Laptops Gift from Trinidad for Saint Lucian Students! A total of 3,300 of the 21,500 Lenovo Thinkpad laptops bought by the People’s Partnership Government, at a cost of $58 million, will be shipped to St Lucia as part of a government-to-government Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh said yesterday. He made the comment during a telephone interview in response to questions as to why Government had purchased a few thousand more computers for distribution to the students who had sat Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) exam this year. He said the agreement was the culmination of discussions between the Education Ministry and St Lucian Education Minister Lewis. He said Lewis will arrive next week to sign the MOU for the repayment of $7.9 million for the extra laptops.
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:12:17 +0000
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