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...

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

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...

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:...

(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...