New governor due to be sworn in on arrival
(CNS): The new Cayman Islands governor, Jane Owen (59), is scheduled to arrive on Friday to begin her official placement as the UK’s representative. She will be welcomed by members of the government at Owen Roberts International Airport before being taken to the House of Parliament, where she will be sworn in that afternoon. A welcome reception will also be held for Owen at Pedro St. James on Saturday evening.
“On behalf of the government and the people of the Cayman Islands, I am delighted to extend a very warm welcome to the Governor Designate,” Premier Wayne Panton said. “We look forward to introducing her to each of our three beautiful islands and our wonderful, warm people. We plan to facilitate a smooth transition into her official duties and arrange for her to meet various government, business and community leaders as she settles into her new role.”
Governor Owen will spend her first week in a series of introductory meetings with Cabinet and senior government officials and will chair her first Cabinet meeting. An all-day Sister Islands visit is scheduled for Saturday, April 29., when she will tour both Cayman Brac and Little Cayman with the premier and other government officials.
Owen will also attend a Jasmine fundraiser and take part in the Deputy Governor’s 5K event in her first weeks.
But just two weeks after her arrival, she will be heading back to London with the premier to attend the King Charles’ coronation at Westminster Abbey on Saturday, 6 May. They will remain in the UK after the royal event to attend the Joint Ministerial Council.
Owen, who is expected to serve at least three years, is a career diplomat who joined the foreign office in 1987. Her last diplomatic post before her appointment as governor here was as the British ambassador for Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
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Shouldn’t we wait a few months before swearing at her?
Could put a cushion on a deck chair for four years and you’d match the last two governors’ achievements. I just can’t work out if London sends us ineffectual non-entities because they want us to fail or if they send decent people, who then drown in the swamp of CIG idiocy.
Last job was UK Ambassador to Switzerland. Not too shabby.
For the most part, we don’t deserve the folk we are given as Governors. You all think they should affect great changes, but that is not their purview. The UK allows us to rule ourselves, for better or (often) worse. The Governor is to provide oversight.
Our problems are ours, and we should have the intellect to fix them. SHOULD HAVE.
It is definitely CIG idiocy.
I wonder if they’ll wheel Mac out to let her know that a ‘cockroach has no place in a rooster fight’ like he said to the previous one.
She maybe well qualified but I’m sure she’ll take one look at her new accommodation and decide it might not be worth making a fuss. I’m sure she’s already been told about maintaining the status quo.
I can’t remember what he said, but it was something like “know your place” when he ‘welcomed’ the one before too.
Does she know in advance that cockroaches have no place in rooster fights, and she should wash her feet good before disembarking the plane?
At least she won’t have to endure a sit down with Don MacBeater and be told a a cockroach has no place in a rooster fight. I could be wrong, maybe the new Don Jon Jon will be standing in and dictating how it go?
Jon Jon will say (in multiple languages) that “a donkey has no place in a traffic jam, so get a horse or ride a bicycle to Gun Square, Bodden because that is environmentally friendlier than an electric vehicle. I hope answers your question.”
She is in for a rude awakening.
I hope she can help CIMA and the CIAA.
What about CARA and CILPA? No hope for them.
Wait till she meet Jon Jon: the 9th Wonder of Gun Square, BT.
Nah, she just came from Switzerland. Cayman will be a breeze.
Have you even been to Switzerland?
Impressive background …
https://www.gov.uk/government/people/jane-owen
Has anyone noticed how smooth and quiet everything has been for the past 3 weeks.
who has been leading these islands? Let me see if you have figured it out yet?
Franz Manderson. I pray this man never retires. Cayman is going to regret the day he does. It is obvious from the comments here that not one of you know who you are commenting about.
Are you Franz Manderson’s campaign manager for his run for Parliament in 2025?
Or are you just misinformed and naive?
8:42 I doubt Mr Manderson will want to run. If he does he will win in any district.
I see you have a hard time facing facts. Mr Manderson is a highly capable man.
Manderson is not very likely to stand a chance where he is strongest, West Bay.
Dillusional much?
#freeanwar
Please fix the RCIPS
And the damn dump.
And the radar.
The frigging radar.
And Jon Jon’s brain.
Beyond repair
Put the radar on top of the dump. We get much better coverage from having it on the highest point. Also that’s a more suitable location for the radar given its moniker.
do agree with you but what would you suggest ? the police should be independent of government influence when making the decisions who to prosecute but in reality the malign influence of “politicians” and civil service has historically up to present day torpedoed any real change here that might actually be what the community wants. not going to defend rcips, because many of their officers from the top down are appalling but if we want change it has to be through the entirety of the world class cig.
Being free of political influence should not be the same as running things any way you want. There is no accountability. Same problem in the UK.
And Hurleys bottleneck
Please enact and enforce SIPL and the 2009 tenancy law.
she will be just like most recent governors who will do little and ignore blatant bad governance by the local idiot mla’s…
Yep, the last one was pathetic, just focused on building up his social media and CV and appeasing disgraceful politicians.
Yes, the last one was pathetic and so was the woman before him! The first thing she needs to do is deal with Franz and his first class civil service! Once she gets that done at least half of these islands problems will be resolved. Let us see if she will she will have the smarts and brass to do that!
1:23 jealously is a a really bad thing.
chances are you owe Franz and his team your life. When you were hiding in your house during the Pandemic he was on the front line. they also created the best reopening plan in the world.
shame on you.
That’s what got the Muslim governor fired.
Yes, that and being Muslim didn’t help.
Exactly, and a few former AGs too.
1:23b what rubbish. How can you be so out of touch with reality. I pity you.
1:23 no one in their right mind thinks you are correct.
Get a life.
Modern governors are under instructions from London to let the natives run things themselves. Seems sensible to me in this day and age but how is it working out do you think?
I sure hope not.
She needs to kick the senior echelons of the civil service into shape, getting rid of those who don’t know which direction is up!
Especially the police. The last guy had no interest. Just let things slide.
I think she needs training on how to effectively use a cow cod to beat our clown politicians into shape. This is probably the only thing that our politicians fear, besides having to earn an honest living.
We used to get the cane in private school, and believe me it works.
Show’em some stick Gov. & good luck.
Did you get up on the bad side of the bed this morning?
anyone remember when our Deputy Governor acted as Governor for over 6 mths a few years ago? Most of us won’t because everything went so smoothly.
Everything always go smoothly when nothing is expected and everyone is left to their own devices.