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Readers are invited to submit information on relevant activities, at least 45 days prior to date of your activity. Mail to: Caribbean UPDATE, 52 Maple Ave., Maplewood,N.J. 07040. U.S.A. Fax: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. Some dates are tentative, all are subject to change; readers are urged to reconfirm prior to making travel plans.

March 1: Grand Carnival Parade, Aruba. Little Cayman Annual Mardi Gras Festival.

March 2: Aruba 49th Grand Carnival Parade.

March 3-4: Carnival Street Parade, Dominica.

March 4: St. Barth Mardi Gras Celebration.

March 7-9: Annual Heineken Regatta, St. Maarten.

March 11-13: 6th International Hotel Investment Forum (IHIF), Hotel Inter Continental in Berlin, Germany. About 1,000 hotel industry will attend. leaders attending, IHIF is Europe's largest and most important hotel investment conference. Information and online registration is available at www.BERLINconference.com.

March 13-24: Gospel Spring Festival, Ocho Rios, Jamaica.

March 16: Neville York Jazz Festival, Flamboyant Hotel, St. Martin.

March 17-19: Material World conference, Miami Beach FL. Details: Email: [e-mail]

March 27-April 3: 4th Annual Havana Film Festival New York 2003. "Featuring the best in Cuban and Latin American cinema, with screenings in three boroughs: Manhattan, Queens and Bronx." Details: HFFNY, 3 E. 69th St., #SR2, NYC NY 10021. Tel: [phone]. Email: [e-mail]. Internet: www.aflfc.org

March 28-30: Rolex Regatta, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

April 1-3: The Caribbean Hotel Association (CHA), and the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), in conjunction with Burba Hotel Network (BHN) will once again present the annual Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Investment Conference (CHTIC) at The Fairmont Southampton Hotel, in Hamilton, Bermuda. Details: Visit the CHA Internet website www.caribbeaninvestment.org or contact CHA's Meetings Management Department at Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone]; E-mail: [e-mail].

April 3-10: ULI Study Tour to Cuba. Focus on land use, urban planning, sustainable development. Details: Rose Kim, Urban Land Institute, 1025 Thomas Jefferson St. NW, #500, Washington DC 20007. Tel: [phone]. Fax: [phone]. Email: [e-mail].

May 7-9: Apparel trade show in Guatemala City, Guatemala The show offers an unique chance for you to see the country's substantial apparel manufacturing industry. Details: Email: [e-mail]

May 14-15: Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) annual Board of Governors Meeting. St. Kitts Marriott Royal Beach Resort. Details: Erasmus Williams. Email: [e-mail]

May 16-18: The Fifth Annual Caribbean Media Conference will take place at the Jolly Beach Resort, Antigua. This follows a commitment by media heads and practitioners to meet on an annual basis to discuss issues affecting a Free Press. The Conference is expected to attract a wide cross-section of media workers and students from the Caribbean, Europe, U.S.A. and Africa. Details: Conference Manager, Annette Nias, 5th Caribbean Media Conference. P.O. Box 1318, St. John's, Antigua. Tel: [phone] Fax: [phone]. E-mail: [e-mail]

June 10-11: 5th Caribbean Region Gambling Casino & Hospitality Conference, Caribe Hilton Hotel, San Juan, Puerto Rico. More than 20 companies related to the casino industry, from Spain to Las Vegas, will exhibit their products, says organizer Bruce R. Smith, president of WestVille Enterprises, Inc.

June 10-13: The Society of Incentive Travel Executives (SITE) will host SITE University in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. The event will take place at the Melia Caribe Tropical and promises to deliver new insights, techniques and information to travel executives booking incentive travel. Details: Brenda Anderson, president of SITE. Email [e-mail] or call 312-321-5148.

July 14-16: Apparel trade show in San Salvador, El Salvador. This is being designed to be the most important meeting of the industry in the region next year. Details: www.fullpackage.org. Email: [e-mail] And: Ms. Patricia Dalponte of the Full Package SUMMIT office in San Salvador at [e-mail]

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