Latin America and the Caribbean
Source tier A. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Dominica: statutes on record and in force
Dominica, in Latin America and the Caribbean, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2013. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 3 confirmed instruments, the earliest from 1988. Every line below carries the source it came from and the date that source was read.
International framework
Dominica is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2013.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 30 Jun 1993 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 17 May 2013 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 28 May 2010 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | 17 May 2013 | Chapter XVIII-12-c |
What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Dominica: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.
National legislation
What follows is the legislation this dataset can point at. A translated title would be a different instrument, so titles are left as enacted.
Act Pages Authorised (inclusive) byL.R.O. 1-2 1/1995 3-38 1/1991 39-40 — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the Government of Dominica, checked 2026-07-30.
Drug Prevention (Amendment) Act 2020 — An amending instrument in the drug control legislation, which is where the operative text of an older act is usually found. Confirmed against the Government of Dominica, checked 2026-07-30.
Drugs Prevention of Misuse Act No 20 (No. 20, 1988) — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Enforcement authorities
2 bodies are named in the record for Dominica, each confirmed on Dominica's own government domain. A named body is not the same as an operative one, but it establishes where the mandate sits — and a mandate no institution holds is the gap that treaty coverage cannot close.
| Body | Function | Confirmed on |
|---|---|---|
| Customs and excise division | customs and border control | customs.gov.dm |
| Dominica Police Force | criminal investigation | cdpf.gov.dm |
Ratification sequence
A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Dominica came to these instruments over 20 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2013. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the 1988 Convention at 5 years, the longest the UNTOC at 13.
Dominica became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1993, 5 years after it was adopted — exactly the median lag across the jurisdictions in this dataset.
The gaps between those dates are the part worth reading. For the 17 years between 1993 and 2010, Dominica was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNCAC, the UNTOC or the Firearms Protocol. An obligation that arrives late does not reach conduct that took place before it, which is why the sequence matters to a prosecutor and not only to a chronology.
On coverage, Dominica is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Of the 33 Latin America and the Caribbean jurisdictions in this dataset, 3 sit under increased monitoring at present.
Position on the trafficking corridors
Dominica sits on the caribbean corridor, one of the six corridors profiled here. The corridor is only as traceable as its weakest documented leg, and this is the documentation for this one.
The Caribbean corridor — 12 jurisdictions, carrying cocaine. The legs either side of Dominica in the reporting are Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda. Across the corridor as a whole, 9 of the 12 legs are party to all four instruments, 2 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, every leg carries a confirmed national instrument , and 2 are under increased monitoring. Dominica clears all three of those checks. The corridor profile carries the leg-by-leg comparison.
Financial-crime monitoring
As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Dominica is recorded as Not listed . Nothing here is a finding about Dominica's financial controls; it records only that neither statement names it. The process is described on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Dominica
Which drug-control conventions has Dominica ratified?
All four: the 1988 Convention on 30 Jun 1993, the UNTOC on 17 May 2013, the UNCAC on 28 May 2010, the Firearms Protocol on 17 May 2013.
Is Dominica on the FATF grey list?
No. Dominica appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.
What national drug legislation is on record for Dominica?
Act Pages Authorised (inclusive) byL.R.O. 1-2 1/1995 3-38 1/1991 39-40, confirmed against the Government of Dominica; Drug Prevention (Amendment) Act 2020, confirmed against the Government of Dominica; Drugs Prevention of Misuse Act No 20 (No. 20), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
Each instrument names its own. For Dominica that is the Government of Dominica, the UNODC legal library. The citation is to the issuing register rather than to any account of it, so the text can be read as enacted.
What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?
Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Dominica, 3 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.
Why does the ratification date matter?
The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Dominica's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2013; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.
Sources
- Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
- Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
- Act Pages Authorised (inclusive) byL.R.O. 1-2 1/1995 3-38 1/1991 39-40: the Government of Dominica, checked 2026-07-30.
- Drug Prevention (Amendment) Act 2020: the Government of Dominica, checked 2026-07-30.
- Drugs Prevention of Misuse Act No 20: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.