Wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a small group of elite families, the names of which are well documented in Jamaica's history pre - and post independence.
Sources:
- Dependency and Socialism in the Modern Caribbean : Superpower Intervention in Guyana, Jamaica, and Grenada (Euclid A. Rose)
- Counter Hegemony and Foreign Policy : The dialectics of marginalized and global forces in Jamaica (Randolph B. Persaud)
- Essays on Power and Change in Jamaica (edited by Drs. Carl Stone and Aggrey Brown)
