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A government programme designed to reshape the Jamaican public service by incentivising early retirement collapsed well short of its own targets, spending $1.7 billion in public funds while achieving barely a third of what it set out to do. The Audit
An audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis revealed that three of Jamaica’s most sensitive public institutions — the Jamaica Constabulary Force, the Jamaica Information Service, and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service — operated for y
A performance audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General found that the government lacks the data, the institutional clarity, and the budget discipline to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals it committed to in 2015 — targets that directly s
A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica found that three major government ministries paid tens of millions of dollars to consultants, advisors and assistants in ways that could not be properly justified, evaluated or accounted for. The