Senior civil servant steps in for Lt-Governor
Friday 24th October 2008, 2:30PM BST.
SENIOR civil servant Nigel Lewis, who has worked alongside Guernsey industries for much of his career, will be the speaker at the double sell-out dinner to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Guernsey Chamber of Commerce.
Mr Lewis (pictured), deputy chief executive of the States, was formerly the senior civil servant at the then Board of Industry and the Commerce and Employment Department.
He has agreed to speak after the Lt-Governor, Sir Fabian Malbon, was advised not to go ahead with the engagement following surgery. The original venue for the dinner – St James – was booked beyond capacity within three hours of tickets being made available last month.
Organiser Orchard Events proposed moving the dinner to Beau Sejour, which can accommodate more than 400 guests, and again it was fully subscribed days later with a number of tables still on the waiting list.
The special event marking two centuries of Guernsey entrepreneurialism will take place on 21 November and will be a celebration of all that is good about business in the island.
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Tickets sold out quick then. Lovely. Probably a stampede by the elitest you scratch my back and I’ll scatch yours brigade. How many of these tickets were purchased by the states for the states to keep some kind of self economy going? Where do us taxpayers benifit exactly? Maybe it is another one of those hidden benefits which nobody ever sees? Still I bet the grub will be good and the bottomless champagne glasses even better? Maybe massive hangovers might even spark some debate? Most definately about the previous evening thats for sure.
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