{"id":2350,"date":"2023-05-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/?p=2350"},"modified":"2026-08-17T02:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T02:26:23","slug":"profile-lascelles-chin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/trust-profiles\/profile-lascelles-chin\/","title":{"rendered":"Lascelles Chin, Wolmer\u2019s old boy, founder of LASCO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2080097-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lascelles Chin\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Jamaica Observer of 28 May 2023 reported that Lascelles Chin, founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies and a Wolmer\u2019s old boy, had died in Florida the previous Saturday night, aged 86, surrounded by family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The paper quoted a Wolmer\u2019s statement: he rose \u201cfrom a small importer of black pepper, through Chairman and Managing Director of Henkel Jamaica, to become the founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies.\u201d The same release said LASCO had become \u201ca household name\u201d and that \u201cdespite his out-sized success, Las never forgot his humble roots.\u201d The statement placed his beginnings in Bog Walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LASCO\u2019s own tribute, by James Rawle, records that he \u201cattended the Wolmer\u2019s High School for Boys.\u201d JIS, covering his induction into the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica Hall of Fame, called him founder and executive chairman of the LASCO companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list wt-sources\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamaicaobserver.com\/2023\/05\/28\/wolmers-school-community-pays-tribute-to-lascelles-chin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica Observer, 28 May 2023, \u201cWolmer\u2019s school community pays tribute to Lascelles Chin\u201d<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/lascojamaica.com\/lascelless-chin-tribute\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LASCO, James Rawle tribute<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/jis.gov.jm\/lascelles-chin-psoj-hall-of-fame-inductee\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JIS, \u201cLascelles Chin, PSOJ Hall of Fame Inductee\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jamaica Observer of 28 May 2023 reported that Lascelles Chin, founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies and a Wolmer\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trust-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2350\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wolmers.org\/trust\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}