Dear Editor,
The October 2010 Guyana Review featured a question and answer interview with noted businessman Robert Badal, and it struck me that the exercise was obviously mutually self-serving.
The questions posed reflected an agenda in keeping with the anti-government posture of the paper, and Mr Badal’s responses clearly promoted him as an avowed nationalist.
Without desiring to comment on the entire exhaustive interview, I am compelled to ask whether Mr Badal’s withholding legitimate payments to rice farmers for their produce supplied to him, as well as being as an inhibiting factor in the full development of the rice sector, is being nationalist.
Yours faithfully,
David DeGroot
Editor’s note
We sent a copy of this letter to Mr Robert Badal for any comment he might have wished to make and received the following response:
“My company Guyana Stockfeeds has the best record in Guyana as far as the payment of rice farmers is concerned. In the four years since its entry into that sector, it has consistently paid the highest price for paddy, with payments made in full within two weeks to one month after receipt of paddy from farmers.
“Mr DeGroot’s agenda is well known.”
