The corridor, which is now under construction, has for years been a source of major delays for motorists entering and leaving Montego Bay.

Effective today, no through traffic will be allowed along the Spline road in the Bogue Industrial Estate area. This roadway will be closed in the vicinity of the Maffesanti Builders and Contractors office until the widening of the Bogue main road is completed.

Gov't denies flu cover-up

The Government has rejected claims it is being less than open with its release of information on the outbreak of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus.

Since the start of the week, concerns have been raised about the manner in which the health ministry has been updating the nation on the worldwide pandemic.

Yesterday, Daryl Vaz, minister with responsibility for information, scoffed at suggestions of a cover-up.

"Absolutely not, you are getting all of the information (and) it is important that this information be passed on to the public," Vaz told journalists during the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House.

Shaw Park squatters put on notice

The Government is getting ready to take action against persons now squatting on lands in Shaw Park Glades, St Ann.

"They are going to be given notice, they must find a place to go and, if they don't, we are going to remove them," Housing Minister Dr Horace Chang told journalists during the weekly post-Cabinet media briefing at Jamaica House yesterday.

The squatters had been ordered to leave Shaw Park Glades after it was determined that they were contributing to the destruction of the watershed, leading to an even greater problem of flooding in the Ocho Rios area.

Police make $60m drug find

The police have made another dent in the guns-for-drugs trade with the seizure of compressed ganja, valued at more than $60 millions, from a ship on the Kingston Harbour Tuesday night.

According to spokesman for Operation Kingfish, Sergeant Jubert Llewellyn, about 10:50 p.m. police personnel from the Marine Police Headquarters went on a routine patrol in the harbour.

They noticed a ship originating from Haiti docked on the Gordon Cay, the vessel was searched and the drugs found. There were no arrests.

Woman's death puzzles cops

Investigators in the St Catherine South Division were yesterday trying to determine what led to the death of the common-law wife of one of their colleagues in Westchester, St Catherine.

Dead is 29-year-old Jacqueline Johnson, unemployed, of Red Hills district, St Andrew.

Twenty-one-year-old Constable Okaro Benneth, of the Narcotics Division and St Mary, has been taken into custody in connection with Johnson's death.

Police say Benneth claimed Johnson was playing with his firearm when he tried to retrieve it and it went off, killing her on the spot.