Did you know that the first Post Office in the Virgin Islands was established in its capital city of Road Town, Tortola in 1787. And in “1814 former postmaster and president’s clerk, Frederick Augustus Pickering became the first ‘coloured’ British Virgin Islander to act as President. On the 24th November 1949, a demonstration march of over 1,500 persons from all over the islands asked for the removal of then Commissioner J.A.C Cruickshank and for closer association with the United States Virgin Islands. The leaders of the demonstration, Theodolph Faulkner, Isaac G. Fonseca and Carlton DeCastro presented a petition expressing widespread grievances and demanding freedom and democracy. ” Their protest was apparently recognized as in July 1950, the Legislative Council of the Virgin Islands, which consisted of four members who were elected by the constituency, was reconstituted – and in 1960 the Office of Governor of the Leeward Islands, which was based in Antigua, was abolished and the Administrator (formerly Commissioner) of the Virgin Islands was given the powers of Governor. A new Constitution of the Virgin Islands became effective April 1967 – this provided a Ministerial System of seven elected members with the Hon. H. Lavity Stoutt (now deceased) as Chief Minister. (Specialised Stamp Catalogue of the British Virgin Islands, Edited by Giorgio Migliavacca)