Public Finance

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

A 2017 performance audit by Auditor General Pamela Monroe Ellis found that Jamaica’s drive toward affordable, clean energy — a cornerstone of both the Vision 2030 national development plan and the country’s commitments at the United Nations — was bei

A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica found that the Transport Authority spent nearly five billion dollars over five years regulating public passenger vehicles, yet produced no evidence its work made the sector safer, more reliable or

A performance audit by the Auditor General of Jamaica has found that the National Health Fund, the statutory body responsible for supplying medicines to the country’s public hospitals and health centres, delivered fewer than two in three drug orders

The National Water Commission spent billions contracting for capital projects that serve two million Jamaicans daily, and on paper it ticked every procedural box. But a performance audit by the Auditor General found that following the government’s pr

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

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 Tax Administration Jamaica has exposed a property tax system in deep structural trouble — not because Jamaicans lack the capacity to pay, but because the agency tasked with collecting taxes lacks the tools, procedures