Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has had plenty of exposure in the state media as he traverses around the country on his outreaches, and speaks on a whole range of issues affecting the agriculture sector. Except one. And that exception is the circumstances surrounding the issuance of two new sea-bob licences. The full details of how this came about are still as obscure as they were on November 19 last year, when the Guyana Association of Trawler Owners and Seafood Processors first wrote him on the issue. The authorities can attempt to burnish the Minister’s image as much as they please, but as long as he withholds information and engages in dissimulation his reputation will lose whatever modest lustre it might otherwise have had........