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the Governor's Office security apparatus is not compromised during the Governor's absence. The Constitution, as you know, provides Cayman that in the Governor's absence the Chief Secretary shall assume the manage functions of 0.A.G., and if the Chief Secretary, does not possess
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4. It is likely that a political pressure may continue to develop over the next few years for the elimination of the post of Chief Secretary. Despite the degree of anomaly in retaining a Chief Secretary under a ministerial system the post of Chief Secretary Anguilla is in the Constitution and I believe we are not alone in retaining have as such a post. If it proved, for one reason or another, desirable Po to appoint a local officer to be Chief Secretary it would be
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essential to appoint a British officer to be Financial Secretary.
5. I endorse the point you make in your last paragraph about isolation. In these tiny highly personal communities we should do what is possible to avoid the Governor becoming the only senior expatriate administrator for as long as possible.
6. On the paper as a whole I was particularly interested in the passages in paragraphs 5 and 6 about the hunt for DS officers with relevant experience. In these minute West Indian territories I am not sure that experience limited to district administration in larger territories is necessarily a disadvantage. It may not always be realised that the size of the administration in small islands is Complex East African territories.
probably even smaller than that in a large district in the former
Certainly the last district headquarters in which I served had a staff of four British administrative officers administering a population of half a million and professionally Bqualified staff in all fields from medicine, agriculture and
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forestry to the development of cooperatives, fisheries and community development. I doubt, nevertheless, whether this is particularly relevant and I agree with the general theme that there would be advantage if DS officers at First Secretary level could be persuaded into postings in dependent territories.
7. There were two such postings in Anguilla before my time or rather one First Secretary and one Second Secretary, both on a year's posting.. Although I believe both enjoyed the experience am doubtful whether either would wish to repeat it and I would see reluctance to be side-tracked as the greatest single obstacle to the arrangements proposed in paragraph 9. The very small proportion of posts involved, by comparison with normal diplomatic
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