![Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill presents a laptop to one of the recipients. [GINA Photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.inewsguyana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Laptop.jpg)
Minister within the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill, visited the community of Kwakwani recently at which time the One Laptop Per Family Programme (OLPF) was engaged in distribution of over 700 laptops to families in Kwakwani and neighbouring communities along the Berbice River.
Minister Edghill explained to residents that in common-law marriages where persons reside in the same household, with different last names, they are still considered as a single family by the Government.
He further explained to residents that the Government’s goal is to bridge the Information Communication Technology (ICT) gap for Guyanese, and as such, every family that qualifies to receive the laptop will benefit.
“It is not fair for us to give two and three laptops per home when someone else could have gotten the opportunity to receive a laptop. Let us be our brother’s keeper! Let us not try to trick the system,” the Minister urged.
![Residents of Kwakwani and surrounding areas gathered to receive their laptops. [GINA Photo]](https://i0.wp.com/www.inewsguyana.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kwakawni.jpg)
He told the recipients that education should be available for the people in the Berbice River and Kwakwani, the way it is for persons in other parts of Guyana. He stated that the laptop can be an enabling tool for children to perform better in schools because of the vast availability of information it possesses through the internet. [Extracted and modified from GINA]
…and while the government distributes laptops, the first case of ebola has been detected in Brazil.
a few hundred will use their laptop to vote on on line polls..then if the question asked..should ppp be removed from office by hook or crook…they will vote yes 90% of that 700 who get tax payers laptop…pnc people are for real yeah hmmm