Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and Gordon “Butch” Stewart.
Late reggae pioneer Frederick “Toots” Hibbert and business mogul Gordon “Butch” Stewart will be posthumously honoured with the Keys to the City of Kingston by the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC).
Deputy Mayor, Councillor Winston Ennis, said that the presentations will be made in February following the passage of the necessary resolutions.
“The City of Kingston has lost one of Jamaica’s greatest and most successful sons in Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart at the start of this year.
“The Administration intends to honour his memory and that of the late Frederick ‘Toots’ Hibbert by posthumously presenting both with the Keys to the City of Kingston,” he noted.
From the travel, tourism, hospitality and airline industries he influenced, condolenses poured in from around the globe for Gordon “Butch” Stewart, who died last Monday in Miami. He was 79 years old.
Community Tourism Mourns
Testimonies to the great life that was Gordon “Butch” Stewart continue to pour in after his passing on Monday. Butch and Sandals Resorts are synonymous with all-inclusive travel, but perhaps even more so, he leaves a legacy of philanthropy and kindness.
The Founder and President of Countrystyle Community Tourism Network/Villages as Businesses, Diana McIntyre-Pike, O.D., shares her thoughts, experiences, and feelings on the passing of travel and tourism stalwart Gordon “Butch” Stewart.
Butch was the founder, owner, and chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts, and their parent company Sandals Resorts International.
He passed on Monday, January 4, 2021, at the age of 79.
Remembering Gordon âButchâ Stewart, Founder of Sandals Resorts
Lisa Ellen Niver, M.A. Education, is a science teacher and an award-winning travel expert who has explored 101 countries and six continents. She sailed the seven seas by cruise ship for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. Find her talking travel at KTLA TV and in her We Said Go Travel videos with over one and a quarter million views (1,250,000) on her YouTube channel. She is the founder of We Said Go Travel which is read in 235 countries, named #3 on the top 1000 Travel Blogs and the top female travel blogger 3 times in 2019. She has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and has over 160,000 followers across social media. Niver is a judge for the Gracies Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media and also ran fifteen travel competitions publishing over 2500 writers and photographers from 75 countries on her own site, We Said Go Travel.