GRANVILLE, Trelawny — Residents of the Granville community in Trelawny are now able to access the internet at the newly opened state- of -the -art computer resource centre located at the Granville Primary School in the parish.

The centre, established at a cost of $3.2 million, is funded by the Universal Access Fund (UAF) in collaboration with the Social Development Commission (SDC).

Speaking at the opening of the facility recently Managing director of UAF, Hugh Cross, reminded the gathering– consisting of students and members of the community– of Government’s plans to extend the e-Learning Project, which has been benefitting students at the secondary level, to the island’s more than 700 primary schools.

” The good news for Granville Primary is that the e-Learning Jamaica Company is just about now completing that project (at the high school level) and they now have a new mandate to move into the primary schools. And soon thereafter to move into early childhood schools. We don’t want to leave one single Jamaican behind,” Cross explained.

Since its inception seven years ago, the UAF has allocated $3.3 billion to the e-Learning Jamaica Company. The fund which derives its funding from a cess charged on overseas companies for telephone calls terminating in Jamaica, is the main source of funding for the e-Learning Project. So far the UAF has raised $8.7 billion from the tariff.

Meanwhile, the facility at Granville is equipped with 26 computers with high speed internet service, a laser printer and copier. Cross said the UAF would pay the internet charges there for the next two years.