The CEO and President of Bermuda Broadcasting Company has left the TV and radio station.

Question marks hang over the sudden departure of Bill Craig, with unconfirmed reports he was escorted off the premises and his office locks were changed.

Yesterday, BBC board chairman Fernance Perry would only say Mr. Craig had "handed in his resignation".

However, he later admitted: "I was asked to terminate his job, but I would rather leave it at that".

A source told The Royal Gazette four BBC directors escorted Mr. Craig from the Devonshire studios on Monday and that the locks on his office were changed and his company cell phone confiscated.

The company insider said that Mr. Craig had only been in the job four months and that advertising was picking up and plans to digitise the station's broadcasts were progressing.

Others however, say there were confrontations with the Bermuda Industrial Union over the reassignment of staff and duties.

Yesterday, when asked if Mr. Craig had been fired, Mr. Perry said: "I don't want to use that term, but he had the option of resigning.

"It's just something which didn't work out and he is no longer with ZBM and BBC, that's all there is to it.

"The directors just did what they had to do. We don't know what he has in mind now. He will have to go back to Canada I presume, unless Immigration allows him to stay."

Mr. Perry said: "We just didn't see eye to eye and that's it."

Asked who was going to replace him, Mr. Perry said: "I don't have anybody in mind. We just have to advertise for somebody and hopefully we can get somebody local and that's it."

Mr. Craig was unavailable for comment yesterday.