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Jean Lowrie-Chin (born December 5, 1951) is a public relations and communications practitioner in Kingston, Jamaica. She is the founder and managing director of PROComm (PRO Communications Limited) and also the founder-CEO of CCRP (Caribbean Community of Retired Persons)

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1. Education and career

2. Publications

3. Notable achievements

Education and Career

Lowrie-Chin was born in 1951 to her parents Maisie and Sydney Gopaulsingh. She attended the Alpha Academy High School for Girls, and then the University of West Indies from 1970-73, graduating with a BA (Hons) in Literature. She returned to UWI to complete an MA in literature in 1987.

She worked at the now defunct Jamaica Daily News as a journalist before teaching at Calabar High School. She left to become a PR Officer at Carifesta 76 (a Caribbean festival,) before she joined Dunlop Corbin Compton Advt as a PR Manager.

She finally launched her own company with her husband, Hubert Chin, in December 1978, naming it PRO Communications Ltd. She started an organization for retired persons in Jamaica named the Caribbean Community of Retired Persons (CCRP) April 2010.

Publications

As a writer she has been a columnist for the Jamaica Observer newspaper since 2001 and has published a book entitled Souldance in 2008, while authoring a blog at www.lowrie-chin.blogspot.com

Notable Achievements

She is a director of the following firms: First Caribbean International Bank Jamaica, Lasco Distributors Limited, Stella Maris Foundation (where she is the Immediate Past Chairman,) St George’s College and Food for the Poor Jamaica. She is also a Trustee of the Grants Pen Foundation Trust and the Madame Rose Leon Memorial Trust for the Women’s Political Caucus.

In 1984 she created Flair magazine for the Jamaica Gleaner and edited the publication for over three years.

Lowrie-Chin is a Justice of the Peace for the Parish of St. Andrew