Lethem has a new Mayor-elect in businessman Kerry Jarvis, who has vowed to be transparent with the public in the operations of the town council.
Jarvis, an APNU+AFC councillor, was elected on Thursday to be the new mayor of the border town, beating out incumbent Mayor Carlton Beckles by one vote to assume leadership of the nine-member council.
Deputy Mayor Maxine Welch-Hendricks was re-elected unopposed.
