Retiree Vanessa K. Garraway returns for another year as ESHS Principal
This is according to reports from sources in the Ministry of Education, and was confirmed today, August 25, 2025, by Chief Education Officer Orlandette R. Crabbe at Professional Day 2025, which is currently taking place at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex.
“We are happy to have the one and only Mrs Vanessa Garraway, back for another year. She has agreed to serve as principal for one additional year, and we appreciate her taking up that challenge,” Mrs Crabbe stated.
No replacement found
According to reports, a suitable principal was not found, even after the vacancy was advertised more than once, and Mrs Garraway was approached to render her service for another academic year.
Mrs Garraway became ESHS principal in September 2019.
Before her appointment, she was the Deputy Principal and the Principal responsible for Senior Academics, and was acting in the capacity of Principal following the resignation of Ms Sandy M. Harrigan-Underhill prior to the February 25, 2019, General Elections.
Before taking on administrative duties in various capacities at ESHS, Mrs Garraway served as a teacher of Mathematics.
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24 Responses to “Retiree Vanessa K. Garraway returns for another year as ESHS Principal”
63 years a BVIslander, same problem
Ain't nobody wants the stress of heading a school with some rude *$$ children and their disrespectful @$$ parents.
Now, I didn’t know that we had a proper HR recycling Program! Kudos!
You need backbone
They knew people would have talked, that's why they didn't give it to the minister's sister.
Welcome back Mrs. Gateway. They had to eat up their words. They had to humble themselves and rehire you.
Yo kid miss?
They’re graduating with honors, yet they can’t read fluently. They’re praised on paper, but when they sit down for a job interview, they can’t answer basic questions.
This isn’t success—it’s a system masking failure with certificates and ceremonies.
We’re handing out diplomas while ignoring the fact that many students are leaving school without the skills they need to survive, let alone thrive.
Families aren’t left wondering—they’re overjoyed. They see the honor roll, the graduation photos, the applause. But beneath the celebration is a painful truth: many of these children are not prepared for the real world.
We need truth. We need change.
No more inflated grades. No more empty accolades. Let’s demand real learning, real support, and real accountability—for the sake of every child who deserves better.
There are persons in workplaces with atrocious grammar in emails. Some can’t even form a proper sentence.
Nearly all interviewees, at their initial place of employment, failed at their first attempt!
You really don't expect a teenage applicant to be as seasoned and proficient orally, as say, one, with two or more decades of work experience!
What we need is employers who are sensitive to the ebbs and flows of early adulthood. And not penalize, our young people when they fall short, but give advice, and guidance, where neccessary!
If Mrs. Garraway can use her school as a segway, to the working world- I e., holding courses in the interviewing, hiring, job management processes, then this country would be on a path of employment cosummacy !