Latin America and the Caribbean
Source tier B. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Saint Kitts and Nevis: statutes on record
Saint Kitts and Nevis, in Latin America and the Caribbean, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2024. It is not named in either FATF list. Nothing below is asserted without the document it came from being named alongside it.
International framework
Saint Kitts and Nevis is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1995 and the most recent from 2024.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 19 Apr 1995 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 21 May 2004 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 7 Aug 2024 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | 21 May 2004 | 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.
National legislation
Saint Kitts and Nevis's national implementing legislation is not yet confirmed against a citable national register. The convention and monitoring records above carry named sources and check dates; this field does not, so it states nothing rather than something unsourced.
Enforcement authorities
3 bodies are named in the record for Saint Kitts and Nevis, each confirmed on Saint Kitts and Nevis's own government domain. Reading this alongside the treaty position is the point: the conventions say what must be criminalised, and these are the institutions through which that reaches a consignment or a suspect.
| Body | Function | Confirmed on |
|---|---|---|
| Royal St Kitts and Nevis Police Force | criminal investigation | sknis.gov.kn |
| St Kitts Nevis Coast Guard | maritime interdiction | sknis.gov.kn |
| St. Kitts and Nevis Customs and Excise Department | customs and border control | sknis.gov.kn |
Ratification sequence
How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Saint Kitts and Nevis came to these instruments over 29 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1995 and ending with the UNCAC in 2024. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the Firearms Protocol at 3 years, the longest the UNCAC at 21.
Saint Kitts and Nevis became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1995, 7 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.
The intervals below are where the obligations were partial rather than complete. For the 20 years between 2004 and 2024, Saint Kitts and Nevis was bound by the 1988 Convention, the UNTOC and the Firearms Protocol but not yet by the UNCAC. For the 9 years between 1995 and 2004, Saint Kitts and Nevis was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. Nothing in the later instruments reaches back into that window, which is why a complete position today says little about a case from then.
On coverage, Saint Kitts and Nevis is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. 3 of the 33 Latin America and the Caribbean records here are under increased monitoring as the register stands.
Financial-crime monitoring
As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Saint Kitts and Nevis is recorded as Not listed . The lists are revised three times a year, so this record moves on that cadence rather than continuously. The current statement and what it changed are tracked on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Saint Kitts and Nevis
Which drug-control conventions has Saint Kitts and Nevis ratified?
All four: the 1988 Convention on 19 Apr 1995, the UNTOC on 21 May 2004, the UNCAC on 7 Aug 2024, the Firearms Protocol on 21 May 2004.
Is Saint Kitts and Nevis on the FATF grey list?
No. Saint Kitts and Nevis 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 Saint Kitts and Nevis?
None confirmed against a citable national register yet. The dates and listing status on this page are sourced; this field is not, so it stays empty.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
None yet, which is why no instrument is named. The registers searched for Saint Kitts and Nevis were the UNODC legal library, which files legislation by jurisdiction, and the national government and parliamentary hosts reachable under its own country-code domain. Neither produced a document that identifies an instrument, so this record cites none.
What is source tier B, and why is this record in it?
Tier B means the treaty record is confirmed at the depositary but no national instrument has been confirmed against a citable register. It is a statement about this dataset's sourcing, not about Saint Kitts and Nevis's statute book, which may well contain instruments that are simply not published where they can be cited from.
Why does the ratification date matter?
The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Saint Kitts and Nevis's earliest of these commitments dates from 1995, its most recent from 2024; 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.