February 18 - Koji Sekimizu , secretary general of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) will spearhead a delegation of IMO representatives to Jamaica from February 20 - 23, 2013.
Sekimizu, who assumed the position of the 170-member state IMO on January 1, 2012 will be on his first visit to the Caribbean and it will be only the second visit to the country ever made by a serving IMO secretary general.
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