New York Times claims cocaine washed up in Grenadines

On October 14, 2025, The New York Times, in an article headlined “Drug Smugglers Change Supply Routes to Evade U.S. Warships”, showed a photograph of a package on a beach claiming that it washed up on the shores of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG).

The photo comes on the heels of the discovery, by police, of 35 kilograms of cocaine on the island of Mustique on September 23, 2025, and rumours that sacks and packages of cocaine continue to wash up in the Southern Grenadines, specifically Union Island.

Speculation is that packets of cocaine reportedly now floating in the waters of several Caribbean countries and are being found by fishermen and other seafarers and that are also washing ashore on beaches, may be linked to the USA to bombing of alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea off Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T).

The New York Times article of October 14 also reported that, “the Trump administration’s crackdown in the region has led to a sudden surge in the number of illegal air flights from South America dropping bales of drugs at sea, to be picked by larger vessels, according to a senior anti-narcotics official who was not authorized to speak publicly.”

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