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The debt showdown in Washington is rattling the stock market again. Stocks fell Monday after congressional leaders failed to agree on a deal to raise the United States (US) debt limit and avoid default....

New bill proposes content restrictions, heavy penalties for broadcasters GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):Guyanese television and radio stations previously suspended could find it harder to renew their licences under a draft broadcasting law, which will also...

Dr Karl Blythe, a former vice-president of the People's National Party (PNP), has insisted that he was the only politician not given a sweetheart deal with respect to debts taken over from failed financial institutions by FINSAC Limited.

A federal judge on Wed-nesday approved a settlement between the US Justice Department and MasterCard and Visa that requires the card-processing networks to allow retailers to offer discounts or rebates...

Telecommunication provider, Flow Jamaica, plans to launch four products including three-dimensional or 3D television as early as 2012, the company said at its 5th anniversary celebration last Thursday night.

QUESTION: I recently retired after a long career with an international organisation based in the United States.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said Thursday that the telecommunication division of the Office of Utilities Regulation (OUR) would be spun off as a separate entity as the Government tries to keep pace with the complex and ever-evolving sector.

BROWN'S TOWN, St Ann: ON THE day The Gleaner team visits Brown's Town, the office of the member of parliament (MP) for North West St Ann, Othniel Lawrence, is packed with people angling for an opportunity to air their grouses.

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth:"I WASN'T going to run the risk of losing my freedom again, so I decided to stay in Jamaica this time," said Guyard Silverd who was deported from the United States of America (USA) for the third time, four years ago.

PORT ANTONIO, Portland:IT WAS while attending school in 1987 that George Montague became fascinated with shoemaking, a trade undertaken by a family member, which was to become his livelihood.

The Trelawny Co-operative Credit Union (TCCU) and Montego Co-operative Credit Union (MCCU) are negotiating a merger that would position the new entity among the top five with assets of J$3.2 billion and a loan pool of J$1.8 billion, once the deal...

All week the airwaves and international media have been abuzz with what appears, so far, to be the story of the century: Rupert Murdoch's News of the World's unexpected extinction. The move followed revelations that they hacked into phone messages...