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By Sir Ronald Sanders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Caribbean faces a new and urgent threat: weaponized drones in criminal hands are rapidly proliferating into the hands of criminal actors, non\u2011state militias, and private contractors. <\/p>

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What began as experimental tools for law enforcement has become instruments of murder, assassination, and terror across Latin America\u2014and now in Haiti.<\/p>

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CARICOM <\/a><\/strong>governments must adopt firm, enforceable measures to restrict these devices before our region drifts into becoming a battlefield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a0Marguerite Cawley is a researcher and writer at the think-tank, Insight Crime. When she surveyed Latin America\u2019s drone landscape in 2014, she documented that multiple regional states operated unarmed UAVs without legal frameworks to govern their use.<\/p>

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Cawley warned that such platforms, though unarmed, carried latent dangers: in the wrong hands, their intelligence\u2011gathering advantages could swiftly be converted into strike missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In late 2024 and early 2025, those latent dangers have become realities. <\/p>

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In September 2024, insurgents lobbed a forty\u2011pound explosive drone into Ecuador\u2019s La Roca prison near Guayaquil, illustrating how smuggling tools become siege weapons.<\/p>

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In March 2025, a Colombian soldier in the Catatumbo region was killed by a kamikaze UAV launched by the National Liberation Army (Ej\u00e9rcito de Liberaci\u00f3n Nacional, ELN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ELN is a far-left guerrilla insurgency group involved in the continuing Colombian conflict. This incident marked one of the first confirmed drone\u2011related fatalities attributed to a non\u2011state actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February, Brigadier General Jorge Alejandro Guti\u00e9rrez Mart\u00ednez of Mexico survived an attempted drone assassination in Chihuahua when an explosive\u2011laden craft targeted his convoy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haiti\u2019s rapid descent illustrates how swiftly control can slip from governments into criminal hands. Haiti\u2019s security crisis starkly warns of what could happen in other Caribbean countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Transitional National Council in Haiti has confirmed that it has engaged private operatives to deploy kamikaze drones against leaders of gangs that are besieging the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These strike missions, shrouded in secrecy, have driven gangs to embed within civilian populations, threatening the lives of innocent residents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moreover, the UK Guardian Newspaper reports that first\u2011person\u2011view drones, equipped with commercial mining explosives, have damaged buildings in gang\u2011controlled districts. The same report warns that gangs are already seeking to retaliate by acquiring and adapting drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This rapid weaponization of commercial UAVs is not confined to Haiti. Online marketplaces now offer platforms capable of carrying improvised explosives, reconnaissance sensors, and facial\u2011recognition software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The barrier to “weaponizing” a drone has collapsed: any individual with modest technical skills and internet access can transform a civilian drone into a precision strike asset. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the Caribbean allows these devices to flow unimpeded, the countries will become proving grounds for airborne violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2023, in an invited address to a seminar organised by the CARICOM <\/a><\/strong>Community (CARICOM) Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (IMPACS), I outlined four critical steps: ban, impose, distinguish, and secure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, ban the importation of any drone capable of sustained flight, payload delivery, or autonomous operation\u2014except those owned and operated by national law\u2011enforcement agencies under strictly defined controls. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second, impose severe penalties on anyone who imports, manufactures, or deploys weaponizable drones: hefty fines, asset forfeiture, and prison sentences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third, differentiate civilian\u2011grade drones from security\u2011grade systems, permitting only fixed\u2011blade, single\u2011camera models for benign tasks such as aerial photography or mapping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fourth, use the collective voice of CARICOM\u2019s 14 member states at the United Nations to secure a legally binding treaty by 2026 banning lethal autonomous weapons systems without meaningful human oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CARICOM states should now seriously and swiftly move to legislate these measures and close every loophole. While some may argue these actions impede innovation, our security imperative overrides such concerns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customs officers require training and equipment to inspect and identify illicit drone shipments. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

National security forces should be mandated to register every UAV in a centralized, digital database that links each aircraft to its lawful owner and permitted use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any deployment by government agencies must be subject to oversight by an independent civilian body, with detailed after\u2011action reports made available to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Civilian drones – for agriculture, disaster assessment, and infrastructure surveys – must meet strict technical criteria, rendering them irreversibly non\u2011weaponizable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Legislation should prescribe proportional but punitive sanctions. Unauthorized importation or use of a weaponizable drone should trigger a mandatory minimum fine, asset forfeiture, and up to ten years\u2019 imprisonment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trafficking in critical components, such as batteries, motors, or guidance modules, should carry equivalent penalties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CARICOM must also establish a technical working group to develop unified standards for drone identification, detection, and interdiction, and to coordinate joint training exercises among regional agencies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where the local expertise does not exist, seek it from organizations like the Organization of American States while training local persons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the UN General Assembly this October, Caribbean delegations must press for a robust treaty\u2014securing at least 20 co-sponsoring states\u2014that mirrors existing bans on chemical and biological weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We should demand global restrictions on dual\u2011use drone technologies and secure capacity\u2011building assistance to strengthen our detection and counter\u2011drone defences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can Caribbean countries allow the possibility of children growing up under the shadow of unseen killers overhead? The age of the weaponized drone has arrived. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Catatumbo to Chihuahua, from La Roca to Port\u2011au\u2011Prince, we are witnessing how rapidly unarmed UAVs become tools of terror. CARICOM nations should unite in decisive legislative action to ensure that their skies do not become corridors of terror.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If our political leaders act now\u2014with import bans, strict registries, transparent oversight, and punitive enforcement\u2014they can set a global benchmark for drone governance, protect our citizens, and preserve the rule of law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

CARICOM governments should not wait for calamity before they act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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