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Gordon Arthur Cyril "Butch" Stewart OJ CD (6 July 1941 – 4 January 2021) was a Jamaican hotelier and businessman. He was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and The Jamaica Observer.
In 1981 Gordon "Butch" Stewart purchased an old hotel (the Bay Roc Hotel) on one of Montego Bay's largest beaches, despite having no hotel experience and opened it as Sandals Montego Bay. [7] In 1984, Sandals launched the Caribbean's first swim-up bar at its Montego Bay Resort in Jamaica. [8]
Gordon “Butch” Stewart (1941-2021) was the businessperson who founded and owned Beaches Resorts. Adam Stewart (1981-), the son of Gordon “Butch” Stewart, is the Executive Chairman of Sandals Resorts International (SRI). Gebhard Rainer stepped down as CEO in 2024. [6]
Stewart was born on January 27, 1981, in Kingston, Jamaica, the same year that his father, Gordon "Butch" Stewart purchased his first hotel and launched the Sandals Resorts chain. Stewart was raised in Jamaica. He attended high school at St. Andrew's School in Boca Raton where he met his late wife, Jill. [13]
The Jamaica Observer is a daily newspaper published in Kingston, Jamaica. The publication was owned by Butch Stewart (now deceased), who chartered the paper in January 1993 as a competitor to Jamaica's oldest daily paper, The Gleaner. Its founding editor is Desmond Allen who is its executive editor – operations. [1]
Volusia County Schools hired 54 international teachers for the 2023-24 school year. Christal Stewart, from Jamaica teaches at Campbell Middle School.
The airline was established in 1973 as Jamaica Air Taxi, and later operated as Trans-Jamaican Airlines until it was taken over by business man Gordon "Butch" Stewart, who also controlled Air Jamaica in 1994. [2] When Air Jamaica was renationalized in December 2004, responsibility for Air Jamaica Express remained with Stewart and his organization.
Butch Stewart (1941–2021), businessman, founder of Sandals Resorts and Beaches Resorts; White Yardie, stage name of Harry Gregory, British comedian and social media personality; Cicely Williams (1893–1992), medical researcher, discoverer of kwashiorkor; Jenna Wolfe (b. 1974), American journalist born in Jamaica and raised in Haiti