A senior official of the Essequibo Coast business enterprise Imam Bacchus and Sons has told the Stabroek Business that the protracted dependence of Guyana’s rice industry on “Venezuela’s rice prices” may well have left the sector unfit to compete in the international marketplace.
Stressing that he was expressing his own views, in response to a question posed by this newspaper, Aadil Baksh, a Director of the company, said what was now required was a long-term solution for the ailments of the sector. “The only way to do that is for the government
