Public Procurement

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

A performance audit of the Kingston and St. Andrew Municipal Corporation has uncovered a startling reversal at the heart of the capital’s road network: over three fiscal years, spending on parochial roads climbed sharply while the length of roads act

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

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 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