Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
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>Brandon Cruz González
Wednesday, February 3-9, 2021 - // no. 093
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Construction Industry:
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Workers Needed
Hopes to jumpstart the local economy in 2021
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Rosario Fajardo and Giovanna Garofalo
ne of the organizations that groups leaders dedicated to Puerto Rico’s construction industry, the Puerto Rico Construction & Infrastructure Cluster (PRCIC), is raising alarm bells on a lack of skilled labor in the sector, which is reportedly hampering economic
activity. As such, the organization said an islandwide “Action Plan” is needed to address the crisis in the shortage of
skilled labor that currently affects the construction industry, which they argued will worsen once hundreds of additional construction projects with FEMA, Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) and those funded by the private sector begin, hopefully in the coming months. Wilson Nazario, president of the PRCIC, affirmed that the construction industry “has been dragged by a crisis in the labor force due to the high demand for workers prior to the 2020 pandemic GO TO PAGE 4