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The Chinese government will be the initial financier of the Jagdeo administration’s ambitious US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) initiative which it is looking to roll out by year end, Stabroek News has learnt.

President Bharrat Jagdeo says the administration supports calls for campaign financing reform but cautions that any model adopted locally should ensure a level playing field for all political parties.

-some businesses thriving, many lots empty The Coldingen Industrial Estate on the East Coast Demerara is limping along more than a dozen years after being opened and having never truly achieved its intended objective as a bustling business hub.

-Housing fund details still being worked on President of the Guyana Teachers’ Union Colin Bynoe says the union will be looking to ensure boarding school teachers who live in are properly compensated under the new wage deal to be discussed with government to replace the 2006-2010 wage package agreement.

-more bandwidth going to security firms, call centres The introduction of GT&T’s Emagine Broadband is attracting interest from several overseas entities including universities looking to extend their online programmes to Guyana, the company’s CEO Yog Mahadeo says.

The Office of the President (OP) has begun advertising for ICT trainers to fill positions on the US$30 million One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project as the government aims for a year-end roll out, which will see the instruments eventually given to some 90,000 families.