Trawler owners say have never heard of holder of controversial licences

The mystery behind who really holds two controversial trawling licences deepened yesterday when the trawler owners association said that it had never heard of the person named by the Ministry of Agriculture on Monday.

Unfamiliar with the name Rampersaud Sookhdeo, the Guyana Association of Trawler Operators and Seafood Processors (GATOSP)  says it is making enquiries to determine who exactly is the holder of the licences issued secretly by the PPP/C government.

President of the Association, Ruben Charles, when contacted yesterday told Stabroek News, “The association wants to know who this person is. We have never heard of him and no one in the fishing industry seems to know who it is.”