AT its most recent meeting on Tuesday, Cabinet granted its no-objection to a contract for the purchase of text books for the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) Library, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon, announced last Wednesday.

Speaking at his usual post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President in Georgetown, Dr Luncheon said the contract is worth close to $18M.

Dr Luncheon said there was a May 2014 opening of bids for the purchase, and in the education sector, a bid was opened last July for the reprinting, supply and delivery of text books for national distribution. Cabinet also gave its no-objection to this contract, which is valued at $70.8M.