Topic: Gene Thompson

Health City Cayman Islands has announced a collaboration with the renowned US-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which the East End hospital described as a major milestone in its provision of cancer care for Cayman Islands patients locally and overseas.

Plans for the proposed US$350 million Aster Cayman Medcity medical tourism hospital in West Bay appear to have been abandoned.

Tributes have flooded in for entrepreneur and developer Gene Thompson, the man who helped bring Health City to the Cayman Islands, who died Tuesday, aged 59, after a long battle with cancer.

The Central Planning Authority is scheduled to hear a planning permission application from Aster Caribbean Holdings tomorrow (12 May) regarding its proposed $350 million medical tourism hospital.

Aster Cayman Medcity project manager Gene Thompson announced Tuesday that the company's planned US$350 million hospital will be built in West Bay, on land purchased from the Dart group.

Government has announced plans for a new US$350 million 500-bed hospital in Grand Cayman, called Aster Cayman Medcity.

Thursday was touted as a red-letter day for Cayman’s technology sector with the launching of TechCayman, a business platform that aims to attract software developers and other entrepreneurs to the territory, and to provide Caymanians with the tools they need to start their own companies.

Claiming it would increase customer costs, add legal risks for operating almost any business and even create a “nanny state” in the Cayman Islands, local business leaders railed against dozens of provisions contained in the government’s draft Consumer Protection Bill.

The construction site just east of Health City Cayman Islands teemed with workers Tuesday as project developer Gene Thompson took reporters, legislators and members of the public on a tour of the area.

The MS Foundation of the Cayman Islands is inviting multiple sclerosis patients and their families to meet Dr. Romnesh de Souza and Gene Thompson from Health City Cayman Islands later this month.

A man driving his motorcycle into work early Sunday died after his vehicle and a truck were involved in a collision in East End.

The second relief mission from Cayman to Anguilla took off on Tuesday, bringing medical professionals and vitally needed supplies to one of the islands directly affected by Hurricane Irma.