Five weeks af­ter Garvin Med­era’s de­par­ture from the role of CEO of Caribbean Air­lines Ltd (CAL), Dig­i­cel has an­nounced his ap­point­ment as the com­pa­ny’s CEO for the At­lantic re­gion.

The At­lantic re­gion is re­spon­si­ble for the com­pa­ny’s op­er­a­tions in Turks & Caicos, Cay­man Is­lands and Bermu­da.

In a re­lease yes­ter­day, Dig­i­cel hailed Med­era’s re­turn to the com­pa­ny, stat­ing it was “a sig­nif­i­cant mile­stone in Dig­i­cel’s on­go­ing trans­for­ma­tion and a reaf­fir­ma­tion of our com­mit­ment to ex­cep­tion­al lead­er­ship and ser­vice.”

Dig­i­cel ex­plained that Med­era had played a sig­nif­i­cant role while pre­vi­ous­ly at the telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions com­pa­ny, as the re­lease said he con­tributed to the de­vel­op­ment of the com­pa­ny’s pi­o­neer­ing tele­com and fi­bre net­works across the re­gion.

The com­pa­ny al­so stat­ed that his time as chair­man of the Dig­i­cel Foun­da­tion in Trinidad & To­ba­go helped shape his com­mit­ment to mean­ing­ful com­mu­ni­ty con­nec­tion.

Med­era joined CAL af­ter re­sign­ing from his job as CEO of Dig­i­cel Play in the fourth quar­ter of 2017.

Marce­lo Catal­do, Group CEO of Dig­i­cel, said, “Garvin’s re­turn to Dig­i­cel is both a pro­fes­sion­al re­union and a pow­er­ful sig­nal of our fu­ture. He un­der­stands our mis­sion at its core, con­nect­ing com­mu­ni­ties through ser­vice, trust, and re­li­a­bil­i­ty. As Dig­i­cel con­tin­ues to trans­form, his blend of re­gion­al in­sight and glob­al lead­er­ship will help us ac­cel­er­ate our next chap­ter with clar­i­ty and am­bi­tion.”

Med­era said, “Re­turn­ing to Dig­i­cel feels both mean­ing­ful and mo­ti­vat­ing. This is where I first learned the true weight of con­nect­ing peo­ple, not just through tech­nol­o­gy, but through ser­vice. I look for­ward to work­ing with this ex­cep­tion­al team to shape the next era of con­nec­tiv­i­ty for our cus­tomers and com­mu­ni­ties.”

Dig­i­cel’s chief peo­ple of­fi­cer, Ter­ry Arnold added, “At Dig­i­cel, our trans­for­ma­tion is dri­ven by lead­ers who com­bine re­gion­al depth with world-class ex­e­cu­tion. Garvin re­flects that bal­ance. Hav­ing start­ed his ca­reer with us, he now re­turns with a wealth of ex­pe­ri­ence to strength­en teams, el­e­vate per­for­mance, and build the next gen­er­a­tion of lead­er­ship across the At­lantic re­gion.”

Dig­i­cel al­so ac­knowl­edged his work at CAL in the re­lease, stat­ing, “In his most re­cent role as CEO of Caribbean Air­lines, Garvin led a com­plex trans­for­ma­tion that de­liv­ered op­er­a­tional prof­itabil­i­ty, dig­i­tal mod­erni­sa­tion, and a re­newed cus­tomer fo­cus. His lead­er­ship bal­anced per­for­mance with pur­pose, a phi­los­o­phy that aligns seam­less­ly with Dig­i­cel’s am­bi­tion to el­e­vate cus­tomer ex­pe­ri­ence across every mar­ket we serve.”

Med­era was one of sev­er­al ex­ec­u­tive de­par­tures from Caribbean Air­lines in the past six months.

Last week, Caribbean Air­lines was named as the In­ter­na­tion­al­ly Known … T&T Owned Com­pa­ny of the Year at the T&T Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce’s Cham­pi­ons of Busi­ness Awards Gala 2025.

At the event last week, CAL chair Rey­na Kow­lessar said in­ter­views and as­sess­ments were still be­ing done con­cern­ing the fill­ing of lead­er­ship roles at the air­line.