Opposition Leader Mark Golding and PNP Senator Cleveland Tomlinson are sounding the same alarm from different corners of the parliamentary chamber: the NaRRA Bill as drafted would hand a single authority billions in reconstruction funds with no board, no internal auditor, no risk management — and oversight arrangements that exist only on paper.

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Two of Jamaica’s most prominent parliamentary voices have converged on a single, damning conclusion about the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA) Bill: it would concentrate unchecked power in a single body controlling billions of dollars in post-Hurricane Melissa reconstruction funds, without the governance architecture to match the responsibility.