Relieved response greets return of Rupununi Rodeo

When the Stabroek Business paid an extended visit to Region Nine late last year, we had found Lethem and its satellite communities in a condition of less than high spirits, the state of the community’s economy, not least the condition of high unemployment and decline in business in the modest commercial sector and the pressures being felt by the ranching community on account of the intervention of the COVID-19 pandemic that had cost them two successive ‘seasons’ of the Rupununi Rodeo resonating in the outlook of the entire community.

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