Business View Caribbean | March 2019

34 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN MARCH 2019 locked up and left to the mercy of the elements. “The family managed to reopen the hotel on several occasions when the boundary receded past the hotel but the expense of cleaning, rehiring staff, and marketing the hotel soon became too much. The hotel was closed in 2005 and its future remained uncertain. In 2016, the new Board decided that several years of inactivity meant that it was time again to breathe life back into the property. With the assistance of the government, and the backing of the family, the hotel reopened its pool side bar and restaurant facilities and a few newly renovated rooms to overwhelming support from the locals and long-time visitors to the island. The family plans to monitor the activity with the possibility of opening more rooms in the near future.” Today, MSO operates from its main location in Brades, and early last year it bought a property in Salem where it opened a retail store in December. This second outlet sells a combination of hardware, wholesale food stuff, furniture and appliances, and pictured Soufriere Hills Volcano October 2009