THE CORRUPT PPP/C HIDES IN PARLIAMENT BUILDING FROM THEIR SUPPORTERS ESSEQUIBO RICE FARMERS:
THIS IS ANOTHER SHAMEFUL TRACK RECORD FOR THE CORRUPT PPP/C: THEIR OWN SUPPORTERS (ALL COOLIES) FROM ESSEQUIBO CAME WITH PLACARDS TELLING THE CORRUPT PPP/C MINISTERS HOW THEY ARE SCAMPISH AND CROOKED AND THIEVES:
EVENTUALLY GRANGER, RAMOTAR, MOSES AND ANOTHER APNU BIGGIE SPOKE WITH THE PICKETERS, AND THIS WAS ON TELEVISION FOR OVER ONE HOUR:
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ALL BECAUSE OF THE DUNCE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL MINISTER THE COMPUTER MAN
If this is a predude for what is going to happen in any elections then the Corrupt PPP/C would cried bitterly.
Sadly to say that Essequibo Rice Farmers, were given $44 - $45 Dollars for a bag of Paddy, today the Rice Millers wants to give them $30 - $32 dollars for the same bag, whils't the price they (the exporters) are receiving now has increased by a few dollars more. The Rice Farmers are contending that they talked with the Ministers responsible for Agriculture and he had promised them that the price should be what it was last year, that is 44 - 45 dollars per bag of paddy. Recently the Minister went to Essequibo and could not explain to the Rice Farmers why they are not getting the same price as per last year?
Like the rest of Corrupt PPP/C, the Minister did not have an answer.
Essequibo rice farmers picket budget reading
Rice farmers outside the Georgetown Magistrates' Court on Monday.
Several Essequibo rice farmers on Monday picketed the National Assembly as the budget was being read despite assurances from the government that they would soon be paid monies owed to them.
Minister of Agriculture Dr. Leslie Ramsammy recently revealed that farmers were owed some $300M by millers and that his ministry would be moving to clear the debt. He explained that the ministry would recoup the money from the millers once they were paid for their shipments to neighbouring Venezuela.
But about two dozen placard-carrying individuals congregated beyond the barriers that ringed the Parliament Building Monday afternoon to voice their displeasure. âFarmers want early meeting with the presidentâ one placard read while several others lambasted the Rice Producers Association for the representation it had afforded them.
âThere is a serious situation going on right now in Essequibo where monies are being released by this present administration to pay farmers and they are not getting it. Farmers are not being paid the sums that are owed to them; if youâre owed a million you get a $500,000 cheque and the other five they give you either a post-dated cheque or tell you to come back or something of the sort,â farmer Nateram complained to opposition leader David Granger whom they had asked to meet.
The farmer acknowledged that they did meet Dr. Ramsammy last week but said they were dissatisfied with the interaction.
Granger told the group that the APNU was aware of their problems with funding in the sector.
âWe support your demands that there should be a fund so that you have a stable price, you can depend on it, you canât go from crop to crop wondering wuh gon happen, when yuh gon get pay,â he stated.
He added that the APNU would make representation on their behalf for the set up of a national fund to stabilise rice prices.
AFC executive member Moses Nagamootoo also spoke to the farmers and said they wanted a standing account with the commercial banks that would be accessible to the millers to ensure the farmers were paid in a timely manner.
Meanwhile, inside the Asembly, Minister of Finance Dr. Ashni Singh spoke about the "historic high" to which the rice industry had grown as a result of favourable market conditions.
He also announced that some $500M had been earmarked this year to boost the industry's competitiveness and resilience.
Guyanese are daily awakening to the wickedness of the PPP. After a while people get wise to all the crooked dealings.
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