00556nam a2200085Ia 4500100002400000245008600024260000900110520033200119583001900451 aMC ELROY, Jerome L. aSocial and economic propensity for political dependence in the insular Caribbean. c1995 aPoints out that the process of decolonisation has stalled in the insular Caribbean. Since 1983 no island has achieved independence in the 16 dependent territories that remain, islanders have consistently voted in favour of the political status quo and, by assumption, the lucrative package of territorial economic concessions. c3/7/00kM2LMGR