Norma Connolly

Dr. Ginny Hobday, pictured in her Cayman Clinic office, on 4 Aug. 2026. - Photo: Norma Connolly It’s been more than 28 years since Dr. Virginia “Ginny’ Hobday”, as a young doctor, stepped off a plane from the UK to take up work in the Cayman Islands. A few years later, she joined both Cayman Clinic and Jasmine – then called Cayman HospiceCare – palliative care centre.

Members of the medical team that carried out the first FARAPULSE procedure in the Caribbean, at Health City Cayman Islands, on 28 July. - Photo: Supplied Health City Cayman Islands has performed the first FARAPULSE pulsed field ablation procedure in the Caribbean, introducing a treatment option for patients living with atrial fibrillation, known as AFib.

This waterspout touched land at the Holiday Inn in Grand Cayman on Monday afternoon, 3 Aug. – Photo: Reshma Ragoonath A father and daughter have described how they clung to the edge of a pool as a waterspout made a rare, sudden and violent landfall at The Holiday Inn Resort Grand Cayman on Monday. The waterspout, effectively a mini tornado, flung poolside furniture and cabanas into the air and sent hotel guests and staff scrambling for cover.