Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has welcomed Powys Council education chief’s recommendation to keep Ysgol Carno open as part of her school reorganisation plans in the county.
Some of Aberystwyth's businesses have declared their support for a petition calling on Ceredigion council to provide more Welsh language services, and secure housing and jobs for local people.
Signing the petition and declaring support for Cymdeithas yr Iaith's calls are the owners of Aberystwyth businesses such as Siop y Pethe, Inc, Teithiau Cambria and Y Llew Du and.
More than 100 people turned out over the weekend in a joint protest between Cymdeithas yr Iaith and Penybanc residents opposing the development of 289 houses, activists heard speakers from the local action group and Cymdedeithas yr Iaith and discussed the next steps of their campaign in the county. There is strong local and county-wide opposition to the development because of the community and the Welsh language impact it would have in Carmarthenshire.
Speaking in the protest Joy Davies of Grŵp Gweithredu Penbanc Action Group said:
LESS than four thousand pounds out of a seventeen million pound budget was spent on Welsh medium community education for adults, according to figures given to Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg.
Today (Saturday 13th April) members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith have raised a banner to declare their opposition to a controversial housing development in Penybanc near Ammanford. The banner, which states “Nid yw Sir Gâr ar Werth” ("Carmarthenshire is not for sale"), was raised at the entrance to the site of the proposed development which language campaigners and local people claim will undermine the Welsh-speaking community.
Pop star and one of Tresaith most prominent residents, Dewi 'Pws' Morris, joins the owner of a Welsh tourism business in Tresaith, Dr Dilys Davies, have joined Cymddeithas yr Iaith (the Welsh Language Socie
Today, young members of Cymdeithas yr Iaith presented a pledge signed by over 1300 Carmarthen shire people to the Chair and Deputy CEO of Carmarthenshire County Councoil on the steps of County Hall. The 1300 had pledged to live their lives through the medium of Welsh and to press the Council and other auuthorities to create the conditions to make that possible.
In its response to Ynys Mon's Consultation Document on the proposal to
close Ysgol Llanddona, Cymdeithas yr Iaith accuse the Council of
collaborating in a scheme to turn Welsh-speaking rural communities into
quiet Retirement Zones for those moving into Wales.
In his evidence to the Consultation, Cymdeithas representative Ffred
Ffransis says that the Community Impact Assesment "admits that closing
the school would discoiurage young families from settling in the area,
Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg has responded to the news that Minister Leighton Andrews has rejected the language standards proposed by the Welsh Language Commissioner.
The society fears the Minister has given in to pressure from the private sector and other lobbyists to weaken Welsh language services.
Responding to the news, Robin Farrar, Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg commented:
Cymdeithas yr Iaith have called upon Powys County Council to withdraw immediately its threat to close the Welsh-medium village school in Carno, claiming that any such action would be an “unprecedented assault on a community and on Welsh-medium education”. The proposed “receiving school”, Ysgol Llanbrynmair, could accommodate less than half of the 46 pupils of Ysgol Carno and so the community of children would be split up.
