It might be that 82-year-old Mavis Alleyne’s raw dance moves have something to do with the fact that she is able to maintain an active lifestyle, providing her small village of Dochfour with goodies she makes and other little items produced in her backyard.
When Sunday Stabroek visited Alleyne, better known as ‘Granny’ or ‘Cousin Mavis’, she was sitting on her back staircase with a basin of chicken feed and another of coconut shredding. “I does mix coconut with the feed to fatten the birds,”
