He was demoted from his post as CEO last week and now he's been fired. BTL employees today received a terse employee bulletin which said, "the employment of Gaspar Aguilar Head of Finance and Human Resources, has today been terminated for good and sufficient cause." That's it, a 25-year career at BTL over in just about 25 words.
So what is "good and sufficient cause"? Well there's no information from the Ashcroft and Government controlled Executive Committee of the Board of Directors which took the decision, but we do know that Aguilar was no favorite of Michael Ashcroft. Specifically, in February Aguilar swore to an affidavit which certainly did not endear him to Ashcroft. It spoke openly and critically of the tenure of Ashcroft's management of BTL and disclosed details of management contracts of both the Ashcroft and Prosser regimes. Of course in February, Ashcroft's return to power may not have been as likely as subsequent events have shown it to be. Whatever the case, ever since Ashcroft's resumption of power, Aguilar should have known that he was in the firing line.
Now with this final scene, in the last year the trajectory of Aguilar's career has taken a sharp swing. In February the Prime Minister entertained his group, Sunrise Limited as a potential buyer for BTL, then he asked him to serve on the Board of Directors, and later the Prime Minister asked him to go to Cancun with Minister Ralph Fonseca to deliver a video deposition for Government's Miami Attorneys, then he brought BTL employees back into work after the national telecommunications shut down in April, and managed BTL through the most fractious time in its history.
It certainly has been an eventful year but all that, it appears, did not earn Aguilar the protection that he might have thought it would, and tonight, BTL's most senior manager is history. The company continues to be run by its executive committee and four managers who take up Aguilar's posts and report to that committee.
