The Ja­maica Con­stab­u­lary Force (JCF) says it will main­tain a height­ened alert sta­tus and take a ze­ro-tol­er­ance ap­proach to­wards ir­re­spon­si­ble firearm use and il­le­gal use of fire­works dur­ing the hol­i­day sea­son.

The Cen­tral Sta­tis­ti­cal Of­fice (CSO) yes­ter­day an­nounced the re­lease of the con­sumer price in­dex (CPI) for No­vem­ber 2025, high­light­ing a mod­est in­crease in in­fla­tion and no­table shifts across sev­er­al cat­e­gories of con­sumer spend­ing.

MOUNT MAUN­GANUI – West In­dies as­sis­tant coach Floyd Reifer has is­sued a blunt as­sess­ment of his bat­ting unit ahead of the de­ci­sive third and fi­nal Test against New Zealand, start­ing Wednes­day at Bay Oval in New Zealand.

Self-reg­u­la­tion is de­fined in psy­chol­o­gy as the abil­i­ty to man­age your thoughts, emo­tions, be­hav­iours, and im­puls­es to achieve pos­i­tive out­comes, adapt to sit­u­a­tions, and have bet­ter over­all well-be­ing. It in­volves a num­ber of self-in­ter­ven­tions like self-mon­i­tor­ing, self-eval­u­a­tion, and self-con­trol in or­der to act in ac­cor­dance with or up­hold one’s long-held or long-term val­ues rather than act­ing im­pul­sive­ly or ac­qui­esc­ing to stim­uli from more im­me­di­ate feel­ings.