I write in response to an article in the letter columns on page 7 of Saturday May 14, 2011 edition of the Guyana Chronicle under the caption “Do we have to pay to get a laptop application form?’
The letter is most misleading and is set out to give the public wrong information as regards the distribution of the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF)application forms. I am asking the writer, Vishal Kanhai to come into the office and identify ‘the man’ as he stated who sold the application form. I will assure him that disciplinary action will be taken immediately against that person.
I wish to state for the benefit of all that the distribution of the OLPF forms were not done by any man as stated by Vishal Kanhai. It was done by a female staff with the assistance of one other female.
The system that the Council had for the distribution was that a register was opened with the wards of the town and each person who uplifted a form had to give their name and address and had to sign for same in the area in which they live. The distribution was done in the most transparent manner in view of all who came to collect a form. The register is there for inspection if anyone is desirous of doing so.
I do not know what Vishal Kanhai would gain from being so mischievous.