British royal couple starts Caribbean tour dogged by protest in Belize
Belize City, BelizeReuters Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate arrived in Belize on Saturday for a weeklong Caribbean tour that was marred by a local protest before it even began amid growing scrutiny of the British Empire’s colonial ties to the region. The arrival of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge coincides with the […]
Child marriage persists in Guatemala despite ban, experts say
Bogota, GuatemalaThomson Reuters Foundation A year after Guatemala banned child marriage, girls are getting married in rural indigenous communities that are unaware of the ban and see the practice as acceptable, experts said on Monday. Guatemala outlawed child marriage in August 2017, making it illegal for anyone under age 18 to wed under any circumstances. […]