Comparison
13 jurisdictions · Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Caribbean island jurisdictions: compared across the record
No other corridor in this dataset crosses as many distinct legal orders in as little distance. Several of these jurisdictions are dependent territories, several are small states with limited administrative capacity, and a consignment moving north through the chain may pass through five or six of them in a day.
What the set looks like
13 jurisdictions fall into this set. 11 of 13 are party to all four instruments tracked here and 1 of 13 are outside the Firearms Protocol. 12 of 13 carry at least one national instrument confirmed against an official register, 13 of 13 name an enforcement authority confirmed on their own government domain, and 1 of 13 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.
Density of jurisdictions is itself the vulnerability. Each border is an opportunity to interdict and equally an opportunity to lose continuity of evidence, and mutual legal assistance between a dozen small administrations is a heavier burden per case than between two large ones. This is the set where the cooperation constraint described on the enforcement page bites hardest.
The comparison
| Jurisdiction | Region | Conventions | Instruments | FATF | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anguilla by extension from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 3 confirmed | Not listed | C |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 4 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Barbados | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 3 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| British Virgin Islands by extension from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Increased monitoring | C |
| Dominica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 3 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Dominican Republic | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Grenada | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Jamaica | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Montserrat by extension from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 4 confirmed | Not listed | C |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | none confirmed | Not listed | B |
| Saint Lucia | Latin America and the Caribbean | 3 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | Latin America and the Caribbean | 3 of 4 | 2 confirmed | Not listed | A |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Latin America and the Caribbean | 4 of 4 | 3 confirmed | Not listed | A |
Where the set diverges
A comparison earns its place by showing where members of a set differ, not where they agree. Across these 13 jurisdictions the ratifications recorded here span 34 years, from 1990 to 2024 — a range wide enough that the earliest and the latest were responding to different problems.
Treaty coverage. Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines are party to fewer than all four instruments, against 11 with the full set. On this measure the set is not uniform, and the gap is almost always the Firearms Protocol rather than one of the drug or organised-crime instruments.
Citable legislation. Saint Kitts and Nevis carries no national instrument confirmed against an official register, while 12 do. That is the widest split in most sets on this site, and it is a split in what can be sourced rather than in what exists.
How to read the columns
Conventions counts the four instruments the jurisdiction is party to, taken from the depositary's status tables. For a dependent territory the count reflects extension from the metropolitan state rather than its own accession. Instruments counts national statutes confirmed against an official register — never the number a jurisdiction has, only the number this dataset can cite. FATF is the listing status as of the most recent plenary statement, revised three times a year. Tier records which of those source paths applied.
The distinction that matters most here is between an empty cell and a zero. Nothing in this table asserts that a jurisdiction has no drug legislation; where the instruments column says none confirmed, it means no citable register published one that could be tied to that jurisdiction. The reasoning is set out under sources and methodology.
Questions
What happens when a corridor crosses many small legal orders in a short distance?
No other corridor in this dataset crosses as many distinct legal orders in as little distance. Several of these jurisdictions are dependent territories, several are small states with limited administrative capacity, and a consignment moving north through the chain may pass through five or six of them in a day. 13 jurisdictions in this dataset fall into the set.
How is this set selected?
By a property of the record rather than by editorial choice: membership follows from the treaty position, the tier, the listing status or the region as recorded, so the set changes when the underlying data changes. It currently holds 13 jurisdictions across one region.
How does this set compare with the dataset as a whole?
The full index holds 106 jurisdictions, so this set is 12% of it. Within the set, 11 are party to all four instruments against 81 across the whole index, and 12 carry a national instrument confirmed against an official register against 91 overall. A set that diverges from those proportions is where the comparison earns its place; one that matches them is telling you the property it was selected on does not travel with the others.
What can be concluded from a comparison like this?
Density of jurisdictions is itself the vulnerability. Each border is an opportunity to interdict and equally an opportunity to lose continuity of evidence, and mutual legal assistance between a dozen small administrations is a heavier burden per case than between two large ones. This is the set where the cooperation constraint described on the enforcement page bites hardest.