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maj. tom wrote:Sir, please. We are getting our value for money in rental of One Alexandra Place. Please move on using your left foot, right foot special moves that you were taught in August. Did we not scorn the idea of free laptops for our children and instead chose 4 free led bulbs that we ourselves paid for with taxes?
Worry about how you will adapt to the flooding situation.
Thank you.
Post-Script: I forgot to remind you "Great is the PNM!!" *blows car horn*
death365 wrote:The same people who vote out unc.... And their free laptops is the same ones crying and scampering to get now
.. From their own MONEY
I can remember he video where the hourourable Keith C. Rowley saying that it was "bad".
rebound wrote:I was listening to pro pnm persons before the election and it appears that they saw the unc's promise to give children laptops as a negative and pnm's promise to tax them as a positive..... the power of an effectively executed chain-up is amazing.
Dohplaydat wrote:death365 wrote:The same people who vote out unc.... And their free laptops is the same ones crying and scampering to get now
.. From their own MONEY
I can remember he video where the hourourable Keith C. Rowley saying that it was "bad".
My whole office voted PNM but is level bad talking Rowley and co getting right now. If only PNM supporters knew they could vote otherwise.
Just to state one thing here, purchasing a laptop for every student would cost the government at least 0.5B TT..... Firstly that's not unreasonable, secondly maybe only half of those students actually need one given the majority of the middle class students have some working device.
A simple means test could have been used and all needing students could have been supplied laptops.
All this time we bought when we locked down hard from March to June could have been used to procure this.
sMASH wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:death365 wrote:The same people who vote out unc.... And their free laptops is the same ones crying and scampering to get now
.. From their own MONEY
I can remember he video where the hourourable Keith C. Rowley saying that it was "bad".
My whole office voted PNM but is level bad talking Rowley and co getting right now. If only PNM supporters knew they could vote otherwise.
Just to state one thing here, purchasing a laptop for every student would cost the government at least 0.5B TT..... Firstly that's not unreasonable, secondly maybe only half of those students actually need one given the majority of the middle class students have some working device.
A simple means test could have been used and all needing students could have been supplied laptops.
All this time we bought when we locked down hard from March to June could have been used to procure this.
with the kamla laptop, (and how shenzen does operate), u link up with a buildhouse, agree on a design, they prototype a few pieces, once u all agree, they build a few thousand in a run. u get them for a fraction of the cost of buying units off the shelves.
so, think that a reasonable laptop might be 2500, if u link with a manufacturer, it might drop to less than half that price.
thats why it have so many odd fones and electronics out there... they use spare parts and make runs of a few thousands and then pipe them off.
so, u get an updated version of the kamla laptop. find build house that can build for the reputable people, i.e. lenovo, samsung etc, and ask them to do some knock off unbranded runs for u specifically
bluefete wrote:LOL @ major tom.
Maxie boy - all those billions you talking about did not end up in the ordinary person's pocket, eh. Just saying.
Let den take bullDohplaydat wrote:death365 wrote:The same people who vote out unc.... And their free laptops is the same ones crying and scampering to get now
.. From their own MONEY
I can remember he video where the hourourable Keith C. Rowley saying that it was "bad".
My whole office voted PNM but is level bad talking Rowley and co getting right now. If only PNM supporters knew they could vote otherwise.
Just to state one thing here, purchasing a laptop for every student would cost the government at least 0.5B TT..... Firstly that's not unreasonable, secondly maybe only half of those students actually need one given the majority of the middle class students have some working device.
A simple means test could have been used and all needing students could have been supplied laptops.
All this time we bought when we locked down hard from March to June could have been used to procure this.
Dohplaydat wrote:sMASH wrote:Dohplaydat wrote:death365 wrote:The same people who vote out unc.... And their free laptops is the same ones crying and scampering to get now
.. From their own MONEY
I can remember he video where the hourourable Keith C. Rowley saying that it was "bad".
My whole office voted PNM but is level bad talking Rowley and co getting right now. If only PNM supporters knew they could vote otherwise.
Just to state one thing here, purchasing a laptop for every student would cost the government at least 0.5B TT..... Firstly that's not unreasonable, secondly maybe only half of those students actually need one given the majority of the middle class students have some working device.
A simple means test could have been used and all needing students could have been supplied laptops.
