The Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) has been ordered to pay Essequibo rice miller Arnold Sankar the more than $99 million it owes for paddy it asked him to supply.
The award, with accompanying interest and court costs, was made by High Court judges Jo-Ann Barlow and Simone Morris-Ramlall, who heard an appeal made by Sankar to the Full Court.
The thrust of the appeal surrounded the rice miller’s application to strike out a late defence which the GRDB sought to have filed before Justice Diana Insanally, by whom the matter was initially being heard.