We have been banging on and on about Carloway Estate Trust since before it was formed and to the extent that we told ourselves to shut up on numerous occasions. At last, someone may, just may, have cottoned on to what we were complaining about and given the matter more publicity than we ever could.
Melinda at the Gazette has, this week, given front page prominence to an article by journalist Peter Urpeth who, from memory, may have had something to do with the Gazette at one time. Peter very eloquently addresses the fundamental problem affecting Community Land Bodies - that of the innate secrecy of the control freak - and promotes the argument that such bodies must be subject to Freedom of Information legislation, the same as other public bodies like the Crofting Commission. In other words, we, here, should be made aware of everything undertaken by Carloway Estate Trust on its members' behalf and not kept in the dark as hitherto by The Chosen Few.
We don't often pat ourselves on the back but you read about the problem here first. We're not, quite, clairvoyant - we just didn't like the look of what was on offer at Carloway Estate Trust.
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