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The novel Miss Allen knead AS TOLD TO BC PIRES My name is Lisa Allen-Agostini and my novel The Bread the Devil Knead was published last week. I come from straight outta Morvant, no crossover. I lived in my mothers house overlooking the traffic lights at Morvant Junction from age two until my mid-20s. I live now in Backayard, a village in the rainforest high up Simeon Road, Petit Valley. We live downstairs my husband Brian McMeos parents house. My mom, Dolsie, was a widow with seven children. My...

Bounty Killer Bounty Killer has lashed out against Dancehall artists who are engaging in criminal activities, and associating with gunmen and arming them with weapons. The Coppershot artist who recently joined the Crime Stop initiative, made his comments yesterday after a video surfaced of a gunfight in broad daylight, between members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force and criminals, during which the police shot and killed two gunmen, who, according to police reports, had, minutes earlier, murd...

15 min read By MIKE AWOYINFA Today, Jamaica is on my mind. I was flying from Trinidad and Tobago on my way to Atlanta and had to make a brief stopover in Jamaica—the land I had heard so much about through the powerful medium of music. Reggae music. From the air, you could see the iridescent island sparkling, like a queen, a Caribbean queen bejeweled in a splash of sun, sea and reggae. I wanted to see everything: the sights of Jamaica. I wanted to hear everything: the voices of Jamaica.   M...

Marlon James created history in 2015 as the first Jamaican to win the prestigious Booker Prize. (Photo: AP) Award-winning Jamaican novelist Marlon James is living a writer’s dream. Having created history in 2015 as the first Jamaican to win the prestigious Booker Prize – the leading literary award for English speaking fiction writers – for his book A Brief History of Seven Killings, James is currently juggling multiple projects, including deals with Amazon, and Channel 4 to adapt filmed...

Alcohol can continue to be delivered after the end of the public health emergency after Governor Asa Hutchinson signed Senate Bill 32 on Monday.

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A special Barnstable Planning Board meeting Monday focused on a proposed zoning amendment to allow certain dwelling units, or family apartments, as an accessory use to a single-family home.  An accessory dwelling unit is defined as a smaller residential dwelling located on the same lot as a stand-alone or detached single-family home, said Elizabeth Jenkins, Barnstable Planning and Development director. It can be detached, attached or somehow incorporated onto an existing lot. "The purpose an...

Best bills of the session put booze on the move Best bills of the session put booze on the move January 28, 20213:42 pm A bill at the Capitol would allow passengers on Arkansas excursion trains to buy alcohol on board. Whether you’re starting 2021 with a Dryuary or toasting the New Year until the fetid smell of 2020 has worn off, January’s become a time to get thoughtful about alcohol — what we love, what we hate and what role it plays in our newly pandemic-stri...

Planning Board explores Accessory Dwelling Units as housing relief Bronwen Howells Walsh The Barnstable Planning Board held a special meeting Monday to start a community conversation about a proposed zoning amendment to allow Accessory Dwelling Units, or family apartments, as an accessory use to a single-family home.  An ADU is defined as a smaller residential dwelling located on the same lot as a stand-alone or detached single-family home, said Elizabeth Jenkins, Barnstable Planning and Deve...

We can’t go overseas and experience other cultures but our brains can! Here’s a quick tour around the world in fiction.