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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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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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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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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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
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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