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1. Thank you for your letter of 2 June asking if we had any further comments on your earlier letter of 14 January to which we sent an interim reply on 1 February. As we said at the time we agree generally with what you say and have only a few minor comments.
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2. Our new approach to look far more critically at bids for expatriate stiffeners is already biting for example in the Caymans with its very tight figure for all technical cooperation for the next 3 years of £130,000. One result already is the recent decision by the Cayman Islands Government to drop bids. for several marginal posts at the High School. We have asked the CIG to plan how best to use their reduced allocation for the next few years and Bleasdale is busy on this. This sort of squeeze certainly concentrates minds wonderfully but leaves us little margin for the occasional important post or consultancy which may unexpectedly turn up. Perhaps one result of the various civil service structural reviews which are going on in the region will be a chance to identify those key posts which we want, or may in the future want; to fill with British expatriates.
3. Turning to paragragh 2 of your letter of 14 January:
Your para 2(b) Do you think we can be quite so sweeping over lawyers? I gather Jennings, in the Turks and Caicos is to be replaced by a local man. But we have just sent a Corps of Specialists Attorney General to the Caymans where, incidentally, he will fill the second Monson doctrine post. We have benefited from Lucy Smith in Anguilla. Would you recommend that both these posts should not be renewed?
Your para 2(c) With the threat of unemployment for doctors in Britain in a few years time we should be able to avoid recruiting non-UK nationals. But we were recently thankful to find a Commonwealth Asian doctor to go to Tristan although that is rather a special case. We have also only been able to come up with a Pakistani doctor to fill a post in Anguilla.
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