Guyana Threatens Legal Action Over Rice Trade

Guyana is threatening legal action against its Caricom member states which routinely breach a five year pact on production, export and import of the commodity.

Senior rice officials in Georgetown, including chairman of the Caribbean Rice Association (CRA), Beni Sankar, complain that the region had regressed five years after the regional montoring mechanism (LMM) was introduced to help regularise the rice trade.