Ex-GRDB members charged with failing to record over $250M in funds

Jagnarine Singh

Six former Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) members, including two opposition parliamentarians, were yesterday charged with failing to record entries for funds amounting to over $250 million in total in the agency’s general ledger.

Those charged before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan in Georgetown were: Jagnarine Singh, former GRDB General Manager; Prema Roopnarine, former Deputy Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture; Ricky Ramraj, agricultural consultant; Badrie Persaud, business consultant; Dharamkumar Seeraj,