Keith Padgett interim Chief Executive of the Falkland Islands
Last Friday it was announced that Keith Padgett, Financial Director for the Falkland Islands Government, has been appointed interim Chief Executive of the Islands until a replacement is appointed for outgoing CE, Tim Thorogood.
Keith Padgett is a well-known figure in the Islands, having been in the Islands since 2001 when he was appointed as Deputy Financial Secretary and has served as Financial Director since 2008. He has held the position of Acting CE once previously and he makes no secret that he is one of the applicants for the substantive post. Should he be selected he will the first locally recruited Chief Executive to the Islands.
In most situations filling an interim post is an opportunity for the incumbent to demonstrate the appropriate skills without the pressure of forging new developments or strategies. Having already demonstrated his abilities, however, and with his eye on the main chance, Padgett has different priorities. Most immediately he would like to push forward the Economic Development and Tourism strategies that have been 4 years in the making and represent long-term strategic approaches to economic development in the Islands. Additionally he has expressed his wish to remove some of the bureaucratic obstacles that seem to have mushroomed in recent years hindering progress and strategic thinking. For many in the Islands, this will be a welcome relief.
The post of Chief Executive to the Falklands Islands Government is a notoriously stressful one. Being responsible for the entire civil service and principle strategists for the development in the Islands requires tough decision-making skills combined with sensitivity to the Islands way-of-life, the ability to listen and acute political skills.
As in many small democracies, decision-making in the Falklands has an immediate and visible effect, which can lead to often contradictory vocal criticism and opinion from all sectors of the country. Padgett is well aware of the challenges of the post, the benefits and the drawbacks, but it could well be that his knowledge and familiarity in the Islands could be a bonus that previous CE’s have not benefited from
The current CE, Tim Thorogood, is due to leave the Islands on the 10th February.
By Janet Robertson – SeAledPR - Stanley
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Keith Pagget interim Chieh Executive.......
I say :
We are also committed to enhancing cooperating and addresing the ongoing and emerging issues in ways which will enhance opportunities for all ,be centred on human development while preserving and protecting the life support system of our common targets,on shared planet....!..............
Islanders held out hand of friendship and real progress was being made until the creepy Kirchners came along.
Goodbye Argentoon you're leaders are a bunch of jokers.
Hey how about :-
“The Kirchner Family”
Could be a good new TV comedy series.
“voted” in democracies.
The interim post that Keith is filling is that of CE of the Falkland Islands civil service. It has nothing to do with running the country. That job is for the democratically elected politicians. The two duties (CE and elected member) are separate. The CE reports to the elected members. Like the CE of any organisation, it is a job that anyone can apply for. The successful candidate goes through a recruitment process like anyone and the decision is made internally (in the Falklands).
Your post intimates that the leader of the Falkland Islands is appointed (you probably assume by the UK) but this simply is not true.
Sorry to spoil your story.
“We had enormous difficulty finding information about the Islands before we came to live here”
Interesting, now he was voted( appointed) as a Chief Executive of this 19th century British colony in Southern Argentina.
www.kpadgett.org.uk/falklands/falklandshome.htm
where ?
What's your point? He is filling an employment post in the civil service. Is that hard for you to understand? Do senior civil service posts in Argentina get filled by cronies as favours from corrupt politicians? Is that what's making it hard for you to get?
The post Keith is filling is not one of any sort of governor or political leader.
Geography not a argie strong point
Isla Martín García is an Argentine island off the Río de la Plata coast of Uruguay. The Argentine exclave island is within the boundaries of Uruguayan waters
I think you've summed it up pretty well.
Im in charge of the Malvinas, if I can find it or not
Its cold out here in a rowing boat made for two
Ive been here two days, and want to go to the loo
Its windy and raining, the waves are very high
I keep wishing the royal navy would go by,
The navy arrives; they say who you are,
I am the governor and I need the loo
Im looking for Malvinas do you know where it be,
Second on your left mate , and don’t smile at me,
Ok ??
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You are really donky, mate!! you are drink to much, It is not good for you!! please take care,man!!It is some friendly advice for you !!have to think or seek help outside!!!my friend!!
briton is far, far saner than you, mate.
Most of your posts are ridiculous.
Still, good for a laugh l suppose.
You're an idiot, boy!
With illiterate 'friends' like you we don't need any enemies. With your tag it ought really be enenema. Bet you don't get it MATE!!!!!!! :o)
the new ship is on its way,
And Kiwisarg don’t want to play,
He haw, he haw ,he haw , Kiwisarg is such a bore,
He insults from behind the door,
He shows his immaturity with jealousy,
For he know that they are beaten
Argentina will not get the islands
His insults will just get eaten,
He does not like poetry, in the form of written type
He just hides behind the sofa, spitting out his hype
Poor Kiwisarg, to see the brits happy
And celebrating, must really hurt you bad
So come back from NZ as you really do blog bad .
,,,oh to be envouse of the british,
If there is one thing Kwi's hate more than Ozzies it's Argentines so **** OFF BACK HOME to your beloved fascist country.
We don't want fascists here.
just like argentina, so many friends, so few to choose frem .
Given the choice between being diplomacy and child like spats of anger and lies, they choose child like spats of anger and lies.
Argentina has never recovered from being a wannabe be Axis power in the 1930's. Argentina's version of fascism (like that of Spain's) remained undefeated by WW2 Allied powers. It hadn't even had to fight a real civil war to maintain power, just murder 50,000-100,000 of its own unarmed political activists and we all know how easy that was for their brave and heroic military men, like their hero Commander Astiz.
It took the Falklands War to shake the Argentines into some semblance of reality. Remove their military government and see the Americans as something other than a benevolent uncle, rather more like a the uncle you kept your children away from, you know the one in the old mack who always had his hands in his pockets and a grimace on his lips.
But within a few short years a girl came alone, a wannabe Eva Peron and took them all the way back to year zero! And the Argentine people gave up their collective memory and switched back to servile child.
In the West it's very difficult to understand how the average Argentine thinks. We have to imagine how our own per-adolescent children think and we can then get into their mindset. Give them a box of toy soldiers & some flags to play with and they are as happy as pie, tell them that they can't own Tracey Island though and they will cry their eyes out.
At school, the teachers would always tell them “Tracey Island” was their's. Even though the reality was, it wasn't..
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