IT personnel mull the offering of lap tops against desktops

President Jagdeo and some laptop recipients

– say Webster error should not have occurred

Public interest in President Bharrat Jagdeo’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPT) project took a new turn over the past two days following the admission by Junior Finance Minister Jennifer Webster that the figure of $295,000 per laptop which she quoted in the National Assembly on Tuesday was in fact US$295.

But while persons in the IT sector were prepared to accept that the minister had made a genuine error,