Jamaica Governance

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

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

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

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

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