Auditor General

Jamaica’s only petroleum refinery shed more than half a million barrels of oil over five years — fuel that never reached the families, businesses and institutions depending on it — while the board charged with oversight barely met and billions in pub

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 has exposed a postal network haemorrhaging public funds at an average of $529 million a year, with 88 percent of post offices running deficits, 58 agents paid millions to handle zero mail, and a reform

A 2017 performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis found that Jamaica’s drive toward affordable, clean energy — a cornerstone of both the Vision 2030 national development plan and the country’s commitments at the United Nations — was bei

A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica found that the Transport Authority spent nearly five billion dollars over five years regulating public passenger vehicles, yet produced no evidence its work made the sector safer, more reliable or

The National Water Commission spent billions contracting for capital projects that serve two million Jamaicans daily, and on paper it ticked every procedural box. But a performance audit by the Auditor General found that following the government’s pr

A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica found that three major government ministries paid tens of millions of dollars to consultants, advisors and assistants in ways that could not be properly justified, evaluated or accounted for. The

The Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the South East Regional Health Authority — responsible for hospitals and health centres serving nearly half of the country’s population — failed to consistently demonstrate that it secured value for money

A landmark performance audit of Tax Administration Jamaica has exposed a property tax system in deep structural trouble — not because Jamaicans lack the capacity to pay, but because the agency tasked with collecting taxes lacks the tools, procedures

A performance audit of the Ministry of Health’s management of mental health services has exposed one of the most lopsided resource allocations in the Jamaican public sector — a system that warehouses clinically stable patients for decades while denyi

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

A December 2015 performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis exposed a systemic collapse at the National Works Agency — the body responsible for every kilometre of Jamaica’s main road network. Thirty-six contractors submitted fraudulent m

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

The Development Bank of Jamaica channelled billions of taxpayer-backed dollars into loans meant to grow the economy and create thousands of jobs — yet the Auditor General found the bank had no reliable system to determine whether any of it worked. Fo

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