Region Nine council to meet today on travel criteria amid COVID restrictions

Region Nine council members will be holding a meeting today to discuss criteria for persons to be eligible to receive a permit to leave the Region after a restriction on travel was imposed over the weekend.

Just days after the updated COVID-19 emergency measures that restrict travel into and out of regions Seven, Eight and Nine, Lethem Mayor, John Macedo and other council members will be meeting to discuss the criteria for persons to leave Lethem should the need arise, Debra King, the Deputy Mayor of Lethem told Stabroek News yesterday.