CSA People: Michael Jarrett

In praise of Michael Jarrett

I first met Michael Jarrett in October 1983… 37 years ago. It was a CSA AGM held in San Juan. A time when all of us were young and eager.

A youthful Luddy Stewart was President and was ably supported by a General Council of well-known Caribbean shipping executives. (I had the honor to write about that AGM several years after under the heading “Coming Full Circle” for Caribbean Maritime magazine no.16…October 2012.

Michael Jarrett sat at that General Council table and along with his colleague Tony Gambrill he ensured that the happenings in CSA were reaching all of the region’s print media. CSA was 12 years old at that time and it was still evolving to meet the changing needs of the industry while creating a platform upon which the voice of regional shipping could be heard. Michael Jarrett (Mike) was the thinker and driver of many of these events that gave CSA its recognition and from these early years onwards he quietly progressed the development of the CSA, taking ideas of the various Presidents he served and turning them into strong pillars upon which CSA grew.

I knew him first as a colleague then as a trusted friend whose calm and quiet persona belied a brain chiseled by his formal training in the print media business and a genuine love for the Caribbean maritime transport business.

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