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JAMAICA | The Doctor They Tried to Silence: How UHWI’s Defamation Suit Against a Neurosurgeon Unravelled Into a Full-Blown Scandal

A lawsuit designed to shut down a critic instead blew open a story of procurement irregularities, corporate silence, and a doctors’ revolt at Jamaica’s premier public hospital — built on the groundbreaking investigation by Zahra Burton of 18° North.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 25, 2026 - There is a peculiar kind of institutional arrogance that moves institutions to sue the people calling them corrupt — not to vindicate truth, but to silence inconvenience.

At the University Hospital of the West Indies, that arrogance may have set in motion one of the most damaging institutional scandals Jamaica has seen in years.

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Neurosurgeon Dr. Roger Hunter (left), and UHWI’s chief doctor, Dr. Carl Bruce (right).
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