Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, KNH (9 December 1909 – 28 June 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded...

Sir Vere Bird, the previous prime minister, resigned. Bird was born in New York City on 21 February 1938. Lester and his elder brother Vere Bird Jr.,...

Vere Bird Jr. (October 1936 – 31 March 2013) was an Antiguan lawyer and politician who served as chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) and a government...

dominated politically by the Bird family and the ABLP, with Vere Bird ruling from 1981 to 1994, followed by his son Lester Bird from 1994 to 2004. Though...

government issued a formal protest note to the government of Antigua. Vere Bird Sr. asked the Governor-General of Antigua to appoint a Royal Commissioner...

prime minister who assumed office in 2014. Maria Bird was born in 1991. Her paternal grandfather, Vere Bird, was Antigua and Barbuda's first prime minister...

from outside the Bird family or the Labour Party. Bird had been Prime Minister since 1994, when he succeeded his father, Vere Bird, who had been Prime...

(ALP). Its founders included Vere Bird, father of Lester. The ABLP later came to be seen as a political arm of the Bird family. With the exception of...

ministers of Antigua and Barbuda. 1981–1991: Lester Bird 1991: Vere Bird 1991–2004: Lester Bird 2004–2005: Harold Lovell 2005–2014: Baldwin Spencer 2014–2018:...

Representatives Term length Five years Formation 1 November 1981 First holder Vere Bird Deputy Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Salary 150,000 Eastern...

securing an increasing number of seats in the Antiguan Parliament. In 1961, Vere Bird assumed the role of chief minister in the newly established position....

philanthropist Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere (1699–1781), British peer and politician Vere Bird (1910–1999), first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Vere Gordon...

ALP administration until a cabinet reshuffle in 1987 saw him take over Vere Bird, Jr.'s portfolio for Aviation, Public Information and Public Utilities...

and Communications and Finance. He lost to Lester Bird when there was a vote for successor of Vere Bird as the chairman of the ALP. He was knighted and...

ISBN 978-0-3132-4849-8. "Vc Bird Biography". Asot A Michael. Retrieved 2022-02-25. "Brief Profile Of Vere Bird Senior- Lester Bird And Vere Bird Junior". anbanet...

writings about life on Antigua. Her book A Small Place was banned under the Vere Bird administration Howard Lindsay, three-time Olympian 1984 (Los Angeles)...

They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party (ALP), whose leader Vere Bird was re-elected as Chief Minister. Six ALP candidates ran unopposed, meaning...

C Company of the 75th Ranger Regiment embarked in UH-60 and MH-6 Little Bird helicopters of Task Force 160 to capture Fort Rupert (now known as Fort George)...

about life on Antigua. Her 1988 book A Small Place was banned under the Vere Bird administration Robin Leach of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous fame....

Grenville Theophulus Bird is an Antiguan businessman and the son of Vere Bird, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Bird was a high jumper and...

1980. They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party. ALP leader Vere Bird was re-elected as Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. Voter turnout...

They were won by the governing Antigua Labour Party (ALP), whose leader Vere Bird was re-elected as Chief Minister, a position he had held since 1 January...

and songwriter Tony Bird (footballer born 1974), Welsh football player Towa Bird (born 1999), British singer-songwriter Vere Bird (1910–1999), prime minister...

(1967–1993), Governor (1967–1981) Chief ministers Vere Bird, Chief minister (1960–1967), Premier (1967–1971) Vere Bird, Premier (1976–1994) The Bahama Islands Governors...

and Barbuda became independent on 1 November 1981 with Vere Bird as the first prime minister. Bird had previously been Premier of Antigua. Reference Robert...

and the former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. Selected by Vere Cornwall Bird (the country's first prime minister), his term ended in June 2007...

McIntyre, 1994 The Rt. Hon. Michael Norman Manley, 1994 The Rt. Hon. Vere Cornwall Bird, 1998 Arthur Napoleon Raymond Robinson, 1998 Sir Philip Manderson...

the first in Antigua and Barbuda to be held under universal suffrage. Vere Bird formed the Antigua Labour Party in 1951 and led the party to victory,...

a brief illness. Freeland additionally held various portfolios in the Vere Bird administration. "Caribbean Elections Biography". web.archive.org. 2019-09-22...

International Airport until 1985 when it was named in honour of Sir Vere Cornwall Bird (1910–1999), the first prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda. In December...