Cayman
in 1986,
Service
example
I would
suggested
other areas besides the Diplomatic
-
for
where we might look for potential Governors
the Military Services (long tradition in Gibraltar).
add, perhaps, senior police officers (although this
could be misunderstood in the territories concerned); other
officers outside the Administrative Cadre who have
served at Executive Council level, for example as Attorney
General or Financial Secretary (and we have one example of
each with us here); van, Home
even
Civil Servants
say Deputy
Under Secretary for Assistant Under Secretary level
overseas
or
retiring officers
at the age of say 51/52 for a five year appointment as Governor.
Such people could be prepared in the last three years or So of their home careers by appropriate posting or instruction.
14. If we are to accept the FCO suggestion of "bringing Governors
more into the mainstream of DS administration", and if this
means making the posts appropriate to DS officers, then at the same time you must produce sufficient DS officers adequate for Governorships people who, by their early fifties can
stand up to the loneliness of decision-making and the level
of responsibility. In my considered view this 16 DS3, to
become knighted, some it least
mens
-
Cayman
provide suitable pay and conditions [declare interest
better off than DS3]. Although no longer do Governors
I believe that the level of responsibility of several of
of the remaining Governorships approx- imate to Chief Secretary, Hong Kong, which carries an automatic Knighthood. In the Caribbean, when we look at the Governors- General who are automatically GCMG or similar, in responsibility is ludicrous.
Only the
the contrast
Governor-General
of Fiji, since Sir John Kern, has faced real crisis.
15.
Kern, perhaps
The question is not SO much about pay as about status
and grading and making it clear to potential
Governors that
there is a rewarding and interesting job on hand; and that to be a Head of State, however, small, places particular demands on the Governor (and his wife) and that this can be properly rewarded by recognition of status through honours
much as by people left
been enough So far
pay and conditions. Thank God, there who are prepared to take up jobs in a
/honour
almost as For mo
spirit of
기
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