Giving Back in Mothers name For Jamaica 155 million

[Sir X]

<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Lee-Chin giving $155 million for NCU nursing school</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>GARFIELD MYERS, Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau
Friday, September 08, 2006
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=365 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Chairman of AIC and NCB Michael Lee-Chin (left) looks on while Northern Caribbean University (NCU) President Dr Herbert Thompson and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller applaud at the announcement that Lee-Chin will be funding a $155-million nursing school at the university. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Arguing that it was social investment intended to help Mandeville realise its potential as a "great university town", chairman and CEO of AIC (Canada) Michael Lee-Chin yesterday announced a $155-million project for the building and equipping of a nursing school on the campus of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU).<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Hyacinth Chen School of Nursing - named in honour of Lee-Chin's mother, Hyacinth Chen - will cost $90 million and will be built on the eastern side of the NCU campus.
Work is expected to start in about three months on the 21,000 square-foot building and should last three months.<P class=StoryText align=justify>NCU officials said yesterday that once the work is completed, Lee Chin, who spent much of his early life in Mandeville, will commit another $65 million to equipping the complex, which will house 800 students. NCU already has a significant trainee nursing programme with about 400 students, half of whom are trained in Kingston.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Watched by a large gathering led by Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and members of his family including mother, father and brothers, Lee-Chin said his "gift" was motivated by a desire to "lead by example" in helping Jamaica achieve growth, development and prosperity and "its rightful place in the global society ."<P class=StoryText align=justify>He was also driven by a desire to pay back. He would not forget, he said, that when he was "down and out" as a university student in Canada, Jamaica "came to my rescue".<P class=StoryText align=justify>Using the example of his native Port Antonio, Lee- Chin said Jamaica had failed badly despite numerous natural advantages including geography and climate. Port Antonio, he noted, was the cradle of Jamaica's tourist industry - boasting in 1902, the Titchfield Hotel with 400 rooms. Yet today, there were fewer than 140 hotel rooms in the northeastern coastal town.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Lee-Chin, whose AIC group controls US$10 billion in assets and has majority ownership of Jamaica's largest bank, National Commercial Bank (NCB), claimed that to "embark on building a better Jamaica we have to embark on building town by town".<P class=StoryText align=justify>Residents of Mandeville, he suggested, should think about their "vision" for the town.<P class=StoryText align=justify>His own "vision", strengthened by the example and growth of the Seventh day Adventist-run NCU, was for a strong university base. Mandeville, he believed, had all the ingredients, including a "peaceful" environment for the growth and development of academia.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"Why can't we build a Princeton here, why can't we build a Cambridge here, why can't we build an Oxford.?" he asked to loud applause.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Earlier, Simpson Miller, in pointing to the urgent need for more nurses, thanked Lee-Chin and the NCU for their "partnership".<P class=StoryText align=justify>And in the context of complaints about the loss of ski

[Shatta]

RE: Giving Back in Mothers name For Jamaica 155 million

Visionaries are by nature giving.

Some people round here who are moving selfish because of short cuts and temptation would do well to remember that.

There is no short cut in this life and if it sounds too good to be true it normally is.

Respect Lee Chin for not selling out your black youths like some people round these parts.

You sir are a shining example in this age of get rich bucanneers.

respect

[Jawge]

RE: Giving Back in Mothers name For Jamaica 155 million

Yes lee Chin is asking some fundamental questions as

I would ask. Why can't our engineers build roads, repair railroads et al? Why can't we have our own Peles or Diegos in football? We do not love ourselves and if the talent doesn't come from certain quartes of the JAkan society then we believe that person is no good.. It's a start Mr.Chin but JA has a long way to go. Had Colin Powell or Uma Clarke stayed in JA we would never know their true potential. Yes Ras keep the fire burning.

[Karl]

RE: Giving Back in Mothers name For Jamaica 155 million

X (9/8/2006)<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Lee-Chin giving $155 million for NCU nursing school</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline></SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>GARFIELD MYERS, Editor-at-Large South/Central Bureau
Friday, September 08, 2006
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=365 align=center border=0><TBODY><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Chairman of AIC and NCB Michael Lee-Chin (left) looks on while Northern Caribbean University (NCU) President Dr Herbert Thompson and Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller applaud at the announcement that Lee-Chin will be funding a $155-million nursing school at the university. </SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>MANDEVILLE, Manchester - Arguing that it was social investment intended to help Mandeville realise its potential as a "great university town", chairman and CEO of AIC (Canada) Michael Lee-Chin yesterday announced a $155-million project for the building and equipping of a nursing school on the campus of the Northern Caribbean University (NCU).<P class=StoryText align=justify>The Hyacinth Chen School of Nursing - named in honour of Lee-Chin's mother, Hyacinth Chen - will cost $90 million and will be built on the eastern side of the NCU campus.
Work is expected to start in about three months on the 21,000 square-foot building and should last three months...<P class=StoryText align=justify>...<P class=StoryText align=justify>Earlier, Simpson Miller, in pointing to the urgent need for more nurses, thanked Lee-Chin and the NCU for their "partnership".<P class=StoryText align=justify>And in the context of complaints about the loss of skilled Jamaicans, not least nurses, the prime minister said the "time come when we must ensure that we train and educate our people for Jamaica as well as for export".<P class=StoryText align=justify>She argued that while Jamaican nurses were in demand worldwide, "perhaps we should see this as an opportunity ."
The prime minister paid special tribute to the Seventh-day Adventists for the development of the NCU, which she described as a "wonderful example of practical Christianity".