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Of the 150 schools set to re­ceive gov­ern­ment-is­sued lap­tops for Form One stu­dents, 60 per cent re­main with­out them as the new school term start­ed yes­ter­day.

Dis­tri­b­u­tion be­gan on No­vem­ber 27 at Pe­nal Sec­ondary School. In June 2025, it was an­nounced that the Gov­ern­ment would pur­chase 18,000 lap­tops and ac­ces­sories for stu­dents who were set to start Form One in Sep­tem­ber.

Per­ma­nent Sec­re­tary in the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry, Claudelle McKel­lar, said yes­ter­day an­oth­er tranche was ex­pect­ed to be re­leased in the next two weeks.