The Sandals ‘army’ versus the might of Melissa

To the hotel empire that he built, the late Gordon “Butch” Stewart has bequeathed a fighting son, every bit as patriotic and determined and every inch of him the visionary he was.

In probably his most comprehensive interview on local soil, Adam Stewart, the young executive chairman of multiple award-winning Sandals Resorts International (SRI), sat with Money Media’s Kalilah Reynolds recently and gave Jamaicans an all-embracing view of the man who helms the Caribbean’s leading resort chain.

Among the areas he covered, Stewart gave an account of the battle he and his team — ‘the army’ he likes to call them — waged with the mightiest storm Jamaica has faced, Hurricane Melissa, which threw her merciless Category 5 winds at south- and north-western Jamaica last October, leaving devastation yet to be adequately described.