(AP) Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding is ordering government agencies to cooperate fully with an investigation into the proposed sale of Jamaica's interest in a luxury hotel.
Golding says agencies must work with Jamaica's contractor general in a probe of the proposed divestment of Sandals Whitehouse Hotel in Westmoreland, a western parish of the island.
The contractor general has said the government's divestment documents raise what it calls "significant questions of national import."
In Parliament on Tuesday, Golding said Jamaican taxpayers will shoulder a substantial portion of the $120 million-plus that has been spent on a project that he says was "very badly executed."
He says divestment would "minimize the losses."