Government is facilitating the training of more than 1 500 people for critical roles in the ongoing construction boom, says Minister of Housing Lands and Maintenance Dwight Sutherland.He said the workers were from the National Housing Corporation (NHC) and Ministry of Transport, Works and Water Resources and are part of the plan to facilitate the building of 10 000 houses promised by Government.He made the disclosure while giving remarks at a handing over ceremony in Farmers, St Thomas on Wednesday.Sutherland said there were claims being made by some business people that there was a shortage of workers for the construction industry.
