Highly placed sources are reporting that the Government has made a decision to sign the extradition request for West Kingston strongman Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
Our sources say the Prime Minister could announce the decision in his address to the nation tonight at 8:30.
Meanwhile, there is now simmering tension in downtown Kingston as anxiety mounts over the United States' extradition request for Mr Coke.
The Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to address the nation tonight in response to the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair.
The affair involves the hiring of the US-based law firm purportedly by the governing Jamaica Labour Party to lobby America in the request for Coke to be extradited on drug and gun charges.
Several businesses in downtown Kingston have closed their shutters as the anxiety mounts. The Supreme Court has also ordered workers to go home.
The closures have resulted in traffic pile-ups as people make their way home.
There are also reports that businesses in Spanish Town, St Catherine are closing their shutters as police and soldiers begin to increase patrols across the commercial centres in St Catherine and the corporate area.
We will have more on this development in the News at 7pm on Power 106FM.
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