Jamaica Accountability Watch

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 sweeping six-year audit of Jamaica’s public health spending has uncovered serious procurement failures at the University Hospital of the West Indies, with the Auditor General warning that governance breakdowns at one of the country’s most critical

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

Jamaica’s Auditor General has found that the government’s social benefit system — the lifeline for hundreds of thousands of the country’s poorest citizens — is failing on three fundamental levels: reforms designed to fix it have been shelved, the age

A landmark performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has found that Jamaica’s public health system was already in institutional crisis well before COVID-19 arrived — with governance bodies inactive for years, hospital beds declining, h

Tourism is the economic lifeline that underpins employment, foreign exchange earnings and government revenue across Jamaica, making the agencies responsible for its development among the most consequential in the public sector. A performance audit of

A government agency entrusted with feeding over 150,000 of Jamaica’s most vulnerable schoolchildren received $5.5 billion in public funds over six years — then delivered 88 percent fewer meals while its costs exploded and payments flowed to companies

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 of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation has uncovered a startling reversal at the heart of the capital’s road network: over three fiscal years, spending on parochial roads climbed sharply while the length of roads act

Jamaica’s primary public skills training agency spent $30.5 billion in public funds over five years yet failed to certify more than half of the people who enrolled in its programmes, a performance audit by the Auditor General has found. With six in t

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

An Auditor General’s report into the Jamaica Urban Transit Company reveals a state enterprise that spent J$3.3 billion in annual government subsidies while ridership collapsed, buses burned, and nearly all procurement bypassed competitive bidding. Fo

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

Jamaica’s farm road network — the arteries that carry food from field to market and sustain the livelihoods of thousands of rural families — has been the subject of a damning performance audit revealing that nearly J$2 billion in public funds produce

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