book and I’m pleased to have received a signed copy.

Also..I don’t normally have rum or cow heel soup but guess who had both and enjoyed it 😅. I tried both cocktails with my favourite being the Passion Fruit Rum Punch featuring Saint Lucia’s Chairman’s rum. Both recipes can be found in the book by the way).

What a lovely time to be a Saint Lucian in the place. Thanks to @really_kristofer for putting me on to this!

#KwéyòlCreole #NinaCompton

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⚓️ All who set sail with @iamcaribbeing @littlecaribbeannyc @detailzcarnival, here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for! Our official recap which is VERY DEMURE + ALL LOVE + PLENTY PLENTY VIBES‼️

🤍 Special thanks to our friends + partners + MONDAY MAS-ERS from as far away as Uptown, NJ, FL, Martinique, Guadeloupe, St. Lucia, Grenada & beyond‼️

📆 Save the Date:

Appreciation Fetenic Sat, 9/21 @governorsisland

@littlecaribbeannyc 7 Year Anniversary Sat, 9/28

🎥: @directorethxn
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Last day of #agricolerhum week @tikichickworld get your $12 self-service #tipunch or #byo daiquiri
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#tikichick #nyc #cocktails #agricole #rhumweek #uws #spiribam #clementrhum #vsop #hulahour #happyhour #daiquiri #cheers #friends #weekendvibes

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massively grateful for ALL who showed up and sent love for the BK edition of KWÉYÒL/CREOLE. the event was sold out and it was so beautiful.

this was actually the first time i’ve seen Nina adress a predominantly Caribbean audience about our work on this book. 🥹 we explicitly talked about these readers as being centric to the book’s mission and it was truly moving to see them rally for this work and for Nina’s incredible tenure. i felt the spirit so much I had to ask for a rollcall at the start of our talk! everybody was present and accounted for hahaaaa i ain’t catching no strays by dropping flags here lol

much love and appreciation to our dear brother @kigan.jo and @spiribam for generously sharing @chairmansreserveofficial St Lucian rum (add it as a float to your pina colada, you’re welcome) 🍹it’s also featured in rhe Daddy’s Milk Punch recipe in the book.

thank you to @akwaabainns for hosting us, an iconic landmark of Brooklyn and always a space of distinct character, history, and warmth

@bembrooklyn is our local bookstore supporting this work and your destination for all things Black food culture, thanks for your facilitation and planning !

Nina brought the cryo vac’d cow heel soup up from New Orleans and thanks to our catering friends who helped round out delicious bites. s/o to @gabsoul_ for the tunes ! had my little baby goddaughter busting moves 🩵🩵

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What a week: Baby’s first Miami Rum Congress (I’m Baby)…@spiribam team meeting in Laudy where I finally got to meet this incredible team….Florida’s first @clementliqueur SipScape…hanging with @pierrick_barancourt slinging congnac in Orlando and Tampa…meeting our two new partner brands @ginlane1751 and @mezcaltrascendente….and OBVS celebrating the Queen of Spiribam @jenakinmecrazy b-day all week

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What a week! I had the most incredible time with my team in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. It happened to be my birthday right in the middle of our team meetings, so of course we celebrated! I feel so insanely lucky to work with these talented, kind and wonderfully special people.

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