Jamaica Homes News
Independent Jamaican journalism worth supporting.
No algorithms. No noise. Just the stories that matter.
Auditor General
When Jamaica abolished prescription charges at public hospitals between 2007 and 2008, it promised millions of patients — many of them poor, elderly, and chronically ill — that essential medicines would be within reach regardless of their ability to pay.
A landmark performance audit of the National Environment and Planning Agency exposes a decade of regulatory failure in which billions of taxpayer dollars bankrolled an agency that left more than half of all environmental complaints unanswered. For Ja
A government department responsible for 290 post offices and hundreds of properties across Jamaica had no master inventory of its own assets, allowed tenants to occupy public buildings without paying rent, and held $61.7 million worth of stamps gathe
A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica has exposed the near-total collapse of regulatory oversight in the country’s fishing industry, a sector worth approximately J$3 billion to the national economy. With 89 percent of registered fishe