All this time we bought when we locked down hard from March to June could have been used to procure this.
with the kamla laptop, (and how shenzen does operate), u link up with a buildhouse, agree on a design, they prototype a few pieces, once u all agree, they build a few thousand in a run. u get them for a fraction of the cost of buying units off the shelves.
so, think that a reasonable laptop might be 2500, if u link with a manufacturer, it might drop to less than half that price.
thats why it have so many odd fones and electronics out there... they use spare parts and make runs of a few thousands and then pipe them off.
so, u get an updated version of the kamla laptop. find build house that can build for the reputable people, i.e. lenovo, samsung etc, and ask them to do some knock off unbranded runs for u specifically
Agreed, it can be very cheap for a decent useable machine nowadays.
My girl sister just bought this for her online classes.
Acer Aspire 5 Slim Laptop, 15.6 inches Full HD IPS Display, AMD Ryzen 3 3200U, Vega 3 Graphics, 4GB DDR4, 128GB SSD, Backlit Keyboard, Windows 10 in S Mode costing just over $400
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07RF1XD ... d_i=565108
Aside from the 4gb of ram it's surprisingly responsive when I was asked to install some pirated software for her.
De Dragon wrote:Once again we have been embarrassed by a Caribbean neighbour. First, it was Barbados supporting T&T citizens financially and otherwise when Goebbels wouldn't. Then it was Grenada showing how to reduce a debt/GDP ratio by REDUCING taxes unlike Impsy. Now St Vincent shows that laptops are their responsibility to keep the education playing field level, at least in terms of hardware, while we're begging cap in hand to NGO's and private sector companies.
MaxPower wrote:Hello bluefete,
The Govt is not in any position right now to do this sort of expenditure.
Had Trinis complied to the guidelines as advised by the MOH from the very early stages of this pandemic, maybe then the Govt could have afforded.
Billions were spent on mining irresponsible Trinis.....billions.
SVG elects Gonsalves for 5th term as PM
Dr Ralph Gonsalves has been reelected Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines for a fifth term.
The electorate gave Dr Gonsalves' Unity Labour Party (ULP) nine of the 15 seats in the Parliament.
It represents an increase of three seats on the previous one-seat majority he had enjoyed in the last two general elections.
It is also the first time that a political party has won five consecutive general elections there.
Gonsalves, 74, easily won his North Central Windward seat he has been representing since 2001, brushing aside the two other candidates in Chieftain Neptune of the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) and Kadmiel McFee of the CVG Green Party.
In a message posted on his Facebook page, Gonsalves thanked voters for returning the ULP to power.
“It’s celebration time. It is five in they tail,” he wrote,” as party supporters gathered for a celebration.
NDP leader Dr. Godwin Friday, 61, who led the party into a general election for the first time, easily retained the Northern Grenadines seat he has represented in Parliament since 2001. He polled 2,123 votes against 458 for the ULP’s Carlos Williams.
The NDP swept the two seats on the sister isle of the Grenadines. The other seat, in the Southern Grenadines was won by Terrance Ollivierre, who defeated Edwin Snagg by a margin of 1153 to 559.
One of the causalities of the election was Health Minister Luke Brown, who was defeated by newcomer, Dwight Fitzgerald Bramble in the East Kingstown constituency that had been represented by former NDP leader Arnhim Eustace, a former prime minister and finance minister, who quit active politics last year.
Brown, who polled 2, 306 votes had been defeated in the last two elections by Eustace and had hoped to win the seat in his absence. Bramble polled 2,547. In the North Leeward, the ULP’s Carlos James won by seven votes against the incumbent Ronald Mathews, polling 2, 287 as against 2, 280 for Mathews. James had lost the seat in the 2015 election by 12 votes.
- Edited from CMC News
https://www.guardian.co.tt/news/svg-ele ... e6588956c2
bluefete wrote:maj.tom: In Banana Republics like T&T, elected leaders only give up power when they are dead on when they get voted out (and then then some don't).
Williams died in office.
Chambers, Panday, Manning, Robinson, Kamla were all voted out but continued to hold on to Opposition office (except Manning in 2010 when Rowley and Imbert and dem ran his tail from Balisier House.)
We are pseudo - democracy followers.
Once they look like Rowlee and share his ill behaviour, then yesRovin wrote:like ULP is d pee nm of that country ? ....
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