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Aug 13, 2020 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
I am deeply saddened to learn that such a large quantity of cocaine was intercepted in Germany from rice shipped from Guyana.
It is known that GRDB is the main authority responsible for the rice industry in Guyana. That includes all sampling, packing, loading, fumigation, certification, and final sealing off of all containers and cargo vessels with rice or paddy and its product leaving Guyana. They must have senior officers and staffers at all point to supervise these operations and execute these functions of the rice board. In order for 1.5 ton of cocaine to end up in a shipment of rice in Germany they had to be some serious collusion or some arrangement with these rice board officials and the millers that ship the rice before such can happen. Everyone know this by now since once the containers and cargo are certified and seal from the port they are only open when they arrived at their destination.
The damage is already done and this will certainly affect the future marketing and trade of Guyana rice with the rest of the world. It will cause a big stain of the rice industry, the country and definitely affect the rice farmers because it is well known that the rice industry in Guyana depend highly on rice exports with almost 90 percent of the rice produced being exported to different parts of the world.
The new government and minister of agriculture need to launch an investigation immediately into this and those found not doing their jobs properly or working in the best interest of the organization and country should be removed.
Yours truly,
Kumar Ramsingh
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