The Rice Producers Association (RPA) yesterday flayed Minister of State, Joseph Harmon over his claim that the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) was culpable over the depleted PetroCaribe fund from which rice farmers have to be paid.
At a press conference yesterday at the Sleep Inn Hotel, General Secretary Dharamkumar Seeraj said: “I wish to state clearly that those statements by Mr. Harmon are wholly inaccurate, contemptuous and obviously in keeping with the wider smear campaign by the APNU+AFC Administration.
“The GRDB has no jurisdiction, no authority or no responsibility over the PetroCaribe account/fund and how it is managed. The RPA is of the view that these false statements were designed to fulfill a particular political agenda as it relates to the GRDB. The Government clearly intends to do
