Eastern loses an icon Saturday 27 February 2021 THE EDITOR: Over two decades ago, we were engaged in a ceremonial “topping off” ceremony to signal the completion of the roof at the picturesque Eastern Credit Union’s La Joya facility in St Joseph. Representing then prime minister ANR Robinson was the parliamentarian attached to the Prime Minister’s Office, Margaret Hector and on that afternoon we were looking forward anxiously to the commissioning event later in the year with the attendance of the prime minister and guest speaker Prof Rex Nettleford, a revered Caribbean intellectual based at the UWI campus in Jamaica.