Two parliamentary parties have excoriated the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative with GAP’s MP Everall Franklin calling for an immediate review of it.
Following a falling out in the National Assembly over the cost of the instruments being purchased by the government under the OLPF, the opposition members are asking for all documents related to the project to be made public. On Wednesday, Minister within the Finance Ministry Jennifer Webster sought to correct a statement she had made in the House the previous day and said that the netbooks being procured under the OLPF are being purchased at a unit cost of US$295 ($60,770) per instrument and not $295,000 as
