This period seems to have been dominated by the work and zeal of Thomas Vincent Ramos who was born on 17^th September, 1887 at Tulin, Puerto Cortes in the Republic of Honduras. Ramos married Elisa Marian Fuentes in 1914 and they migrated permanently to Dangriga, Belize around 1920. While in Belize, Ramos became a school teacher but he was also a visionary leader. He founded the famous Carib Development and Sick Aid Society (C.D.S) and later Carib International Society (C.I.S). Both spread and were established in all Garifuna communities throughout Belize, and the C.I.S had affiliations as well in Guatemala and Honduras. Thomas Vincent Ramos had serious concerns about the systematic neglect and the need for improvement of the health facilities for Garinagu in Dangriga. This translates as concern for the sick and proper burial for the dead. Up to that time, there was not a single Garifuna nurse working in the entire Stann Creek District. So Ramos lobbied and agitated that Dangriga get its native nurses to serve its citizens in the Dangriga hospital. The colonial authorities finally capitulated and granted the request.

    But T.V Ramos was also concern with promotion and preservation of the Garifuna cultural heritage, and to that end, he dedicated his talent, time and effort so that in 1940, as leader and spokesman, along with Pantaleon Hernandez and Domingo Ventura, T.V Ramos approach the Governor of the colony and requested the establishment of a Public and Bank Holiday in observance of the Garifuna arrival to Belize on November 19^th. The request was granted and official celebration of the 19^th November as a public and bank holiday began in Stann creek district on November 19^th, 1941. Two years later in 1943, Punta Gorda, or Toledo District, was given the Holiday, and in 1977, Garifuna Settlement Day became officially a Public and Bank Holiday throughout Belize.

Notes about a famous Garifuna man Thomas Vincent Ramos:

1. Thomas Vincent Ramos was born on 17^th September, 1887 at Tulin, Puerto Cortes in the Republic of Honduras.
2. In 1917 he married Elisa Marian Fuentes.
3. In 1923 he arrived in Belize and resided in Dangriga.
4. Thomas Vincent Ramos will be remembered as a voluntary Social worker.
5. In 1924 he founded the Carib Development Society; one of the aims of the society is to help those who are sick and to assist those who need financial assistance to bury their dead.
6. The Carib Development Society own 800 acres of land at Sarawee in the Stann Creek valley. This portion of land was called Carib Reserve.
7. On the 24^th January, 1926 he was registered as a member of the Arrival Fund Committee which was founded for the benefit of all Caribs in Central America.
8. He founded two other societies for the benefit of Caribs.
9. He started the celebration o Carib Settlement Day in Stann Creek in 1941, and this was extended to the Caribs in Toledo in 1943.
10.  Thomas Vincent Ramos died at the age of 68 on 13^th November 1955. Each year since 1956 a torch light parade is held in his honour. He was buried on 14^th November, 1955.

Source: Cayetano, S., (1997), Garifuna History, Language and Culture of Belize, Central America and The Caribbean: Bicentennial Edition (p.33)