![]() ![]() Imagine for a moment if you can, what Jamaica would have done without Stewart. It can't be by mere accident, wouldn't you agree, dear reader, that Butch Stewart has existed in this time, in this age when men seek for saviours but find they are few. The virtual hero-worship, which surrounds Butch Stewart, is firmly anchored in genuine admiration for his enormous skill as a marketer and entrepreneur extraordinaire, his depth of generosity bequeathed to him by his father, his own sense of honour and, importantly, his infectious joie de vivre. But there comes a time, a rare moment even, when honour must be given to whom honour is due. Men fawn over people with money, perhaps because they would be beneficiaries themselves of what largesse there may be. Let's poach terminology from sports and entertainment to say an incontrovertible truth - that Gordon Arthur Cyril Stewart, simply 'Butch' to his legions of admirers, is truly Jamaica's first international superstar of business. So much has been said and written of him that one can only have pity for the poor script-writer,who is assigned to pen the next citation to honour this compulsive over-achiever. ![]() This final prose should be our magnum opus, but we must admit that at last the interviewer has met his match, has finally run out of words to adequately tell the story of Gordon 'Butch' Stewart. ![]() And so we turn now to one of the most extraordinary of them all. Our children will read of them and need not look outside for examples that don't relate to the context in which they live and breathe and have their being. #PIXILLION IRFAN VIEW SERIES#Indeed, we have saved the best wine for the last, as this first series of wondrous tales of extraordinary Jamaicans, these living heroes of their times, comes to a close. ![]() What explains, for example, that an individual so accomplished would push himself so relentlessly beyond the borders of excellence, constantly shifting his own goal posts, until even his detractors are forced to ask 'what manner of man is this?' Gordon Butch Stewart did not inherit his wealth as many other white Jamaicans might have but accumulated his almost US$1 billion net worth through ingenuity and hard work. It is perhaps to God or science that we will have to turn to come to an understanding of the deep mysteries and the unfathomable motivation behind the modern day phenomenon that is Gordon 'Butch' Stewart of Jamaica. ![]()
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