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  • 7 months ago
The Prime Minister says that 20,000 children from across the country are to benefit from book grants for the new school term.

Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar made the announcement Tuesday as she said the Siparia Constituency's Annual Back to School drive will see more than 2,000 children benefitting from private donations.
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00:01They say books open the mind, but technology opens the world.
00:06That is why the laptops are so important.
00:09And if we had carried through with our program, when in COVID the schools were shut down,
00:14the students would have still had the laptops to enable them to continue to learn and educate themselves.
00:22One prime minister of our country had said that the future of the nation is in the book bags of the children.
00:28Today, the future of the children and the future of the nation is in the laptops that are in the book bags of the children.