‘I don’t know’

FORMER University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Kevin Hall told Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Tuesday that he was clueless as to how his signature appeared on a Customs document dated more than a year after he left office, prompting fresh scrutiny of the hospital’s procurement and importation controls.

Hall, who was summoned before the committee as part of its ongoing examination of a damning auditor general report into the operations of UHWI, found himself at the centre of intense questioning over a document that auditors said bore his signature, despite him having left the institution in October 2022.

Hall, who spent decades at UHWI and served as its CEO from November 2016 until October 31, 2022, was first asked to explain the hospital’s practice in relation to Customs forms used in the importation of goods.