Hedonism II Current Staff

Kevin Levee, General Manager
Lorna Clarke, Hotel Manager
Michael Asemota, Night Manager
Nichel Lindsay, Entertainment Manager
Jeffrey Johnson, Food and Beverage Manager
Sonia Williamson, Bar Manager
Marcia Cole, Spa Manager
Raymond Cunningham, Grounds Manager
Delano Miller, Sales Manager
Steven Pottinger, PR & Social Media Manager
Michelle LaPorteWeb Mistress
Jermaine Peterkin, Maintenance Manager
Beverly Beckford, Front Office Manager
Amri Freeman, Trainee Manager
Crafton Clarke, Watersports Manager
Sophia Haughton, Guest Relations Manager
Carlene Allwood, EH&S Manager (Environmental Health & Safety Manager)
Kenneth Randall, Bell Captain
Lenford Mason, Transportation Manager
Jenivieve Hibbert, Asst. Executive Housekeeper
Diane Wade, Financial Controller
Ray Robinson, Dining Room Manager

Longest Serving Employees of Hedonism II

 

SuperClubs® and Hedonism II® Chronology

1943 Abe Issa acquires hotel in Kingston

1949 Abe Issa builds Tower Isle Hotel, Ocho Rios – the first tourist hotel on Jamaica’s North Coast

1973 P.J. Patterson (then Minister of Tourism) approaches John Issa to develop hotel in Negril

1974 John Issa conceives and develops Negril Beach Village for the Jamaican government

1975 Frank Rance joins Issa Hotels as VP Sales & Administration, Runaway Bay Hotel

1976 Negril Beach Village opens under Issa management

1976 Rance moved to Negril Beach Village as General Manager

1976 – 1977 Rance institutes first nude beach in Jamaica

1976 – 1977 Negril Beach Village exceeds projected income by wide margin

1977 Issa Hotels converts lease of Runaway Bay Hotel to management contract due to national unrest

Late 1977 Rance leaves Negril Beach Village

1978 Jamaican government take over operation and management of Negril Beach Village

1977 – 1978 Rance consults with Issa on changing Tower Isle to “couples only” concept

1978 Couples opened – Tony Ferrari named General Manager

1981 SuperClubs leases Negril Beach Village from the Jamaican government

1981 SuperClubs changes Negril Beach Village name to Hedonism II and gets purchase option on resort

1980s John Issa and SuperCLubs separate from Issa Hotels

1989 SuperClubs exercises purchase option and buys Hedonism II

1990 SuperClubs builds first Grand Lido in Negril

1990 – 2001 SuperClubs continues to expand, with additional resorts in Jamaica – Grand Lido Braco, Grand Lido Sans Souci, Breezes Montego Bay, Breezes Golf and Beach Resort (originally named “Jamaica Jamaica”); the Bahamas – with Breezes Bahamas; Breezes Costa Do Sauipe in Brazil; and the planned Grand Lido St. Kitts, and four resorts in Cuba; Breezes Curacao planned

1996 SuperClubs celebrated its twentieth anniversary

2001 Hedonism II celebrated twentieth anniversary (First Week in November,2001)

2001 SuperClubs claunched a new family oriented resort theme – Starfish Resorts – with Trelawny Beach
Resort in Falmouth renovated and re-launched as Starfish Trelawny Beach Resort, an affiliated resort to SuperClubs