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What is needed for briefing for the incoming Governor? a package including the Constitution and suchlike papers including Standing Orders of the Legislative Assembly, and the Guide to the Operations of the Executive Council; the PSC Law and Regulations;

Annual Reports, Governor's reports to FCO of recent Legislative

Assembly meetings; Governor's quarterly security reports; the

annual current Budget and Throne Speeches, Governor's recent abl and valedictory despatches to the Secretary of State; the biographies of prominent people as sent to FCO; Cayman

to FCO; Cayman Free Press Yearbook and Business Directory; Tourist literature; Economic Development Plan; 5 Year Development Plan; any significant current reports; GIS fact sheets; and if at all possible, two or three working days with the

outgoing Governor, in Cayman. If this is not possible, the Governor should put together suitable confidential notes. Cayman's

Executive Council understands the need for a handover and its

importance for continuity: that the old protocol (one never has

Governor and his successor in the territory at the same time),

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does not signify. (Written late 1987.)

P.S.

(1988)

The Presidency of the Legislative Assembly [48 sitting days in my

first year] is a difficult, exposed and demanding function which

a DS Officer has probably never been

been called on to perform. The

Assembly can be placid and volatile; ; it is broadcast live, and repeated in the evening; every word and inflection is mulled over.

P.P.S.

(1988)

I see that I have said little about the management of the Civil

Service. DS Officers have little chance to learn about largescale

management across a range of occupations such as even a small Civil Service presents (eg Cayman 1550 approx); probably no experience

of the constitutional relationship of a Governor and a Public

Service Commission; or of managing the critical small cadre of-

Administrative Officers and Heads of

Dreadful

mistakes can be made in these areas and

Hard decisions have to be made, too.

Departments.

they last a long time.

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