The pothole-riddled Marcus Garvey Drive in Kingston is to be rehabilitated at a cost of US$9.1 million or (J$642 million). - Norman Grindley /Deputy Chief Photographer

The Government is to spend a little more than US$9 million (J$642 million) to carry out major rehabilitation works on Marcus Garvey Drive in an effort to improve the flow of traffic from the Portmore leg of Highway 2000 to downtown Kingston.

Minister of Information, Culture and Sports, Olivia Grange, says the work is to be carried out by French construction company, Bouygues and Trans-Jamaican Highway.

"The requisite funding of US$9.1 million will be advanced by the National Road Operating and Constructing Company and shall be subsequently recovered from Trans-Jamaican Highway," Ms. Grange told journalists on Wednesday, at the weekly post-Cabinet press briefing at Jamaica House.