Chinese company to be supplier for initial ‘One Laptop’ roll-out

Chinese company Haier Electrical Appliances Limited has won the bid to supply 27,000 netbooks for the government’s One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project, Finance Minister Dr Ashni Singh announced yesterday.

Singh made the disclosure at a post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President, where Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon said cabinet granted its “no-objection”