Joseph Chatoyer

As Britain attempted to expand its control in the island and its plantation economy over land and sovereignty cultivated in what became known as the First and Second Carib Wars throughout the late 1700s.

During the latter conflict, the Second Carib War, Joseph Chatoyer, one of the most prominent leaders of the resistance and now St. Vincent and the Granite's first national hero, was killed.

Following British victory, thousands of indigenous and Afro-indigenous incensions, were imprisoned in Balasso, a small island off St. Vincent, where, of course, as, you know, we come to know this story of disease and starvation and things like that as they impacted, you know, Indigenous communities.

But so much more than that, you know, for the, what would then become the Garifuna population, the British deported over 2,000 of their survivors to Roatan off the coast of what is present-day Honduras.

We are establishing Garifuna American Heritage Month as a citywide educational season.

We will expand the public archive connecting St. Vincent's paramount chief, Joseph Chatoyer, to the Drama of King Shotaway, the 1823 work produced in New York City, recognized as the first play by an African American in the country, and we will make the Happyland walking tour a permanent Bronx educational route.

Pillar three, build an education and youth leadership pipeline.

We must prepare young Garinagu to lead.