Topic: new year’s baby

A logistics coordinator made her own special delivery in the early hours of New Year's Day - Cayman's first baby of 2026, a bouncing baby boy

Vanessa Ebanks-Riley and her husband Shadrack Chad Riley welcomed Cayman's first baby of 2025, son Caxsian Phoenix Adam Riley.

At 3:29am on New Year's Day, the Cayman Islands Hospital’s maternity ward rang out with the sound of new life as baby Evie Macleod took her first breath, marking the end of her mother's 15 hours of labour.

First time parents Nikisha Chin-Loney and Ricardo Loney hoped their baby daughter Zianna Kaylee would share their birthday month December with them, but she had plans of her own, instead arriving on 1 January.

Aelene Lopez, weighing 5 pounds, 15.5 ounces, is Cayman’s first baby of 2020.