54 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN APRIL 2021 20 stores and raised my first million dollars that way. That started my nest egg. I was about 34 years old and it elevated me to get involved in security.” Telecom Systems, the company Chin founded in 1982, pioneered security sales and services in Trinidad and Tobago. Today, it’s one of the nation’s largest and longest serving security firms, still considered to be among the leading security organizations in the twin-island republic. “The whole reason being that kids would break into my arcade machines and steal the tokens,” Chin admits with a laugh. “I needed a security guard, so I developed a company around that idea.” Looking back at the defining moments of Chin’s career, a clear pattern emerges: the problems he set out to solve had to be personal. In hindsight, it’s easy to see that each of the companies now operating under the Dachin banner were, at
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