Public Utilities Minister Barry Padarath announced, via social media on Tuesday, that laptops have arrived in Trinidad in time for a Christmas gift from Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar to the nation's schoolchildren.

Saying this was yet another general election promise being kept, Padarath spoke on location at TTPost headquarters in Piarco in a 'live' video post on Facebook.

Padarath said that as the lead ministry for the laptops in schools programme, the Public Utilities Ministry tasked state telecoms company bmobile/TSTT to be the procurement agent for the initiative.