Jamaica accountability

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

The Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the Jamaica Constabulary Force awarded 81 per cent of analyzed contracts — worth $1.8 billion — through emergency or direct contracting methods that bypassed competitive bidding, depriving taxpayers of tr

An Auditor General’s report into the Child Development Agency has exposed a pattern of regulatory failure that left the majority of privately run childcare facilities across Jamaica operating without valid licences for up to two years — meaning backg