Skilled workers needed!

Barbados is facing a deepening construction labour crisis, warn industry leaders as major firms struggle to find masons, carpenters and other skilled workers as demand surges to unprecedented levels.

Chief executive officer (CEO) of the JADA Group Philip Tempro told the Sunday Sun: “We should be focusing on skills training on this island and mentorship programmes but instead, we focus on university degrees.

You can’t construct a nation with doctors and lawyers. You need carpenters...