PEOPLE
OF LAW AND LEGACY by Camille Russell
Tyrique Wilson
do photoshoots and people did not buy clothes because there was nowhere to go. Taking the lessons learned from this, I knew I needed a legacy business that was sustainable and
immune to events like the pandemic,” Tyrique shared. “One of the reasons I am so focused on legacy is that my grandfather made it a point to have a strong sense of family. I remember him saying often, ‘we are Wilson’, and that stuck with me. However, as I grew older I realised that although we could be proud of my family name, we really did
W hen 18-year-old Tyrique Wilson entered The UWI, Cave Hill Campus as a law student in 2020, he was fully determined to become a lawyer and just as equally resolute to build a legacy. This desire led him to pursue varying entrepreneurial ventures, but it was his late grandfather’s rum cream recipe that would inspire him to create Barbados’s newest crème liqueur brand known today as Carringtons Rum Cream.
The third-year law student, with the support of his family, took the late Hurlstone “Harold” Wilson’s recipe for the spirit and developed it into what he describes as a “joyous drinking experience” . The brand was forged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, after his two other ventures in photography and clothing came to an abrupt end. “Neither of these initial ventures survived the pandemic period of lockdowns. I could not
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