This is our second blog on this particular topic, that of the appointment of 'Local Development Officer' for the Dalmore - Garynahine area and for which Carloway Estate Trust advertised earlier in the year with applications closing in March for commencement on 01 April. Since then, 2½ months later, zilch, as they say.
That is no way to run a business never mind keeping your clientele, ie your membership, informed. We raised particular concerns in that earlier blog - CARLOWAY ESTATE TRUST (18) - about the intended appointment and which remain valid. Now we raise yet another concern and quite apart from the delay in providing the membership with the basic information to which it is entitled.
What business is it of Carloway Estate Trust about anything that happens in Dalmore, Park Carloway, Upper Carloway, Garenin, Borrowston or Garynahine? Should the Trust not concern itself with its own area only instead of inflicting its bully-boy views on villages that are neither its business nor its authority? Indeed, further, is it legal to do so?
The villages of Dalmore to Tolsta Chaolais have for centuries functioned as the one natural entity while Breasclete and Callanish have functioned as another completely different, inward-looking, tribal entity. There has never been any natural affinity between the two entities and the formation of the Trust has resulted in a very divided community, just as we predicted it would.
Lord, just to remind anyone who may be reading, did not the Breasclete and Callanish community a few years back build a separate Free Church just 3 miles from Carloway Free Church, such was the disdain they had for Carloway???!!! That factor, alone, should have rung very loud alarm bells for the Carloway Community and long before any vote was taken.
These 'community buy-outs', if they are to succeed, need more than anything individuals of foresightedness and experience to direct them and not what we have about us here whose vision for success extends only to the absurd parody of 'Bonnet Laird Walks'. Big egos and control freakery make for a very potent mix and if 'Bonnet Laird Walks' is the extent of the intellectual rigour directing the Trust then woe betide us.
Anyone in doubt about the Trust should ask himself two very pertinent questions - (a) have you seen any improvement around you since the Trust assumed control and (b) is there any prospect that you will?
What business is it of Carloway Estate Trust about anything that happens in Dalmore, Park Carloway, Upper Carloway, Garenin, Borrowston or Garynahine? Should the Trust not concern itself with its own area only instead of inflicting its bully-boy views on villages that are neither its business nor its authority? Indeed, further, is it legal to do so?
The villages of Dalmore to Tolsta Chaolais have for centuries functioned as the one natural entity while Breasclete and Callanish have functioned as another completely different, inward-looking, tribal entity. There has never been any natural affinity between the two entities and the formation of the Trust has resulted in a very divided community, just as we predicted it would.
Lord, just to remind anyone who may be reading, did not the Breasclete and Callanish community a few years back build a separate Free Church just 3 miles from Carloway Free Church, such was the disdain they had for Carloway???!!! That factor, alone, should have rung very loud alarm bells for the Carloway Community and long before any vote was taken.
These 'community buy-outs', if they are to succeed, need more than anything individuals of foresightedness and experience to direct them and not what we have about us here whose vision for success extends only to the absurd parody of 'Bonnet Laird Walks'. Big egos and control freakery make for a very potent mix and if 'Bonnet Laird Walks' is the extent of the intellectual rigour directing the Trust then woe betide us.
Anyone in doubt about the Trust should ask himself two very pertinent questions - (a) have you seen any improvement around you since the Trust assumed control and (b) is there any prospect that you will?
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