En­gi­neers will be in high de­mand for sev­er­al im­por­tant gov­ern­ment projects, Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing Prakash Per­sad has said.

Speak­ing at the As­so­ci­a­tion of Pro­fes­sion­al En­gi­neers of Trinidad & To­ba­go’s (APETT) Tech­ni­cal Con­fer­ence 2026 en­ti­tled ‘ En­gi­neer­ing Our Fu­ture: Sus­tain­able, Smart, Re­silient’, Per­sad not­ed that the gov­ern­ment’s re­vi­tal­i­sa­tion project, as well as the on­go­ing en­er­gy tran­si­tion plans in the coun­try would re­quire the skills of en­gi­neers.

“En­gi­neer­ing is about mak­ing the lives of peo­ple bet­ter, we should nev­er lose sight of that, and that should be em­bed­ded in ed­u­ca­tion as you go for­ward. So when we speak about en­gi­neer­ing of the fu­ture, we are not just talk­ing about roads and bridges or build­ings. We are talk­ing about de­sign sys­tems that sup­port eco­nom­ic growth, dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, en­vi­ron­men­tal sus­tain­abil­i­ty and so­cial in­clu­sion,” said Per­sad, dur­ing the event at the Hy­att Re­gency in Port-of-Spain.