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Vision 2030
This article presents a visionary and hypothetical scenario intended to encourage national dialogue on Jamaica’s digital resilience and future planning.…
This article presents a visionary and hypothetical scenario intended to encourage national dialogue on Jamaica’s digital resilience and future planning.…
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
Jamaica’s path to development is an intricate weave of spatial planning, real estate growth, climate resilience, and community engagement. As…
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
Jamaica’s primary public skills training agency spent $30.5 billion in public funds over five years yet failed to certify more than half of the people who enrolled in its programmes, a performance audit by the Auditor General has found. With six in t
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 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 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