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	VERE CORNWALL BIRD
		Vere C Bird Sr., who rose from childhood poverty and overcame a lack of formal education to bring independence to Antigua and found a family dynasty that still rules the Caribbean nation, died Monday.
		Bird had been in the intensive care unit at St John's Holberton Hospital for three weeks and died on a life support system there Monday evening, according to a Government spokesman who interrupted the 7 p.m.
		Bird led his country to independence from Britain in 1981 and still is revered by many as a saviour, despite the many scandals that have tainted the family name and left the country hundreds of millions of dollars in debt.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/bio_VereC_BirdSnr.html (611 words)

	Vere Cornwall Bird
		"Papa" Bird, as he is fondly referred to in his native Antigua and Barbuda, where he was accorded the status of the country's first National Hero in 1994, died at the Holberton Hospital on the evening of June 28, after prolonged illness.
		Bird was a contemporary of other outstanding West Indian politicians who had emerged from within the ranks of organized labour.
		Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Snr., OCC, national hero of Antigua and Barbuda, who had declined the traditional British knighthood awarded to some other Caribbean heads of government, was very proud of this highest national honour.
	www.nalis.gov.tt /Biography/bio_VC_Bird_legend.html (618 words)

	Vere Bird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Vere Cornwall Bird (December 7, 1910, St John's, Antigua–June 28, 1999, St John's) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda.
		Bird was unique from other West Indian politicians, lacking in any formal education except primary schooling.
		Bird's supporters reject these accusations and say that his actions were justified in order to throw off the institution of colonial sugar planters and the British colonial overlords.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vere_Bird (318 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda's National Hero dies at the age of 89
		Sir Vere had undergone a brief illness and was hospitalised in May for a urinary condition at the Holberton Hospital in St. John's.
		On 16 January 1939, a young Vere Cornwall Bird, a former Salvation Army Captain, was elected as an executive member of a trade union that was formed in Antigua to organise the labour force and to secure the rights of workers against oppressive and exploitative conditions in the sugar industry and at the Port.
		Bird was a key figure in the 1947 Montego Bay Conference in Jamaica that decided on the creation of the West Indian Federation.
	www.un.int /antigua/press/prvcbird.htm (882 words)

	Lomarsh Roopnarine: A Dual Legacy of Antigua’s First Prime Minister Vere Cornwall Bird (1909-1999)
		Vere Cornwall Bird was to Antigua what George Washington was to the United States or what Cheddi Jagan was to Guyana.
		Bird’s political opponents, however, maintained that he left the Army abruptly because he was accused of misappropriating funds, an accusation that was difficult to prove.
		Vere Junior has been in the Cabinet for a number of years and was at the center of almost every money-dirty plot in Antigua from an 11 million dollar airport scandal to gunrunning for the Colombian drug smugglers.
	www.sg.inter.edu /revista-ciscla/volume30/roopnarine.html (3363 words)

	The Rt. Hon. Vere Cornwall Bird
		Vere Cornwall Bird embodied a long tradition of outstanding and dedicated political leadership in Antigua and Barbuda, his country of birth.
		It was therefore fitting that he was nominated by his country and awarded the OCC at the third conferment in 1998.
		A true and dedicated regionalist, Vere Bird has played an integral role in Caribbean unity from the period of Federation, through CARIFTA to CARICOM, and was one of the signatories to the CARIFTA Agreement in 1965.
	www.caricom.org /jsp/projects/personalities/vere_cornwall_bird.jsp?menu=projects (293 words)

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		Bird said that he was not about power, s he was not about power, since he had on his side capable young men and women, who could continue on from him.
		Bird admitted that his emotion had gotten the better part of him, and that in the heat of the said emotion, the remarks were made.
		Bird went on to say that the late elder Hadeed was a good friend of his late father VC Bird Sr., but the new generation of Hadeed's were apparently not grateful.
	www.worldcaribbeanlink.com /antiguapoliticsD03toF04.htm (17625 words)

	Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bird then spent his youth in a small period of boom, and then a prolonged period of bust.
		All her sons, Clem, Nalda, Vere and Oscar, were expected to keep away from, and never to be involved in, the constant squabbles which were a regular feature of life.
		V.C. Bird was on the margin of this social configuration, and the Salvation Army - the church of the poor and downpressed came to him, or to his area.
	www.candw.ag /~jardinea/ffhtm/ff990709.htm (3291 words)

