President of the Rice Producers Association and PPP/C Member of Parliament, Dharamkumar Seeraj says there is no middleman profiting from the rice deal with Venezuela.
In an invited comment he was responding to a recent report in the Kaieteur News that stated that there was heavy profiting off the trade.
Seeraj told Stabroek News that he was unsure of where the middleman notion came from. He said that the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) would organize the transactions for the shipment of rice and paddy to Venezuela but that the PetroCaribe barter agreement itself had stipulations.