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Health City at Camana Bay Poised to Open in the Cayman Islands
World-renowned Physician Dr. Devi Shetty Unveils Second State-of-the-Art Facility on Grand Cayman
CAYMAN ISLANDS (July 11, 2024) – Health City Cayman Islands unveiled its second hospital, Health City at Camana Bay, in George Town today. This cutting-edge facility, inaugurated by globally recognized physician Dr. Devi Shetty, significantly advances Caribbean medical services. Specializing in cancer care, neonatal intensive care, and robotic surgery, Health City at Camana Bay reaffirms a commitment to delivering world-class health care throughout the Cayman Islands and beyond.
The new 70,000-square-foot hospital, built for over US$100 million, includes a state-of-the-art Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and a Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) with 12 fully equipped beds for critical and post-operative care. The spacious inpatient facilities feature private rooms and a VIP Suite designed for optimal comfort and efficient recovery.
Complementing the flagship tertiary care hospital on East End Grand Cayman, the Camana Bay facility features an Emergency Room (ER) equipped with 10 beds to handle a wide range of urgent medical situations promptly and efficiently. The Level 3 Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) features four specialized beds for critically ill newborns and one family-integrated care room to promote family involvement. Additionally, the hospital offers labor and delivery suites, including three modern labor and delivery beds and three triage beds, ensuring a comfortable and efficient birthing experience.
“Health City at Camana Bay represents a significant advancement in health care infrastructure, ensuring that residents and visitors have access to comprehensive, top-tier medical services,” said Dr. Devi Shetty, founder of Narayana Health, Health City’s parent company. “From emergency care to specialized treatments and advanced diagnostics, our facility is poised to set a new standard in health care excellence across The Americas,” he added.
Health City at Camana Bay also provides dedicated kidney dialysis care with two specialized beds and cutting-edge diagnostic imaging services, including a 3T MRI, PET CT, and a mammogram machine, ensuring accurate diagnosis and treatment planning.
This state-of-the-art medical campus features a robust robotic surgery program and a Radiation Oncology Centre, which opened in March 2023. This will later expand to offer comprehensive and advanced oncology, including bone marrow transplantation and CAR-T Cell therapy, enhancing the medical oncology, hemato-oncology, and surgical oncology services already available.
“Our new medical campus expansion will provide greater health care security for the Cayman Islands and the region, offering residents and Caribbean nationals access to more services without the need to travel further afield,” said Health City Chief Business Officer Shomari Scott. “It ensures all major medical-care gaps are covered, safeguarding the ongoing health and safety of our people,” he said.
“The new Cancer Care Centre, along with our existing cardiac, orthopedic and other specialty facilities, will ensure that no Cayman patient will ever need to leave our shores for treatment, and no Caribbean national will need to navigate the costly and complex health care systems abroad for treatment,” stated Dr. Binoy Chattuparambil, Health City’s Clinical Director and Chief Cardiac Surgeon.
Narayana Health brings extensive bone marrow transplant experience. This, along with collaboration with Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a Harvard Medical School teaching affiliate and a global leader in cancer care and research, means Health City will continue providing outstanding oncology care services for domestic, regional and international patients.
“The opening of Heath City at Camana Bay marks a transformative leap forward in our nation’s health care landscape. This state-of-the-art facility embodies excellence in the health care sector and supports our country’s commitment to providing a well-rounded, wide range of medical services right here in the Cayman Islands, ensuring that residents, visitors and medical tourists have access to the best care possible,” stated Juliana O’Connor-Connolly, Premier of the Cayman Islands, who attended the ribbon-cutting.
“One of my priorities as Minister for Health and Wellness has been to work to strengthen Cayman’s health care system, and to do what we can to minimize our reliance on overseas providers,” shared Sabrina Turner, Minister for Health and Wellness.
“Health City’s inauguration of their Camana Bay location is an important step in this direction as the new facility is accessible to many residents and visitors. Our local health care landscape is changing rapidly, and the challenge for all local providers now is to ensure that the services on offer meet the needs of the population as accessibility is also about ensuring that the care needed is both available and affordable.” She further stated, “As Health City continues to expand, I look forward to our continued work building synergies among local health care providers to enhance not only patient outcomes, but better health for the entire nation as there is much to be done in the areas of prevention, education and health literacy.”
The Health City at Camana Bay hospital is expected to be fully operational within the next few weeks.
