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SUBJECT: GOVERNORS' TERMS OF SERVICE
Problem
1.
pay.
Copies to:
Mr Walker, PSD Mr Hope, WIAD Mr Holloway,
Inspectorate
To seek financial authority for two measures, namely to
responsibility allowances to Governors of Grade 4
to award them
or equivalent and annual leave designed to improve the terms)
of service of Governors in the Caribbean and St Helena.
Recommendation
2. I recommend that approval be given.
Background
3. An Inspection team recently visited the Caribbean depend- encies; Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The
Inspectors were asked to comment, inter alia:
(a) on the grading of the posts (all at DS4 or equivalent);
and
(b) on the general conditions of life at the post
·responsibilities 4. On (a), the Inspectors concluded that the duties of the
inve
very
corsicteable arretring
Governors they had inspected were greater than those of com-
parable officers in a diplomatic post: the Governors are very ! Nattele tale tied to theth tettones, and ae wholly responsible for the good government, of the
thead direct responsibility for thousand ander and good government, birtherme the
territory
them
"circumstancet sometimes with hostite wittend
loud cooperation. The Inspecter
difficult
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more compenttil ports. concluded that, in real terms.
Carried more respersibility
A meeting,
attended by representatives of PD, WIAD, the Inspectorate
it was agreed
and this department, discussed this and concluded the posts be
that no recommendation
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