Business View Caribbean | November 2020

30 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN NOVEMBER 2020 per year for four years to pursue their academic interests.“We also support these students with summer employment,” adds Mullings. “In the past four years, we’ve developed an internship programme that grants internship opportunities to our scholarship awardees as well as to students at the University of Technology and the University of the West Indies, offering preliminary training that prepares them for the working world.” It all harkens back to that principle of reciprocity the firm was founded upon. “One of our biggest challenges as a company has to do with the complexities of skilled labour shortages in Jamaica,” says Mullings. “That and maintaining the momentum of the construction industry so that we, as a country, can retain our skilled labour. When the industry loses momentum, those individuals seek jobs elsewhere. You’ll notice a lot of Jamaicans are in Canada right now– truck drivers, equipment operators, engineers. But when we’re able to