Browsing: Caribbean

For years, the public image of Jamaica’s fraud problem has been dominated by one phrase: lottery scamming. But according to the Director General of Jamaica’s Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption Agency (MOCA), Colonel (R.) Desmond Edwards, that characterization no longer reflects the scale, sophistication, or operational realities of the threat facing Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. “What we are confronting…

It is no secret that the increasingly borderless nature of transnational organized crime has sent law enforcement bodies worldwide scrambling to keep pace with criminal syndicates. Attackers, money routes, communications channels, and beneficiaries are often spread across multiple jurisdictions, reinforcing the operational reality that cybercrime investigations span several countries simultaneously. In Jamaica, a major shift is taking place as the…

The multinational Zeus strategy, led by the Colombian Aerospace Force (FAC), has, since its 2019 launch, become one of the region’s most extensive cooperative efforts against transnational organized crime, bringing together dozens of countries and agencies across the Americas and the Caribbean. Zeus Caribbean I, one of its most recent operations in the Caribbean basin, integrated air, maritime, and intelligence…

The deployment of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) marks a shift in how security operations are conducted in Haiti, introducing a more robust, coordinated approach to confronting heavily armed gangs that control large areas of the country. Backed by international partners, the force is designed to operate with greater scale, mobility, and tactical capability than previous efforts. The GSF “represents…

Jamaica’s approach to maritime security has become a key example of how interagency coordination, integrated capabilities, and cooperation with regional partners can strengthen responses to transnational organized crime in the Caribbean. This strategy combines intelligence sharing, maritime domain awareness, surveillance, and joint operational action to improve the detection and interdiction of illicit maritime activity. Maritime interdiction: A blow to drug…

The Caribbean has ceased to be merely a secondary route for drug trafficking to Europe and has become a strategic hub for transnational criminal networks, which increasingly exploit institutional weaknesses, security gaps, and the region’s geographic advantages to move cocaine across the Atlantic. As interdiction pressure intensifies, criminal organizations are adapting their operations through more flexible routes that connect South…