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Weeknight ease married to plump texture and briny sweetness. It’s why shrimp is one of our staple go-to dinner solutions.
Simply stir-fry a few aromatics and spices until fragrant, toss in the shrimp, and dinner is on the table in 20 minutes.
We had that in mind for a “dry” but intensely flavoured stir-fry recipe from our book COOKish, which limits recipes to just six ingredients without sacrificing flavour.
Drawing on the flavours of Malaysia and Indonesia, cuisines that blend Indian, Chinese and Southeast Asian influences, this stir-fry features earthy turmeric, fresh chillies and curry leaves.
Curry leaves have an inimitable flavour that’s citrusy yet also savoury. Include them if you can (they’re sold in most Indian grocery stores), but if not available, the stir-fry is still great without.
You also could substitute dill for a different but still delicious flavour. For those with timid palates, use the smaller amount of chilli and be sure to seed them.
A single tablespoon of fish sauce is the only liquid, but it ties the dish together with a savoury hit of umami.
We like sprinkling the finished dish with chopped cilantro if it’s on hand, and serving it with steamed rice.
Stir-Fried Turmeric Shrimp with Shallots and Chilies
Start to finish: 20 minutes
Servings: 4
Ingredients
1 1/2 lbs extra-large (21/25 per pound) shrimp, peeled, deveined and patted dry
Kosher salt and ground black pepper
3 tbsps neutral oil
8 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced
3 large shallots, sliced into thin rings (about 2 cups)
8 to 10 curry leaves (optional)
1 tsp ground turmeric
2 to 4 Fresno OR serrano chillies, stemmed, seeded and chopped OR Thai bird chillies, stemmed but kept whole OR dried ?rbol chillies, broken in half
1 tbsp fish sauce
Method
Season the shrimp with salt and pepper. In a 12-inch skillet over medium, heat the oil until shimmering. Add the garlic, shallots and curry leaves (if using); cook, stirring, until slightly softened and lightly browned. Add the turmeric and cook, stirring, just until fragrant and the oil takes on a yellowish hue. Increase to high and add the shrimp. Cook, stirring often until lightly browned but not fully cooked. Add the chillies, fish sauce and 1/4 cup water. Cook, stirring often until the shrimp are lightly sauced and opaque throughout. If desired and if used, remove and discard the curry leaves and whole chillies. Season with salt and pepper.
Optional garnish: Fresh cilantro OR sliced scallions OR lime wedges OR chopped roasted cashews OR a combination.
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Jamaica’s four athletes who are competing in the men’s and women’s 400m at the 4th NACAC Open Championships in Freeport, Bahamas have secured qualification to the finals.
Oregon World Championships finalist Stephenie-Ann McPherson secured her spot in the women’s 400m final after finishing second in the first of two semifinal heats on the opening day of the three-day championships on Friday.
McPherson completed the one-lap event in 51.65 seconds as Bahamian two-time Olympic and World champion Shaunae Miller-Uibo won the race easily in 50.84 seconds, the quickest time over the heats.
McPherson’s 51.65 represents the fourth fastest in the heats. Kyra Constantine completed the automatic qualifiers from the first semifinal heat. She finished third in 51.93 seconds.
McPherson’s compatriot Junelle Bromfield finished the second semifinal in 51.75 seconds to advance on time.
Sada Williams of Barbados, the Commonwealth Games champion and the bronze medalist from the Oregon World Championships is the second-fastest qualifier for Saturday’s final, winning the second semi-final heat in 51.48 seconds.
Calderon Roxana Gomez, of Cuba, finished second in 51.57 seconds, and Natassha McDonald, of Canada, grabbed the other automatic qualifying spot for the final, finishing third, in 51.65 seconds.
Oregon World Championships finalist Christopher Taylor and his Jamaica’s compatriot Nathon Allen both won their semi-final heats.
Taylor (45.50) and Allen (45.85) will enter the final with the two fastest times.
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Xiao Jianhua, a Chinese-Canadian billionaire at the centre of an alleged abduction scandal in Hong Kong in 2017, has been sentenced by a Shanghai court to 13 years in prison and his company fined a record 55.03bn yuan (£6.8bn).
Xiao, 50, and his Tomorrow Holdings conglomerate were charged with illegally absorbing public deposits, betraying the use of entrusted property, and the illegal use of funds and bribery, the Shanghai first intermediate court said.
Xiao was also fined 6.5m yuan for the crimes, the Shanghai court said, accusing him and Tomorrow of “severely violated financial management order” and “hurt state financial security”.
From 2001 to 2021, Xiao and Tomorrow gave shares, real estate, cash and other assets to government officials totalling more than 680m yuan, to evade financial supervision and seek illegitimate interests, the court said.
Born in China and educated in the country’s top institution, Peking University, Xiao was known to have links to the country’s Communist party elite. But he has not been seen in public since 2017 after he was investigated amid a state-led conglomerate crackdown.
A reclusive figure, Xiao’s massive business fortune was turned upside down in January 2017 when he was whisked out of Hong Kong’s Four Seasons hotel in a wheelchair allegedly by plainclothes Chinese security agents, who at the time were not permitted to operate in Hong Kong.
He was taken across the border into China, possibly by boat to avoid immigration checks, according to a report in the New York Times.
Hong Kong police said at the time that he had crossed the border into mainland China. Tomorrow also said he was on the mainland. Still, the episode rocked Hong Kong at a time of increased influence from Beijing. Two years earlier, five Hong Kong booksellers disappeared from various locations in Asia and resurfaced in mainland China.
