Stoppi, Maurice

Born in the East-end of London, England just prior to WW2, he escaped the horrors of the German blitz by being part of the government evacuation scheme. With hardly any formal education, he began working at age 16 and studied at night. By his mid-twenties he had been successful in London in qualifying as a chartered quantity surveyor. Shortly thereafter he migrated to the then colonial island of Jamaica where then, and subsequently after the island's independence in 1962, he became an entrenched feature of the Jamaican construction industry.