Top executives at telecoms firm Digicel are in line to leave the company as it pushes ahead with plans to centralise back room management in the Caribbean as part of its Digicel 2030 review.

Insiders at other telecoms firms on the island said they had heard a management clear-out was in the offing.

But Robin Seale, CEO of Digicel, said: “We made a statement on Digicel 2030, some senior management are leaving but not due to Digicel 2030, just normal attrition.”

And he added that the vacant posts would be refilled.

Digicel refused to say who or how many senior staff were set to leave the Bermuda operation.

But industry insiders said that at least four top staff were due to leave the telecoms provider.

A spokeswoman at the company’s Jamaican regional HQ said that, in line with the previously announced Digicel 2030 “global transformation programme”, around 25 per cent of the firm’s staff worldwide would go in the next 18 months.

She added: “The first step in this was the offer of an enhanced voluntary separation programme to all staff across the globe.

“As such, some of our Bermuda staff took up the offer on the enhanced voluntary separation programme.

“We are very grateful to them for their service to Digicel and wish them all the very best for the future.”

A spokeswoman for Digicel Bermuda declined to comment and referred The Royal Gazette to February’s announcement of the cutbacks as part of Digicel 2030.

The Digicel 2030 plan proposed “regional hubs” — two in the Caribbean and two in the Pacific — to supply back office centralised functions and delivering shared services.

The spokeswoman said that would enable staff in Digicel’s 31 markets to focus on sales and better service delivery.

Digicel Bermuda announced at the end of April that the first set of staff had left the company as part of the redundancy programme, but did not release numbers.

Digicel’s statement at the time did not give a number for its global workforce, but figures released before its flotation bid two years ago showed it had 6,334 permanent staff and a further 989 on temporary contracts around the world.

Using these figures, more than 1,500 jobs could go within the next 18 months.

Bermuda-based Digicel hired consultants last December to help it cut its $6.5 billion debt, described by analysts as “unsustainable”.