Jamaica Accountability Watch

A sweeping performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis found that the Jamaica Fire Brigade was operating with nearly half its emergency vehicles out of service, five of six ambulances non-functional, and one in three fire hydrants across

A sweeping performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis found that the Jamaica Fire Brigade was operating with nearly half its emergency vehicles out of service, five of six ambulances non-functional, and one in three fire hydrants across

For more than a decade, Jamaicans paying their light bills, water rates and phone charges assumed a government body was watching over the companies providing those services. A 2013 performance audit by the Auditor General found that assumption was la

A performance audit of the National Irrigation Commission covering six financial years revealed a public body in serious decline — haemorrhaging water it could not deliver, spending money it could not account for, and depending on government subsidie

A performance audit of the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s motor vehicle fleet has uncovered deep systemic failures that left hundreds of police vehicles off the road, J$323 million in spare parts untraceable, and a fuel bill of J$3.2 billion over five years.

A performance audit of the Urban Development Corporation has exposed a statutory body in profound financial and operational crisis — recording operating losses exceeding $1.2 billion, leaving $10.1 billion in public property uninsured, and failing to

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.

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