Days be­fore his pro­ba­tion­ary pe­ri­od was due to end, Kern Gar­diner’s con­tract at Caribbean Air­lines (CAL) was ter­mi­nat­ed. Gar­diner worked at the state air­line as the Ex­ec­u­tive Man­ag­er, Fi­nance. Ac­cord­ing to sources, Gar­diner was let go on Tues­day.

Be­fore his stint with Caribbean Air­lines, Gar­diner worked as a fi­nance man­ag­er at Her­itage Pe­tro­le­um. He cur­rent­ly sits on the Cen­tral Bank board as a di­rec­tor hav­ing been ap­point­ed ear­li­er this year.

Mes­sages to Gar­diner’s cell phone since Tues­day have gone unan­swered.

The move comes just weeks af­ter his su­pe­ri­or, Chief Fi­nan­cial Of­fi­cer Varuna Kuars­ingh, was sent on leave by the new CAL board, head­ed by Rey­na Kow­lessar. Guardian Me­dia un­der­stands Kuars­ingh’s sus­pen­sion has since been ex­tend­ed to Oc­to­ber 10th. Se­nior Cost and Fi­nan­cial Ac­count­ing Man­ag­er, Neera Ra­mai, has been act­ing as CFO in Kuars­ingh’s place.

On Au­gust 11th, Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar called for changes to be made at CAL. Cit­ing the com­pa­ny’s fail­ure to sub­mit au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for the past nine years, Per­sad-Bisses­sar said man­age­ment was fail­ing to do their jobs.

“Not one sin­gle route of Caribbean Air­lines is bring­ing a prof­it. But we are spend­ing mil­lions of dol­lars there. I am giv­ing the man­age­ment of Caribbean Air­lines two years max. They have to sort out the mess. Oth­er­wise, every­one there will have to look for a new job,” Per­sad-Bisses­sar said then.

Guardian Me­dia reached out to both the Prime Min­is­ter and Caribbean Air­lines for a com­ment yes­ter­day, but there was no re­sponse.