Commentary

This newspaper notes with optimism Jamaica's eight-place gain on this year's Global Competitiveness Index, but warns against overstating the achievement and a premature turning of cartwheels, which appears to be the wont of Investment Minister Anthony Hylton.

If the Scots vote 'yes' to independence on September 18, as one opinion poll now suggests they will, three things are likely to happen in the following week.

Say what you want about Bruce (and I do!), when proverbial push came to shove in West Kingston, he sent in the troops and reclaimed the breakaway province of Tivolistan for Jamaica.

Last week, Phillip Paulwell, the leader of government business in the House, who has responsibility for electoral matters, tabled a bill to amend the Representation of the People Act to, among other things, cause the registration of political parties.

My recent article, 'My vagina is not public property', published in The Sunday Gleaner of August 3, 2014, brought the issue of street and sexual harassment to the nation's consciousness in a way I could not have anticipated but for which I am grateful.

The Gleaner isn't the same company it was when brothers Joshua and Jacob deCordova started it back in 1834. And that's a good thing.