In the years since his disappearance, Xiao’s business empire had been restructured. In July 2020, nine of the group’s related institutions were seized by Chinese regulators as part of a crackdown on risks posed by financial conglomerates. A few months later, state-owned investment firm China Chengtong Holdings Group said it would acquire a majority stake in a securities firm linked to Tomorrow Group.
But news of Xiao’s fate did not begin to emerge until this year. Last month he was finally put on trial, more than five years after his alleged abduction.
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TYRONE BAPTISTE DIED FROM GUNSHOT WOUNDS
A post-mortem conducted on the body of Tyrone Baptiste of Golden Grove revealed that he died from gunshot.
The examination, which took place on Friday concluded that his death is consistent with the gunshot wounds he sustained.
Tyrone and his wife Pia Baptiste were found dead in their Golden Grove residence with multiple wounds about their bodies on 20th July.
The police are offering a reward of $15,000 to anyone who can provide information leading to the arrest of the perpetrator(s) believe to be involved in this gruesome murder.
The post-mortem for Pia Baptiste is likely to be conducted sometime next week.
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There have been three additional covid19-related deaths, the Ministry of Health said in its daily update on Friday.
The total number of deaths has has now risen to 4,092.
Those who died were three elderly males, all with multiple comorbidities.
The ministry reported there were 361 new covid19 cases as of Friday afternoon. The cases were from samples taken between August 17 and 18.
There are now 7,120 active cases. This figure rose above 7,000 on Wednesday.
There are 237 patients in hospital, with 6,883 patients in home self-isolation and 20 in step-down or transition facilities.
As of Friday, there were 165,256 recovered covid19 patients, with 16 people being discharged from public health facilities and 273 recovered community cases.
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Two men and a woman have been granted a total of $48,000 surety bail by a justice of the peace (JP) after police arrested them in the Princes Town municipality on Wednesday.
Cherry Ann Lochan of St Croix Road, Princes Town, was charged with disorderly behaviour, using obscene language and resisting arrest.
WPC Perry-Marash, of the Princes Town municipal police station laid the charges. The JP granted Lochan $15,000 bail at the station to cover the charges.
The police charged Michael Oliver of George Village, Tableland, with driving while disqualified from holding or obtaining a driver’s licence and driving with an invalid insurance certificate. WPC Hosein laid the charges. Oliver was granted $13,000 bail to cover the charges.
PC Rebeiro charged Shovon Dick of Realize Road, Princes Town, with failing to wear a seatbelt while his car was in motion and failing to produce an insurance certificate and a driver’s licence.
Rebeiro also charged him with driving while not being issued a licence, driving without a valid insurance certificate, and resisting arrest. The same JP granted Dick $20,000 bail.
The three accused are set to face a Princes Town magistrate on August 23.
Wednesday’s police exercise took place in Tableland, St Mary’s Village, Princes Town, Naparima Mayaro Road and Cipero Road.
ASP Guzman co-ordinated the exercise, which Sgt Haitool, acting Cpls Joseph and Ali and traffic warden Dickson supervised.
They issued 41 fixed-penalty notices for traffic-related offences and completed 56 stop-and-search exercises on drivers, passengers, and “suspicious-looking” people.
They searched several vehicles and found nothing illegal.
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El experto en la Ley Promesa, el licenciado Rolando Emanuelli, afirmó en RADIO ISLA que es mejor esperar que el contrato de LUMA Energy expire el 30 de noviembre , que culminarlo de forma inmediata.
“ El contrato suplementario vence , lo dice claramente la cláusula. Sin ningún tipo de decreto, no tiene que haber ninguna intervención de un arbitro ni de un tribunal. El contrato se acaba y entra en vigor entonces las cláusulas de salida de LUMA, porque el contrato contempla un proceso para que LUMA se vaya y eso es lo más rápido que puede lograrse para terminar el asunto con LUMA, porque si se cancela el contrato (de manera inmediata) hay que enviar un aviso con 120 días de antelación “, afirmó el experto.
“ Nos coge diciembre en el proceso y luego vendría la transición. En este caso que expire el contrato, pues meramente entra en vigor por los términos y condiciones y no hay ninguna controversia, entonces LUMA tiene que iniciar el trámite para la transición de su salida”, culminó.
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Since its introduction to the electronic payment landscape in December 2021, Lynk, Jamaica’s first digital wallet, has recorded more than $500 million in transactions on the platform.
The Lynk App presently provides an opportunity for individuals, small and medium businesses to be able to pay and receive payments using a smartphone.
Chief Growth Officer at Lynk, Denise Williams, said Lynk allows you to take the money that is in your physical wallet and put it on your phone in an App, so that you can do business using your phone, instead of cash, debit and credit cards.
“It is an evolving App that is on a journey to becoming a super App that is relevant to the Jamaican context,” Williams argued.
Lynk is a payment platform that is used to exchange money, pay for goods and services. It can also be used to top up mobile phones and pay utility bills.
Meanwhile, Chief Product Officer, Lynk, John Matthew Sinclair, said the main objective of Lynk is to provide financial inclusion for all Jamaicans and to create easy access to the digital platform.
He described the registration process as easy. Interested individuals must have a smartphone. For registration, they will need a mobile number, an email address and a valid Jamaican ID (driver’s licence, passport, voters’ registration, Tax Registration Number).
Once your registration is validated you have access to more than 70 billers, you can send money and top up your mobile any time of the day.
Come October 2022, as Lynk continues to evolve and revolutionise, customers will have access to merchants online. The Merchant Platform will be launched, and this will allow small to large merchants to interact with their customers wherever they are online. By year end (December), Lynk will also launch a Remittance platform.
Lynx is regulated by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ). Currently, National Commercial Bank offers JAM-DEX through LYNK(R), its digital wallet.
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