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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Air­line Pi­lots As­so­ci­a­tion (TTAL­PA) con­vened an ur­gent meet­ing at 3 pm yes­ter­day fol­low­ing re­ports that Caribbean Air­lines’ (CAL) Chief Ex­ec­u­tive Of­fi­cer, Garvin Med­era, part­ed ways with the com­pa­ny.

Guardian Me­dia on Fri­day re­port­ed that Med­era and CAL en­tered in­to a mu­tu­al sep­a­ra­tion agree­ment sub­ject to a non-dis­clo­sure clause. The com­pa­ny’s Chief Op­er­a­tions Of­fi­cer, Nir­mala Ra­mai, has since been ap­point­ed act­ing CEO.

Ra­mai had been act­ing as Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer af­ter Varuna Kuars­ingh was sent on leave at the end of Au­gust. CAL al­so ter­mi­nat­ed its Ex­ec­u­tive Man­ag­er for Fi­nance, Kern Gar­diner, on Sep­tem­ber 16, days be­fore his pro­ba­tion had end­ed.