Trinrico Steel & Wire Products Limited

Business View Caribbean 11 As proud as Ramoutarsingh is of his company’s prod- ucts and services, he is equally proud of its dedication to its workforce. “Now that we’re 40 years old, we have second generation employees,” he says. “I, myself, am a second generation employee and some of our super- visors are the children of the founding supervisors. So, we have a very family-oriented environment. The attitude that we started with in Reform Vil- lage – that we were developing a company to help the commu- nity - has stayed with us, even in difficult times. We always try to avoid retrenchment and layoffs or making jobs redun- dant. We always try to uplift our workers. If a certain prod- uct or certain way that we are manufacturing is no longer vi- able, we will go the extra mile to retrain an employee or to find a new way of doing things utilizing the same employees.” Ramoutarsingh has only the highest praise for those employees. “Our workers are the backbone of the com- pany,” he says. “They always amaze me, how they grow with the company and its needs. They make the best