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By Deandrea Hamilton | Magnetic Media
October 14, 2025 – It’s being called political theatre — but for citizens, constitutional watchdogs, and democracy advocates across the Caribbean, it feels far more serious. Within a single week, two national parliaments — in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Kitts and Nevis — descended into turmoil as opposition members stormed out in protest, accusing their Speakers of bias, overreach, and abuse of parliamentary procedure.
For observers, the walkouts signal a deeper problem: erosion of trust in the very institutions meant to safeguard democracy. When Speakers are viewed as political enforcers instead of neutral referees, parliaments stop functioning as chambers of debate and start performing as stages for power and spectacle — with citizens left wondering who, if anyone, is still accountable.
October 6: St. Kitts Parliament Erupts
The first walkout erupted in Basseterre on October 6, 2025, when Dr. Timothy Harris, former Prime Minister and now Opposition Leader,
led his team out of the St. Kitts and Nevis National Assembly in a protest that stunned the chamber.
The flashpoint came as the Speaker moved to approve more than three years’ worth of unratified parliamentary minutes in one sitting — covering 27 meetings and three national budgets — without individual review or debate.
Dr. Harris called the move “a flagrant breach of the Constitution and parliamentary tradition,” warning that the practice undermines transparency and accountability. “No serious parliament can go years without approving a single set of minutes,” he said after exiting the chamber.
The Speaker defended the decision as administrative housekeeping, but critics were unconvinced, branding the move a “world record disgrace.” The opposition’s walkout triggered renewed calls for the Speaker’s resignation and sparked a wider public discussion about record-keeping, accountability, and respect for parliamentary norms in St. Kitts and Nevis.
October 10: Trinidad Opposition Follows Suit
Four days later, on October 10, 2025, the Opposition United National Congress (UNC) in Trinidad and Tobago staged its own walkout from the House of Representatives in Port of Spain.
The UNC accused the Speaker of partisan bias, claiming she had repeatedly blocked urgent questions, ignored points of order, and allowed government members to breach standing orders without consequence.
“The Speaker has failed in her duty to act impartially,” the Opposition declared in a statement. “Parliament is not the property of any political party or Presiding Officer.”
The dramatic exit was seen as a culmination of months of rising tension and frustration, with opposition MPs arguing that parliamentary rules were being selectively applied to silence dissenting voices.
Political analyst Dr. Marcia Ferdinand described the twin walkouts as “a warning sign that parliamentary democracy in the Caribbean is teetering on the edge of performative politics.”
“When chairs become political shields rather than constitutional referees,” she said, “democracy becomes theatre, not governance.”
A Pattern Emerging
While St. Kitts and Trinidad are very different political environments, both incidents point to the same regional fault line: the perception that Speakers — the guardians of parliamentary order — are no longer impartial.
In Westminster-style systems like those across the Caribbean, the Speaker’s authority depends not on power but on public confidence in fairness. Once that credibility erodes, parliamentary control collapses into confrontation.
Governance experts say the implications are serious: eroded trust between government and opposition, declining public confidence in state institutions, and growing voter cynicism that “rules” are flexible tools of political advantage.
Why It Matters
Parliamentary walkouts are not new in the Caribbean, but what makes these recent events different is their frequency and intensity — and
the regional echo they’ve created. Social media has amplified images of lawmakers storming out, with citizens from Barbados to Belize questioning whether the same erosion of decorum could be happening in their own legislatures.
Analysts warn that if this perception takes hold, it risks diminishing the moral authority of parliamentary democracy itself.
“Once opposition MPs believe the rules are rigged, and once citizens believe Parliament is just performance,” said one Caribbean governance researcher, “you’ve lost the most valuable currency in democracy — trust.”
Restoring Balance
Political reformers across the region are calling for tighter Standing Order enforcement, independent parliamentary service commissions, and training to strengthen Speaker neutrality. Civil society leaders say the public must also play its part by demanding transparency and refusing to normalize partisan manipulation of parliamentary procedure.
Whether these twin walkouts become catalysts for reform — or simply another episode of Caribbean political theatre — will depend on what happens next inside those chambers.
For now, democracy watchers agree on one thing: when opposition leaders feel the only way to be heard is to walk out, the entire democratic house — not just its Speaker — is in danger of collapse.
Angle by Deandrea Hamilton. Built with ChatGPT (AI). Magnetic Media — CAPTURING LIFE.
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