Performance Audit

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

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 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

The Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the South East Regional Health Authority — responsible for hospitals and health centres serving nearly half of the country’s population — failed to consistently demonstrate that it secured value for money

A landmark performance audit of the Ministry of Health found that Jamaica’s public health system spent years failing to adequately prevent, detect, or manage diabetes — a disease killing more Jamaicans than almost any other condition. For patients at

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 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.