V.I. Taxicab Commission Presents First New Taxi Tariffs in More Than 15 Years

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V.I. Taxicab Commission Presents First New Taxi Tariffs in More Than 15 Years

After more than 15 years without change, the V.I. Taxicab Commission presented a suggested increase in tariffs to the St. Croix automobile-for-hire operators Monday at the Sunny Isle Amphitheater.

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The first Blacks to arrive in Europe after the US entered the war, June 1917, and among the first to reach the war zone, were the laborers and stevedores that were needed to assist in the tremendous task of providing the allies with materials of war.

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1915

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(1841) Charles Lenox Remond, “Slavery As It Concerns The British”

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2002

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1956

Barnett, Powell S. (1883-1971)

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Windhoek, Namibia (1840- )

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1953

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The Notting Hill Riots (1958)

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