Palm Beach Hotel → Buccaneer Beach Hotel → U.W.I. Western Jamaica Campus Residence → Buccaneer Beach Hotel
Palm Beach Hotel, 7 Kent Ave.
- The hotel was officially opened January 23, 1971. The hotel, costing $400,000 - $500,000, was built by Montego Bay businessman Mr. Leslie Hew. Architect was Mr. James Mitchell. It had 48 double rooms. It was entirely sound proof, because of its proximity to the airport. And centrally air conditioned.
- The last Gleaner mention of the Palm Beach Hotel is 1979.
- The first Gleaner mention of the Buccaneer Hotel is December 1982.
- The Buccaneer Beach Hotel, managed by Mr. Trevor Hamilton, owes J$274,656.40 in hotel room taxes for the period January-December 1990.
- In 1995, the hotel, owned by New York based attorney-at-law Courtenay Hamilton, sues Paradise Beach Resort and Dennis Morgan for the demolition of the hotel's beach bar and grill known as Dead End Bar. See clipping.
- In July 2005 the hotel's managing director, 58 year-old Sidique Bushay Mohamed was arrested. He was a fugitive from the United States justice system.
- The last Gleaner mention is July 2006.
- Their 2007 website in archive.org, when it had 50 rooms.
- At some point before 2011 another floor was added.
- A description of the hotel at Jamaica Scene.
- The hotel then became the U.W.I. Mona: Western Jamaica Campus: Hall of Residence.
- The building can be seen in this 2019 video from a dashboard camera as a car was being driven up and down Kent Ave. Hotel is best seen at 3:50-4:08.
- Google Streets in November 2021 (see photo below) finds it back to being a hotel.
