Over 1,000 more Region Four residents receive Gov’t laptops

Over 1000 laptops were yesterday distributed at centres in Region Four  bringing the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Secretariat closer to achieving the 6,000 target during this current phase of distribution, the Government Information Agency said last night.

Yesterday’s distribution encompassed Victoria to Haslington, Enterprise to Paradise, and Lusignan  to  Good Hope, East Coast Demerara; in Georgetown, Stevedore, South, East  and West Ruimveldt, East, North East and West La Penitence, Roxanne Burnham, Shirley Field Ridley and Rasville; and Houston to Providence, and Timehri and Long creek, East Bank Demerara.

“It is a tremendous gift from the Government that will spearhead what I want to do in terms of being educated about the computer, because today we are moving fantastically in the technological world,” Timothy Smith, a resident of Melanie said, according to GINA. He collected his laptop at Enterprise where a total of 287 were given out.