Persaud commissions second of eight ICT centres for sugar workers

Agriculture Minister Robert Persaud on Friday  commissioned the second of eight ICT centres for the benefit of sugar workers and their families, and scores of workers particularly from the Skeldon Sugar Estate in Region Six were present, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.

Minister Persaud, underscoring the importance of ICT in the development of an economy, said that the intervention is a fulfillment of a promise by President Bharrat Jagdeo to extend ICT not only to the school system and community groups but to the sugar industry also.

Persaud also called for the facility to be accessible to each worker in