5,000 laptops set to be handed out

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The first shipment of 5,000 laptops for the government’s ambitious One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative arrived in the country yesterday and the first recipients should receive their notebooks by next Friday.

The Haier-branded laptops came on board a Laparkan flight from the United States and Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir noted at a brief ceremony at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, …..

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