Auditor General Jamaica

Jamaica’s National Water Commission budgeted $44.92 billion in capital expenditure over five years while failing to measure whether ordinary Jamaicans gained access to clean water or sewerage services — a fundamental gap in public accountability that

A performance audit of Jamaica’s Production Incentive Programme has exposed a $2.941 billion agricultural support initiative riddled with weak internal controls, politically influenced beneficiary selections, and a complete failure to demonstrate res

Three government agencies collectively spent more than $8 billion of public money maintaining Jamaica’s farm and parochial roads over a five-year period — yet none of them could demonstrate that the money was well spent, that contractors were properl

A performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has found that the St. Catherine Municipal Corporation spent more than $2 billion in public funds on parochial road maintenance over five years without ever preparing a single strategic or op

The Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the Jamaica Library Service spent $4.7 billion in government money over five years without producing a single audited financial statement or annual report — a sustained breach of the law that left Parliam

A performance audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General has exposed systemic failures in how the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information spent $7.6 billion on school supplies and construction over five years, finding that children went without textbook

An audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General has found that three public sector bodies discarded hundreds of computers, servers, and mobile phones without adequately removing the sensitive data stored on them — raising the prospect that confidential governm

A performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has exposed a decade-long financial deterioration at the Students’ Loan Bureau, where non-performing loans surged elevenfold in five years while successive governments pumped billions in publ

A performance audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General found that the government lacks the data, the institutional clarity, and the budget discipline to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals it committed to in 2015 — targets that directly s

A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the National Health Fund, the statutory body responsible for supplying medicines to the country’s public hospitals and health centres, delivered fewer than two in three drug orders

Jamaica Accountability Watch — Key Findings 36 contractors submitted fraudulent test results on $813M contracts. NWA deducted only $94M —…

The Universal Service Fund was established to bridge Jamaica’s digital divide — connecting underserved communities to broadband, equipping schools with technology, and expanding ICT access across the island. But a government audit covering three year

An Auditor General’s performance audit of Jamaica’s National Insurance Scheme has exposed deep failures in how pension payments are made, tracked, and recovered — leaving tens of thousands of elderly Jamaicans exposed to a system riddled with uncheck

A government audit of the Caribbean Maritime Institute covering five years of operations found an institution that expanded aggressively without a plan, lost control of its revenue, and quietly drifted away from the seafaring mandate that justifies i

The government laboratory at the centre of Jamaica’s public health surveillance system has been operating without a functioning legal framework for more than a decade, while thousands of patient samples piled up unprocessed and tuberculosis testing w