Hotelier Gordon “Butch” Stewart dies

Jamaican-born hotelier and founder of Sandals Resorts International Gordon “Butch” Stewart passed away on Monday evening. He was 79.

Stewart was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1941. He grew up on the island, where he got the nickname “Butch” after being called it by an American sailor.

He became one of the most successful Jamaican businessmen ever, running a company worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Stewart is also the owner and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, as well as The ATL Group and its subsidiaries Appliance Traders and the Jamaica Observer.

He passed away in the USA while receiving treatment for an illness. Butch is survived by his wife, Cheryl, children Brian, Bobby, Adam, Jaime, Sabrina, Gordon, and Kelly; grandchildren Aston, Sloane, Camden, Penelope-Sky, Isla, Finley, Max, Ben, Zak, Sophie, Annie and Emma; and great-grandchildren Jackson, Riley, Emmy and Willow.

In an Instagram post, Adam remembers his father.