	Afiwi.Com - Your Caribbean Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Among Bird’s most significant contributions to Antigua and Barbuda was the development of tourism and services helping Antigua and Barbuda to diversify from sugar.
		Bird also received the Order of the Caribbean Community from CARICOM, he was named as his countrys first National Hero in 1994.
		Sir Vere Cornwall Bird died at the Holberton Hospital on the evening of June 28, 1999 at 89 years of age.
	www.afiwi.com /people2.asp?id=157 (424 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda History
		The Antigua Labor Party (ALP) formed by Bird and other trade unionists first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.
		Voted out of office in the 1971 general elections that swept the progressive labor movement into power Bird and the ALP returned to office in 1976; the party won renewed mandates in the general elections in 1984 and 1989.
		Bird was defeated in Rural East by his former friend and ex-Attorney General Dr. Errol Cort.
	www.world66.com /centralamericathecaribbean/thecaribbean/antiguaandbarbuda/history (542 words)

	Vere Cornwall Bird Biography (1910–99) Online Encyclopedia Article About Vere Cornwall Bird Biography (1910–99)
		When full independence, as Antigua and Barbuda, was achieved in 1981 he became prime minister, and he and his party were re-elected in 1984 and 1989.
		End of Article: Vere Cornwall Bird Biography (1910–99)
		Do not copy, download, transfer, or otherwise replicate the site content in whole or in part.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/085/Vere-Cornwall-Bird.html (111 words)

	AllRefer.com - Bird, Vere Cornwall Information
		A political conservative, Bird pursued a policy of political non-alignment, although in 1983 Antigua assisted the USA in its invasion of Grenada.
		In September 1993 he announced his retirement as ALP leader and prime minister, and was succeeded in both positions by his second son, Lester Bird.
		Initially Vere Bird trained with the Salvation Army, before moving into trade unionism, and founding the Antigua Trade and Labour Union (ATLU) in 1939.
	www.allrefer.com /bird-vere-cornwall (222 words)

	Bird, Vere Cornwall -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Founded as New Johnstown by loyalists in 1784, it was renamed in 1797 for the duke of Cornwall, George III's eldest son.
		Most flightless birds belong to the order Struthioniformes—more commonly known as the ratites—which includes the ostrich, rhea, emu, and cassowary.
		The secretary bird hunts on foot and kills its prey by kicking, stamping, or flailing it against...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9342223?tocId=9342223 (713 words)

	Caribbeanedu.com \| CORAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Hon Lester B Bird won a second term of office in the general election of 9 March 1999, which gave his Antigua Labour Party its fifth consecutive victory.
		Mr Bird had previously led his party to vi...
		Bird joined the Salvation Army as a teenager and served in Grenada after receiving his trai...
	www.caribbeanedu.com /Coral/refcen/biography/bio.asp?cat=BIO08&pg=1 (313 words)

	Antigua and Barbuda
		All were elected; in addition, one of the five, Vere Cornwall Bird, Sr., was selected to serve on the government's Executive Council.
		Bird and the ATLU continued to push for constitutional reforms that would give the lower and working classes more rights.
		During the period of associated statehood (1967-81), Antigua saw the rise of a second labor union and its affiliated political party and the beginnings of a secessionist movement in Barbuda, as well as the replacement of sugar by tourism as the dominant force in the economy.
	countrystudies.us /caribbean-islands/92.htm (995 words)

	ANTIGUA QUIZ
		Q: The wingspan of the male birds may be up to eight feet.
		The birds are the frigate birds, fregata magnificens, also called “man o’ war” because they snatch away the catches of other birds, using their superior aerial prowess.
		These birds are also called the "hurricane birds." Barbuda's Frigate Bird Sanctuary is at the north end of Codrington Lagoon and is accessible only by small boat.
	www.silvertorch.com /quizo/ant_quiz.htm (757 words)

	LANDMINES - Country profile
		From the 1940s until his retirement in 1994, Vere Cornwall Bird dominated the island’s politics, becoming its first Chief Minister and its first post-independence Prime Minister.
		His brother, Vere Jr, however, was pronounced ‘unfit to hold public office’ by Louis Blom Cooper’s judicial review of the Medellín arms scandal.
		Prime Minister Lester Bird has pledged to deal with much-publicized cases of corruption, but the growth of offshore banking has led to further accusations of impropriety.
	www.newint.org /issue294/profile.htm (845 words)

