There is now simmering tension in downtown Kingston as anxiety mounts over the United States' extradition request for West Kingston businessman, Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
The Prime Minister Bruce Golding is to address the nation tonight at 8:30 in response to the controversial Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair.
The affair involves the hiring of the US-based law firm puportedly 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.
We will have more on this development in the Major News at 5pm on Power 106FM.