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Events & Activities
The Caribbean continued its effort to strengthen operational capacity to tackle transnational financial crime with the staging of a five-day training seminar in Jamaica.
The seminar, held at the Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston from February 23 to 27, 2026 brought together representatives from law enforcement agencies, prosecution authorities, customs, financial investigations and asset recovery entities, tax administrations and other government institutions, including the Asset Recovery Unit of the Regional Security System (RSS).
Organisers said the seminar provided a practical forum for participants from different jurisdictions and professional disciplines to deepen relationships, share experiences, and reinforce the foundations of effective regional cooperation.
Led by project consultants GovRisk, the seminar was staged by the RSS in its capacity as permanent coordinating secretariat for the Asset Recovery Inter-Agency Network for the Caribbean (ARIN-CARIB), and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
“The training is but one of the interventions under the IDB/RSS Joint Investigations Framework project which seeks to establish the legal and operational framework for multilateral or bilateral cooperation among states to jointly conduct criminal investigations. It aligns with the broader strategic objectives of the ARIN-CARIB to develop joint interoperable measures for use across jurisdictions in arresting cross-border crime. The training also aligns with one of the core pillars of the IDB’s ONE Caribbean programme — Citizen Security,” a news release from the IDB explained.
Among the key areas covered were trends and typologies of illicit financial flows, existing mechanisms for international cooperation in the region, the logistics of multi-jurisdictional investigations, the Joint Investigating Team (JIT) framework and types of international cooperation, leveraging international relationships to support anti-money laundering regimes, and legal strategies for successful prosecution.
“This initiative is groundbreaking from the perspective of the IDB. We have really redoubled our efforts across the Americas and the Caribbean to look at how we can take the profit out of crime, and the reality is that this is a really important undertaking for regional and national development,” noted IDB Senior Sector Specialist Jason Wilks.
“Crime and violence accounts for about 3.7 per cent of GDP (gross domestic product) of our countries in the Caribbean. In the broader Latin-American space it’s 3.4 per cent, but across the Caribbean it’s even a larger share. And across those two areas it’s about $190 billion that goes to crime and violence. Converse to what we think about compliance, we’re only spending, maybe $15 [billion] to $20 billion on compliance,” added Wilks.
International cooperation
Kisha Sutherland, director of the RSS Asset Recovery Unit, warned that Caribbean nations must enhance their law-enforcement arsenal with mechanisms that permit the fusion of information and other technical capacities from other agencies in real time, given the well-connected criminal economy involving the sale and purchase of goods and services across multiple regional jurisdictions.
“The RSS endorses the JITs’ framework as a viable tool of international cooperation in the fight against crime,” she said.
The training is one of the interventions under the IDB/RSS Joint Investigations Framework Project, which seeks to establish a legal and operational guide for multilateral and bilateral cooperation among states to jointly conduct criminal investigations.