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The Board of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) today announced the appointment of a new Chair, Mrs Karolin Troubetzkoy. Mrs Troubetzkoy has served as a CBF Director for the past 2 years. The Board of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) today announced the appointment of a new Chair, Mrs Karolin Troubetzkoy. Mrs Troubetzkoy has served […]
Source: Travel Weekly It was one helluva year, but we have finally said farewell and good riddance to 2020, a year that took its toll on millions of individuals, families and industries in hundreds of countries. The pandemic continues to slam all of us across the board and borders: exhausted healthcare workers; struggling business and […]
Photo: Dr. Gale Rigobert, St. Lucia’s Minister for Education, Innovation, Gender Relations and Sustainable Development (left), receives the Caribbean Challenge Initiative pin from CCI Special Envoy Karolin Troubetzkoy. ST. LUCIA (February 9, 2020) – More action and funding are needed to protect the region’s coral reefs and to conserve fisheries and other marine resources, asserted […]
ANTIGUA (July 16, 2019) – France and Germany, along with The Nature Conservancy, have pledged over US$45 million in contributions to the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund (CBF) to increase resources for biodiversity conservation. During last month’s CBF Annual Meeting in Antigua, Ulrike Metzger, division head of regional development policy, Central America, Caribbean and Mexico for the […]
Lead Photo: CCI Envoy Karolin Troubetzkoy (right) congratulates Josefina Gomez of Fondo MARENA in the Dominican Republic (The National Fund for the Environment and Natural Resources) while in Antigua last week. ANTIGUA (June 27, 2019) – Five Caribbean countries and territories were recognized for their early achievement of the ambitious marine protection target they committed to when […]
Photo: Karolin Troubetzkoy receives the Order of Merit from His Excellency Holger Michael, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Caribbean ST. LUCIA (May 26, 2019) – Karolin Troubetzkoy of St. Lucia has been awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the highest tribute the republic can pay to individuals for services […]
From left: Eleanor Phillips, Director of External Affairs for the Caribbean for The Nature Conservancy; German Ambassador to CARICOM and Chairman of the CCI Steering Committee Holger Michael; Karolin Troubetzkoy, new Envoy for the Caribbean Challenge Initiative; and Yabanex Batista, CEO of the Caribbean Biodiversity Fund. ST LUCIA (January 17, 2019) – St. Lucian hotelier […]
MIAMI (May 28, 2018) – The resounding mandate that Barbados’ first female prime minister earned from the electorate is a vote of confidence for women in leadership throughout the Caribbean, says Karolin Troubetzkoy, President of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), as she congratulated incoming Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley on her, and her […]
CHTA PRESIDENT: CARIBBEAN UNITED IN RECOVERY AND RENEWAL New Year’s Message from Karolin Troubetzkoy President, Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association Dear Members: On behalf of our Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), let me wish all of you a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. Above all, I hope for our Caribbean region to be […]