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| Victor Ashby |
The Public Service Commission (PSC) has given a further one year service on the job to long-standing principal of the Grenada Boys Secondary School (GBSS), Victor Ashby.
Informed sources told GRENADA TODAY that Ashby requested a further extension after reaching the mandatory age of retirement from the public service.
Under the rules governing civil servants, employees have to retire from the service on attaining the age of 60.
Apart from serving as head teacher at GBSS, Ashby also holds the post of Supervisor of Elections on the island.
The GBSS boss is the longest serving principal of a secondary school on the island in modern history.
According to a well-placed source, the decision to keep Ashby on the job for another year was influenced by the lack of a clear successor at the island’s oldest boys’ secondary school.
He said that some of the influential old boys at the school are not in support of the job going to two of the front-runners given their checkered past.
He spoke of a female teacher who is in line for the job not being favoured by the old boys who are opposed to a female landing the top job at the island’s most prestigious secondary school for boys.
The source added that a male teacher whose name was also mentioned as a possible successor to Ashby failing to get the nod on the grounds that he was “too soft” and “lazy” for the job of principal of GBSS.
