When Stabroek Business met with 85-year-old Bernard ‘Bonnie’ Young at Henrietta on the Essequibo Coast last weekend he was ‘chilling’ in his fifth floor apartment at the Arabian Atlantic Hotel looking out into the ocean from which it borrowed its name. It appeared to be a fitting pastime for a man in his advanced years, who had spent more than six decades as one of Essequibo’s leading entrepreneurs in the hotel industry.
