Webster corrects laptop cost

Jennifer Webster

Netbooks being procured under the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project are being purchased at a unit cost of US$295 ($60,770) per instrument and not $295,000, Minister within the Finance Ministry Jennifer Webster told the National Assembly yesterday.

On Tuesday, Webster had told the National Assembly that each laptop was being purchased at “a quite competitive” price of $295,000 (around US$1,430),