Ms Ginny Silva Appointed Deputy Governor
Governor George Fergusson announced the appointment of the next Deputy Governor, Ms Ginny Silva, who will take over from the current Deputy Governor, David Arkley, when he leaves Bermuda in December this year.
Ms Silva is a career diplomat who joined the Diplomatic Service in 1987 having worked previously for Leicestershire County Council and the UK Immigration Service.
Ms Silva has served in a number of roles in various overseas postings, most notably as Deputy Governor of Pitcairn while she was simultaneously First Secretary at the British High Commission in Wellington, New Zealand and then subsequently British Consul-General in Auckland, New Zealand. Ms Silva has also served in Mauritius, Luxembourg, South Korea and Pakistan and has worked on UN, Consular and Information Technology issues within the FCO in London.
She is engaged to be married to her long term partner Mr Mel Ferson and has 1 daughter, Natalie, and 1 son, Samuel.
Ms Silva said, “I am very much looking forward to my posting to Bermuda. I have enjoyed my previous roles working with UK Overseas Territories and I hope this experience will help me settle quickly into this new role. My family and I are looking forward to getting to know Bermuda and the people of Bermuda when we arrive at the end of the year.”
my initial thinking is that she should be a good role mother for all the single unwed mothers on the island
smart move by government house no obvious complaints here
and with a Portuguese last name it gets better
Isn’t she the first female in the role? Shows a little bit of balance coming from the UK. I wonder when we will have our first female Governor??
what ignorant responses from js…and shouldn’t that be role model not role mother?
Some colonies appoint one of their own as Deputy. And why is it a predominantly black country has NEVER had a black Governor. shame on all of you and the British Govt for this oversight and for taking so flippin long to appoint a woman.
Look, the Governor is about as effective in local politics as the Queen is in British politics: They are both figureheads who are loved and loathed in disproportionate measure by whomever you choose to speak to, but they hold little sway in terms of policy decision these days. They are both there simply to keep the tourists happy. And I say that as a royalist.
That said, if you have some conspiracy theory about the British Government’s acceptance of black people, or women, into the halls of power then perhaps you should run it by Baroness Scotland (no stranger to Bermuda), or the multitude of others, who seem to have risen up the Whitehall ranks just fine, based not on their ethnicity or sex, but solely on their ability.
P.S. The following link to a blog by Baroness Scotland, which ably ridicules the incompetence of the sitting peers within the UK’s House of Lords, can be found here for a good chuckle:
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2000-12-19a.44.3
Is this the best photo we could get of her? C’mon now.