Top six finalists receive surprise promotion In a distinguished celebration of service and excellence, the LASCO Chin Foundation and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) highlighted some of the finest police officers committed to community safety and development at the Saluting Our Heroes Awards event. Held today (on Friday, October 25) at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel […]

In a significant step toward empowering young entrepreneurs, micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and communities to foster urban innovations, the LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) launched its Entrepreneurship Hub that will house The Trust for the Americas’ DIA Urban Lab. Hosted on Wednesday, October 2, at the newly renovated LCF facility located at 31 Red […]

The LASCO Chin Foundation and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) are set to honour the outstanding service of our police officers. The prestigious event, now in its 24th year, will take place on Friday, October 25, 2024, at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel under the theme, ‘Transforming the Present, Securing the Future’.   This year’s awards […]

In a celebration marked by enthusiasm and pride, The LASCO Chin Foundation, The Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY), and the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC) held its annual Teacher and Principal of the Year Awards, bringing together outstanding educators from various parts of the island to the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. Under the theme, […]

Abigail James, a nurse of the Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth was on Saturday crowned the 2024-2025 Nurse of the Year during the annual LASCO Chin Foundation and Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) Awards. The ceremony was held at the Summit Lifestyle and Business Campus (formerly Knutsford Court Hotel). James is overjoyed to take […]

In a celebration of educational excellence, the LASCO Chin Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) and the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), is set to honour nine outstanding educators at the LASCO/MoEY/JTC 2023 Principal and Teacher of the Year Awards on December 5. The awards ceremony, which has been a tradition […]

In a grand celebration of educational excellence, the LASCO Chin Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Youth (MoEY) and the Jamaica Teaching Council (JTC), is set to honour nine outstanding educators at the LASCO/MoEY/JTC 2023 Principal and Teacher of the Year Awards on Tuesday, December 5, 2023. The prestigious awards ceremony, which […]

The annual LASCO / Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) Police of the Year Award was held on Friday, October 20, and this year, the LASCO Chairman’s Award was presented to Area 5’s Constable Jayann Raymond. Six finalists were announced for the Chairman’s Award, the highest honour of the LASCO/JCF Saluting Our Heroes Awards. Constable Raymond, who […]

CONSTABLE Jayann Raymond’s focus on getting young people who are prone to conflict to better manage their emotions and actions led to her being crowned top cop for the year 2023. A mother of two boys, Raymond, who has been a cop for eight years, walked proudly to the stage to accept the trophy during […]

The LASCO Chin Foundation and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) have officially unveiled the six finalists for the prestigious Chairman’s Award, the highest accolade within the LASCO/JCF Saluting Our Heroes Awards. The finalists represent all geographical regions and operations under the JCF umbrella and have demonstrated exceptional performance, professionalism and community involvement. The Chairman’s Award […]

The LASCO Chin Foundation and the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) announced the six finalists for the Chairman’s Award, the highest honour of the LASCO/JCF Saluting Our Heroes Awards. The awards ceremony, which will recognise 156 officers for their exemplary service and dedication to Jamaica and its communities, will take place on October 20, 2023 at […]

Chairman of LASCO Affiliated Companies James Rawle (right) and President of the Nurses Association of Jamaica, Patsy Edwards Henry (centre), present a cheque for $100,000 to Nursing Student of the Year 2023, Bobbie-Ann Collins, at an awards ceremony held recently at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. The LASCO Chin Foundation and the Nurses […]

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Lascelles Chin was hailed as the little country boy who overcame poverty and illness to build an impressive corporate empire while generously donating to public servants who helped to make his success possible at a thanksgiving service for his life in Kingston. Hundreds, including Governor-general Sir Patrick Allen, Prime Minister Andrew Holness and Opposition Leader […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica – There was an outpouring of love at the funeral service for founder and executive chairman of the Lasco Group of Companies, Lascelles Chin at the Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity on Wednesday. Chin died last month in Florida, United States surrounded by family. He was 86. Prime Minister Andrew Holness hailed […]

    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 […]

      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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hosts successful fundraising gala in Miramar KINGSTON, JAMAICA: The recently launched LASCO Chin Foundation has identified Mountain View Primary and Clan Carthy High schools in east Kingston as the first beneficiaries of its Sustainable Socio-Economic Intervention (SSI) Model©.  Parents living in Mountain View and their children, who attend Clan Carthy High, are set to benefit from […]

LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) began operations in June 2018 with the mission to encourage early intervention for Jamaica’s at-risk youths using the Sustainable Socio-Economic Intervention (SSI) Model©. Within the first month, the LCF rolled out its two-phased SSI Entrepreneurship Programme that enables at-risk youths to earn income immediately while providing them a framework to create […]

Consul General Oliver Mair welcomed LASCO Chin Foundation Chairman the Honourable Lascelles A. Chin and the Foundation’s CEO Prof Rosalea Hamilton to the Consulate General of Jamaica in Miami Florida in November 2018. Hon Chin met with the staff and members of the diaspora who came out to utilise the services of the office. The […]

LCF participated and supported the South Florida Chapter Westwood Girls Association (SFCWOGA) Human Trafficking Panel Discussion on November 15, 2018. The Forum engaged approximately 60 South Florida residents in a discussion highlighting the issues of Human Trafficking in both Jamaica and Florida and how NGOs, CSOs and Corporate Foundations through their work can seek to […]

Supports fundraising for LASCO Chin Foundation KINGSTON, JAMAICA: Former Prime Minister of Jamaica, the Most Honourable P.J. Patterson QC, will be the keynote speaker at the LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) Inaugural Benefit Gala in Florida. The statesman will be in Miramar, at the Miramar Cultural Center on Sunday, November 18, 2018, reflecting on decades at […]

LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) was officially unveiled at a press breakfast on Thursday, September 20, 2018 at the Terra Nova All-Suites Hotel Venetian Suite. Chairman of the Foundation, Founder and Executive Chairman of the LASCO Affiliated Companies Lascelles Chin in his remarks said it was always his life’s dream to help Jamaica. “This Foundation will […]

LASCO Chin Foundation (LCF) was officially launched at a press breakfast on Thursday at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel’s Venetian Suite. Chairman of the foundation, founder and executive chairman of the LASCO Affiliated Companies Lascelles A Chin told the launch that it was always his life’s dream to help Jamaica. “This foundation will create a […]

Minister of National Security, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang, has hailed the establishment of the LASCO Chin Foundation, which will work with the police in engaging vulnerable youth in order to steer them away from crime. He said that the Government welcomes partnerships that will help to curtail crime and violence in the society. Mr. Chang […]