While diplomats reflected yesterday on the philanthropic business leader the late Lascelles Chin became throughout his 86 years of life, his daughter, Lisa Watts, spoke instead of how her down-to-earth father took her to a club for the very first time. That is a side of Chin that up to his death, many never knew.
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Given Lascelles Chin’s decades of contributions to nation building, it would have been remiss of Prime Minister Andrew Holness to not be present at yesterday’s thanksgiving service for the life of the 86-year-old businessman and philanthropist. Holness, whose tribute followed that of Chin’s daughter, Lisa Watts, reflected on how he witnessed Chin changing lives, especially
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Staying true to its ethos of caring – on Labour Day, the LASCO Chin Foundation, in partnership with LASCO Distributors Limited, LASCO Manufacturing Limited and LASCO Financial Services Limited, joined hands with the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation to deliver warm, hearty meals to the needy in the downtown Kingston area. Here LASCO Chin
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Pioneer, patriot, gentle giant and friend. That’s how the nation’s leaders, union representatives, and business stakeholders described the late founder of the Lasco Group of Companies, Lascelles Chin, in tributes that poured in Monday. Chin, who was 85, died in the United States on Saturday night. He was recognised for staging events and competitions that
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Former Prime Minister PJ Patterson says Jamaica “has lost another of its great entrepreneurs and philanthropists” with the passing of Lascelles Chin. Chin, the founder of the Lasco Group of companies, died Saturday aged 86. In a statement to the media, Patterson said Chin’s upbringing paved the way for the great entrepreneur and philanthropist Chin
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HOLDING firm to the belief that education is for improving the lives of citizens while providing stability in our homes and communities, the LASCO Chin Foundation, along with the Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) and the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), recognised the immense work of Jamaican educators at the LASCO/MoEY/JTC 2022 principal and teacher
The LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF), in association with the Ministry of Education and the Jamaica Teaching Council, is honouring the innovative spirit and resilience of Jamaican educators with Principal and Teacher of the Year Awards which is set to be held on Friday (February 3). Leading up to the event, Jamaicans have the opportunity to
Twenty-four young people drawn from 12 communities in four parishes have been trained in various aspects of economic management. The training was conducted by LASCO Chin Foundation under the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Positive Pathways grant initiative. Programme Manager of LASCO Chin Foundation Paul Irving explained that “we are training young people
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THE Lasco Chin Foundation recently partnered with Florida-based, Jamaican-owned media company About Her Culture to provide a micro grant of US$500 to a woman entrepreneur or non-profit founder. Jamaican non-profit founder, psychologist and educator Kenene Senior was chosen as the micro grant recipient for the first of what will be several micro grants given to
Richmond Park Church of the Nazarene’s Reverend Dr Andrew Henry enjoys a light moment with Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) President Patsy Edwards Henry (second right) and LASCO Chin Foundation Operations and Programme Manager Tahirah Fraser (right) at the close of the NAJ/LASCO Nurses Week church service last Sunday, July 17. Sharing in the moment
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