UHWI and Its Chief Doctor, Carl Bruce, Sued Neurosurgeon Roger Hunter for Defamation Mere Months Before Wider Hospital Controversies Mounted
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A lawsuit filed by the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) and its chief doctor, Carl Bruce, is seeking unspecified damages, a retraction and an apology from neurosurgeon Dr. Roger Hunter for allegedly making defamatory statements against them on social media and an injunction requiring that all those comments be deleted and that he be restrained from making any further defamatory statements about them.
Details of the suit, originally filed on Sept. 29, 2025, were delayed in being uploaded to the court’s electronic system for months and only became known after 18° North visited the Supreme Court on Monday.
In the claim, Bruce, who is also a neurosurgeon, complained that on multiple occasions beginning in April 2025, Hunter made false and defamatory statements on social media, including on a voicenote, calling him names like “bully,” “unrepentant criminal,” and “repeated violence producer,” and challenged his qualifications and claimed that he improperly benefited from contracts awarded to a company called Medical Technologies Limited.
Meanwhile, UHWI’s CEO Fitzgerald Mitchell, complained that Hunter made statements alleging that the publicly funded hospital is “corrupt,” “fails to achieve minimum standards,” is involved in “serious systemic failures,” and has failed to hold Bruce accountable for his actions.