	Bird Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		The Anglo-Saxon name Bird comes from its first bearer, who was a person who worked as a bird catcher or someone who had birdlike characteristics.
		Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Alice Bird who settled in Virginia in 1652; Richard Bird settled in Virginia in 1635; John Bird settled in the Barbados in 1663; Susan Bird who settled in Virginia in 1642.
		Cornwall was originally home to a people known as the Dumnonians, who were comprised of three tribes of ancient Britons known as the Veniti, the Curiovolitae, and the Asismii.
	www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?sId=&s=Bird (1253 words)

	History of Antigua and Barbuda
		The Antigua Trades and Labor Union, formed shortly afterward, became the political vehicle for Vere Cornwall Bird who became the union's president in 1943.
		The Antigua Labor Party (ALP), formed by Bird and other trade unionists, first ran candidates in the 1946 elections and became the majority party in 1951 beginning a long history of electoral victories.
		Voted out of office in the 1971 general elections that swept the progressive labor movement into power, Bird and the ALP returned to office in 1976 and the party has won renewed mandates in every subsequent election.
	www.historyofnations.net /northamerica/antiguaandbarbuda.html (451 words)

	Vere Bird -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Vere Cornwall Bird (December 7, 1910–June 28, 1999) was the first Prime Minister of (A country in the northern Leeward Islands) Antigua and Barbuda.
		His son, (Click link for more info and facts about Lester Bird) Lester Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister.
		He worked in the (A charitable and religious organization to evangelize and to care for the poor and homeless) Salvation Army for 56 years interspersing his interests in trade unionism and politics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/vere_bird.htm (328 words)

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		Bird threatened a strike if sugarcane workers were not given a raise.
		Bird did organize the strike and there was no sugar harvest that year.
		In 1960 Bird became the island's first chief minister, retaining office, with the title of premier, when the island achieved associated statehood in 1967.
	www.rulers.org /indexb3.html (9031 words)

	Cornwall Bird Atlas
		The Cornwall Bird Atlas project hopes not only to provide a home for such records, but also to put in place a recording structure that will lead to a comprehensive understanding of the avifauna of Cornwall.
		We hope that the atlas(es) will provide a clear picture of the status of all the birds using Cornwall at the start of the 21st century so that all the organisations in the county working for the conservation of birds will have a firm basis on which to draw conclusions.
		While many other counties have produced tetrad (2km x 2km) atlases of their breeding birds and some have also produced winter atlases, there is nothing of that sort for Cornwall.
	www.ling.pl /ling/trans-lower.php4?base=http://www.mylinkspage.com/&website=http://www.erccis.co.uk/birdatlas (478 words)

	Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		V.C. Bird diminished the historical importance of Henckell Dubisson, - so much so the name is relatively unknown here - real owner of the sole sugar factory here for decades established in 1904 and continuing until 1967 under their family control.
		V.C. Bird reduced to diminuendo such as Sir Alexander Moody Stuart who for some 25 years ruled the roost in Antigua controlling some 33,000 acres of land, and the sole sugar refinery in the last fretful years of King Sugar, with much of the commercial sector, including Pan American Airways, under his thumb.
		V.C. Bird himself was to bow out of politics in the pits of the Carla Samuel scandal, a scandal in which he was implicated in both design and execution as well as beneficiary.
	www.candw.ag /~jardinea/ffhtm/ff990702.htm (3357 words)

	Caribbean Ads Ltd. Forum - Sir Vere Cornwall Bird Sr.: A Life in Words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In turn, when V.C. Bird declared for independence, the PLM which had proposed independence, now led by Robert Hall (say it aint so Sir Robert), opposed independence.
		Waiting in the wings was an icy cool ice man. He would have iced Ivor Bird without breaking the rhythm of his stride...
		And immediately breached the agreement he had made with Bird at Government House, in the presence of the British Representative, Desmond Kerr.
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	►► Chief Birds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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		See live article Vere Cornwall Bird Vere Cornwall Bird (1910 - 1999) is a former Prime Minister of Antigua.
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	The Flag of the World » