KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – A 52-year-old man has been sentenced to 39 years in jail for having sex with his 12-year-old stepdaughter, with the judge saying he had taken advantage of a child who looked up to him as a father figure and also...
A white woman has been jailed in South Africa for yelling racist abuse at a black police officer, in a case that laid bare attitudes that endure more than two decades after the end of apartheid. In a ruling that lawyers believed to be the first...
Minister of Social Care and Community Development Steve Blackett is sending a clear message to “external forces and internal forces” that same-sex marriage will not be tolerated in Barbados. In an address at a meeting of the ruling Democratic Labour Party (DLP), he complained that lesbian,...
SANTIAGO, Chile (CMC) — A new report says tax revenues in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) dipped in 2016, falling further behind the average Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) country levels, but adds that recovery is likely in subsequent years. The report titled...
Facebook on Wednesday unveiled new privacy settings aiming to give its users more control over how their data is shared, following an outcry over hijacking of personal information at the giant social network. The updates include easier access to Facebook’s user settings and tools to easily...