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You are wrong, KD - Butch - Sandals chairman denies excess utility services claim
published: Wednesday | January 10, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody Ar6jv="true">
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart - File
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, the chairman of Sandals Resorts International, has strongly denied any intention on the part of his company to use what was characterised as "excess utility services capacity" at the Sandals Whitehouse <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">hotel</SPAN> for the benefit of an adjoining hotel which he had earlier intended to construct.
Mr. Stewart described as "absolutely inaccurate", claims by K.D. Knight, a government member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), that this was the rationale behind certain design specifications for some facilities at the Whitehouse property. "You could not be further from the truth!" Mr. Stewart asserted in a robust response to Mr. Knight's accusation.
Outlining his theory, Mr. Knight listed several features of the Sandals Whitehouse property - the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">air-conditioning </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">system</SPAN>, the laundry and the standby generator - which he claimed "could have serviced the hotel you contemplated building".
In his last appearance before the PAC, Mr. Stewart disclosed that he had contemplated building a second hotel in proximity to the controversial Sandals property, constructed under a <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">joint </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">venture </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">agreement</SPAN> with the Government.
That was some time before the controversy broke regarding t
You are wrong, KD - Butch - Sandals chairman denies excess utility services claim
published: Wednesday | January 10, 2007 <DIV class=KonaBody Ar6jv="true">
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart - File
Gordon 'Butch' Stewart, the chairman of Sandals Resorts International, has strongly denied any intention on the part of his company to use what was characterised as "excess utility services capacity" at the Sandals Whitehouse <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 700; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">hotel</SPAN> for the benefit of an adjoining hotel which he had earlier intended to construct.
Mr. Stewart described as "absolutely inaccurate", claims by K.D. Knight, a government member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), that this was the rationale behind certain design specifications for some facilities at the Whitehouse property. "You could not be further from the truth!" Mr. Stewart asserted in a robust response to Mr. Knight's accusation.
Outlining his theory, Mr. Knight listed several features of the Sandals Whitehouse property - the <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">air-conditioning </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">system</SPAN>, the laundry and the standby generator - which he claimed "could have serviced the hotel you contemplated building".
In his last appearance before the PAC, Mr. Stewart disclosed that he had contemplated building a second hotel in proximity to the controversial Sandals property, constructed under a <SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">joint </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">venture </SPAN><SPAN class=kLink style="FONT-WEIGHT: 400; COLOR: orange! important; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; POSITION: relative">agreement</SPAN> with the Government.
That was some time before the controversy broke regarding t
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