INSIGHT into the Jamaican construction industry was given to pupils at Elmslie Girls' School, Blackpool, recently.
Millicent Powell-Reid, director of a woman's construction collective from the Caribbean island, spoke to the girls about her work as a trainer.
She explained how courses in carpentry and masonry were held which allowed women to go into all-female gangs of construction workers who are employed because their work and attitude is seen as being more reliable.
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