Amandala learned this evening that Oceana in Belize has axed its administrative director – Floyd Neal, five months after Neal learned that his job was being advertised on the internet.

Neal had temporarily held over at the Belize office after the departure of Audrey Matura-Shepherd as Vice President of Oceana in Belize last August.

At the time, Alex Muñoz, Vice President for Oceana in South America, who had assumed responsibility for the Belize office and who was leading the search for a replacement for Matura-Shepherd, dismissed suggestions that the existing staff—deemed loyalists to Matura-Shepherd—would have been imminently replaced.

Muñoz told us, though, that the new office leader will have the opportunity to decide what staff they need; however, he suggested that more staff would be added to the Belize office. He also told us that it is not true that the existing staff will be removed.

Today, Amandala also confirmed that a new office head will be imminently announced. One source tells us that former Channel 5 reporter Janelle Chanona, who was at the August press conference with Muñoz, has been named as the replacement due to take office next week.

Oceana had announced that the new head would be a country director, and the second in command would be the office administrator – an announcement which raised concerns since it was clear, at the time of the announcement, that Neal could eventually be declared redundant.

Amandala understands that this is just what happened today, when Neal was called and told that Oceana would no longer need his services.

Munoz had told the press that the new office administrator would be given more responsibility than the administrative director has had.

Neal had served Oceana in that capacity since March 2011.

Former Oceana VP Matura-Shepherd, who resigned after a schism over public comments which angered the LGBT community, told us that Neal’s dismissal today was “unceremonious”— but, she said, it is “their loss.”