The development of mutual aid societies and lodges strengthened these complex international networks. Members would be received as brothers after presenting their organizations' credentials in different locales around the Caribbean. In Costa Rica's case, as in the rest of the Antilles, subsidiaries were created of the Independent United Order of Mechanics, the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds, the Lebanon Foresters, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and the Independent Benevolent Order of Elks. This also includes the subsidiaries of the Jamaica Mutual Life  
Assurance Society, which functioned as an international savings and transfer bank (Putnam, 2009 and 2013). These support organizations emerged in a complex socioeconomic context of confrontation and negotiation between the banana companies that dominated the economy of Caribbean Costa Rica and their workers (Senior Angulo, 2011). This sets the stage for the arrival of Marcus Garvey, who played an influential role in the region's press.  
According to Putnam (2009), the different lodges, the secret societies, associations, social clubs, churches, scout groups, newspapers and so forth looked for financial, physical and spiritual security, while promoting racial pride, individual improvement and collective brotherhood. For example, from early on, the Mosaic Templars and the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) spread the discourse of racial solidarity and pride between the AfroCaribbean people. Similarly, the Friendly and Literary Association, sponsored by St Mark's Anglican Church, aimed to promote the social, intellectual and physical advance of the city's youth. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, various labour organizations were founded along Costa Rica's Caribbean coast, such as the Artisans' and Labourers' Union, whose first public action was the celebration of Emancipation Day, on 1 August 1910. This event, attended by the provincial governor of Limón, gathered almost 5,000 Jamaicans, who paraded through the streets of the city of Limón (Fernández, 2013).