Jamaica’s farm road network — the arteries that carry food from field to market and sustain the livelihoods of thousands of rural families — has been the subject of a damning performance audit revealing that nearly J$2 billion in public funds produce

A performance audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General has exposed systemic failures in how the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information spent $7.6 billion on school supplies and construction over five years, finding that children went without textbook

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 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

Jamaica’s only petroleum refinery shed more than half a million barrels of oil over five years — fuel that never reached the families, businesses and institutions depending on it — while the board charged with oversight barely met and billions in pub

An audit by Jamaica’s Auditor General has found that three public sector bodies discarded hundreds of computers, servers, and mobile phones without adequately removing the sensitive data stored on them — raising the prospect that confidential governm

A performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis has exposed a decade-long financial deterioration at the Students’ Loan Bureau, where non-performing loans surged elevenfold in five years while successive governments pumped billions in publ

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 Jamaica’s Auditor General has exposed a postal network haemorrhaging public funds at an average of $529 million a year, with 88 percent of post offices running deficits, 58 agents paid millions to handle zero mail, and a reform