Nicola Granger appointed Financial Secretary for the Falklands government
The Falkland Islands Government announced this week the appointment of Nicola Granger to the post of Financial Secretary for the Falkland Islands Government. Ms Granger steps into the role permanently from the Head of Finance Position when Keith Padgett became Chief Executive.
In making the announcement, Simon Fletcher, Acting Chief Executive said he was delighted to announce the appointment of Nicola Granger as Financial Secretary.
“Nicola has a wealth of experience with the Falkland Islands Government, and has been acting Financial Secretary since February. I have no doubt that Nicola is the right person to lead the Treasury through the next few years, which promise to be very exciting for the Falklands Islands”.
On her appointment, Nicola Granger said: “I’m excited by this opportunity to build on my work of the last five years and to lead the Treasury through what is going to be a challenging but critical time for FIG finances. I'm very fortunate to have a strong and dedicated team in the Treasury and I look forward to working further with them over the coming years”.
Originally from Exeter, Nic earned her honours degree in Business Information Systems from the University of the West of England before joining Mazars LLP. There she gained extensive accounting and audit experience of the public, private and charities sectors before she qualified with the Institute of Chartered Accountants for England and Wales and left to work in an NHS Mental Health Trust in Chippenham.
Arriving in the Islands in October 2007 Nic has worked for the Treasury in a number of roles, including budget setting and production of the annual financial statements. Having led the budget process since 2008 Nic recently gave her first budget speech to the Assembly.
A keen watercolour artist and photographer, Nic enjoys playing the piano and singing in choirs. An avid reader Nic also spends her time researching her family tree and has traced some branches back as far as 1650.
Having travelled around East and West Falkland and visited the majority of the Islands her favourite place is Carcass Island.
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only nothing !
Sep 12th, 2012 - 05:19 pm
What can you do under a governor who has to kiss Kretina's arse to be able to pay the public administration salaries??????
lets hope she does better than we are.
No. Nic will not be called 'Hon' because she is not an elected member and therefore has no vote. She can attend assembly meetings and speak.
So the 'spin' is all yours.
As for 'one of our own', the job has been given to a PRP or FI Status holder for as long as I can remember. And your point is what?
Don't bother.
OK.
Anyway, lovely weather we've been having for the time of year. A bit too dry though, to be honest.
Friday's looking good. I love this time of year when the days are getting longer.
Keep up your interesting posts.
I take as my text this week www.falklands.gov.fk/assembly/
”Each year the elected Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) elect three of their number to the policy making body of the Government, Executive Council. Executive Council is chaired by HE the Governor. Membership includes the same ex-officio members who sit on the Legislative Assembly. In addition, the Attorney General and CBFSAI may attend and speak on any matter”. There is, of course, more but this is enough for illustration.
So, what does this mean to the skilled but locally uninformed reader who hasn't the time to read the Constitution? Well, it might reasonably be taken to mean that the Financial Secretary and the Chief Executive have the rights and privileges of full members while CBFSAI and the AG can attend and speak. If not it would say....oh you can probably get help to work it out for yourself. And don't bother trying to explain the difference between consensus building and majority voting. I already know.
Now you are right and this is wrong (it's in the Constitution), but it might be helpful for the public image of FIG if the picture that is painted on the FIG website more closely resembled the reality. No point sending elected Assembly members round the world if the world comes to the islands through the ether and gets the wrong message.
My final point is that this announcement, refreshingly free from spin, differs from the one announcing the new Chief Executive where “We are pleased that the job has gone to someone who has worked his way up through the FIG system”.
See:
en.mercopress.com/2012/03/07/keith-padgett-first-falklands-government-ce-recruited-in-the-islands
including the comments.
btw verbosity != intelligence (seems almost like an illness with you chaps)
Haw Haw
Am I to deduce from all that verbiage that I was right?
I take as my text Ps146: Put not thy trust in politicians, for they faileth to define 'ex officio' and causeth the foolish man to cast his pearls before swine so that no man may understand whatsoever he may blither on about'.
Maybe she wants to be on top. HaHaHa
As for being a foolish man; perhaps I am.
As for my words of wisdom being pearls; sometimes they are.
As for you being swine; I wouldn't be so unfair to the pigs.
Hmmm...
#3 Elect a Cristinista Governor is what I'd try to do =)
#4 She's OK but no Cristina...
Oil oil beautiful oil.
I hope that's not reportable to the SFA. The Argentines might tell.
I really didn't expect to be in the UK again so soon but that's life. What a nice day it is in West Sussex too.
Chuckle chuckle
More than she could under the present Argentine dictatorship, if it were to steal the Falkland Islands.
Not that it has a snowball in hell's chance even with that joker the Chav helping out.
No Civil Servant nor CBFSAI nor the Governor who attends and speaks as they are in charge of said departments can actually vote- N0-NON-NIET - do you get it?
MistyThink 0 What can she do beneathe the Governor,s power? Well he does not have any power over her.
The Financial Secretary runs the Treasury and is responsible for preparing and executing the annual national budget - once it is approved by the elected members.
Bugger all to do with the Governor - he can comment on it but that is all.
I don't like re-posting but I'll make an exception this time....
”Now you are right and this is wrong (it's in the Constitution), but it might be helpful for the public image of FIG if the picture that is painted on the FIG website more closely resembled the reality. No point sending elected Assembly members round the world if the world comes to the islands through the ether and gets the wrong message.“
It's a shame that even constructive criticism gets flamed by you people. Further, you can hardly be surprised that your assertions are met with cynicism from those who can read the Constitution for themselves. Evidence is legion that the Governor has rather more to do than ”Bugger All” but Paras 56 and 67 suffice to make the point.
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