Why are we considering another GG?

EDITOR, The Tribune.

On this, our 50th anniversary year of Independence and days before our Emancipation Day holiday, I am putting pen to paper to question what I consider to be a glaring anomaly.

Why is it that we, in 2023, are supposedly considering yet another replacement for the ‘House on the Hill’ as the country’s official representative of the King of Britain? Am I alone in seeing the irony in all of this, 50 years later, as well as in the fact that we are also talking about another (supposedly hefty) pension payment line being added to the country’s bottom line!

Think about it: we have had as Governors General (some of whom received their top British Honours), namely, Sir Milo Butler, Sir Gerald Cash, Sir Henry Taylor, Sir Clifford Darling, Arthur Hanna, Sir Orville Turnquest, Dame Ivy Dumont, Sir Arthur

Foulkes, Dame Marguerite Pindling, Sir Cornelius Smith, and now, another being rumoured to be appointed. This makes a total of 11 new people in 50 years in a British monarchy “appointed” post in an independent country. By simple division, this amounts to a new appointment roughly every five years... ie each election cycle, with the majority of the candidates known PLP appointments.

Let me hasten to add here that all of the appointees were and are wonderful people, of stellar reputations, some of whom even went to school with my parents!

However, do we, the general public, know exactly how much of our money comes directly out of the Treasury (or is it out of the National Insurance coffers?) to pay them and their pensions? Would the present Minister of Finance be so kind as to