FOR too long rice millers have been using our rice farmers and even their service providers. They who live like the biggest of ‘shots’ seems bereft of shame, and are what the Trinidadians call: ‘Shamefaced’ and what we call ‘Barefaced’. How can these people eat and frolic, enjoy life, watch their faces in the mirror in the mornings; pray to their God and eat, knowing that they deny the rice farmers,  many of whom are peasant farmers, being barely able to live? They love to rob people, overeat and fatten their bodies with ill-gotten wealth.
The Hon. Agriculture Minister, with his Cabinet colleagues, the National Commission of Law and Order, and Parliament, must all come together and enact serious laws that sting, and with long teeth that bite into the marrow of the bone. There needs to be very rigid enforcement of laws, and millers who do not pay farmers in time should face the full force of the law.
I know of one of the largest rice farmers in the history of our country who went bankrupt overnight, and brought great shame to the family’s dynasty, whose name was forever associated with rice, but a name now of shame. 
They stole workers NIS contributions, which is tantamount to ‘blood-sucking’ and is (allegedly) done by numerous employers. I am ashamed to say even some so-called security services, survive by the theft of NIS contributions, and hence, can tender below the cost to win government security contracts, and they do.
That same rice company on the Essequibo Coast robbed the GRA of maybe billions of dollars of PAYE deductions and corporate taxes, even the undersigned just over $200,000 and stole over twenty employees we had processed as SC’s to work with them, and refused to pay the costs. 
They went bankrupt after two years. I knew that would have happened. They got what they deserved. I pitied the father who was the founder.
Currently we are involved with another large rice miller in the Essequibo Coast with a facet of our Security Company providing an important service to that miller. When it is time to pay the miller always delays, plays games, frustrates us, makes excuses, and lies.
For that service we have to pay a satellite company and a local telephone carrier for GPS/GPRS messages and activation, yet this huge rice miller, big rice people, seem not to care or lack understanding. Their service had to be shut off. They still owe.
I would like to plead with the Agriculture Minister to please do something majestic and establish rules, if they are non-existent, that the properties of the rice millers can be seized if culpable.
The system must be fast payment, or fast seizure or forfeiture of assets. 
Shame on the rice millers who cause misery in poor peoples’ lives, and tell lies to fatten their bodies and feed their children with ill-gotten gains!  My advice to them is that there is a hell here and a hell in the afterlife. 
Send them to jail (hell here)!