As Trinidad and To­ba­go’s welders face shrink­ing op­por­tu­ni­ties in the do­mes­tic en­er­gy sec­tor, a grow­ing pool of high­ly trained welders is be­ing tapped for one of Eu­rope’s most am­bi­tious in­fra­struc­ture builds - the Unit­ed King­dom’s £37 bil­lion nu­clear pow­er pro­gramme.

Re­cruit­ment is now un­der­way at Point Ga­le­o­ta, Guayagua­yare, where com­bi­na­tion welders are be­ing trade-test­ed for work on a project ex­pect­ed to pow­er mil­lions of homes and an­chor Britain’s tran­si­tion to low-car­bon en­er­gy.

The op­por­tu­ni­ty of­fers sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er earn­ings and in­ter­na­tion­al ex­po­sure, even as con­cerns linger about the po­ten­tial loss of skilled labour at home.