Founder and executive chairman of LASCO Chin Foundation, Lascelles Chin, beams with pride after he presented the 2022-2023 NAJ/LASCO Nurse of the Year award to Alicia Adamson (centre), nurses’ manager at Victoria Jubilee Hospital, and 2022-2023 NAJ/LASCO Student Nurse of the Year La-Daniel Campbell from Brown’s Town Community College School of Nursing. The 2022 NAJ/LASCO
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The LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) is collaborating with partners to ramp up efforts to equip mainly Caribbean women with the skills needed to effectively respond to COVID-related business challenges. The Foundation recently celebrated the matriculation of its first cohort of trainees under its ‘Swift E-Skills’ Training Programme, launched in January of this year. The collaborative
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In the midst of another devastation in Haiti after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck near Les Cayes, Jérémie and other areas of Southwest Haiti, there is a ray of hope!!! Since 2011, Trees That Feed Foundation (TTFF) has worked closely with organizations and individuals in the affected areas of Haiti, primarily in planting breadfruit trees
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On June 9, 2020, an online Zoom Forum entitled, “Caring through COVID,” brought together 11 out of 33 organizations that have partnered with the LASCO Chin Foundation in providing more than 14,000 Care Packages to needy families across Jamaica. The Honorable Lascelles Chin, Founder and Executive Chairman of the LASCO Affiliated Companies and Chairman of
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MONTEGO BAY, St James – Michael Ellis, the principal of Cornwall College, says the recent distribution of care packages by the Lasco Chin Foundation to parents of students from schools across St James, could not have come at a better time. Schools from around the parish, including high schools, were included in a national outreach that
FIFTY shut-ins and senior citizens in five adjoining communities in Black River, St Elizabeth, were recently presented with care packages by members of Crawford Community Development Committee (CDC). The packages — which included sanitisers, toiletries, and groceries — were purchased by the Sandals Foundation from the Lasco Chin Foundation, through Sandals South Coast Resort team
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As the economic implications of the global COVID-19 pandemic begin to materialize, farmers who depend on the tourist industry to buy their produce, at-risk students who depend on PATH lunches for a daily meal, micro and small enterprises (MSEs) who face restricted hours and business closure, are among the vulnerable groups facing severe hardships. In response, the LASCO
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The LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) was recognised as the Clinton Global Initiative’s (CGI’s) first-ever commitment on crime and violence during a panel discussion at the 5th CGI Action Network Post-Disaster Recovery meeting in Puerto Rico last month. The meeting brought together more than 500 leaders from across the Caribbean, and 28 new Commitments to Action
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Outstanding students receive $125,000 in cash prizes KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Three inner-city Kingston entrepreneurs walked away with prize monies and goods during the LASCO Chin Foundation’s Sustainable Socio-economic Intervention (SSI) Entrepreneurship Programme graduation ceremony at the Spanish Court Hotel on Sunday, January 27, 2019. The three — Deidre Dixon from Ray Town, Kevon McLeish and Roland Andre Griffiths
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The LASCO ReLeaf Enviromental Awareness Programme (REAP) is an environmental initiative, which targets primary school level children with the goal of facilitating an increase in the children’s participation in environmentally friendly activities and increasing awareness of the lifestyle/environment correlation. The programme involves tree planting, recycling and energy conservation, gardening, anti-littering campaigns, plastic bottle collection as
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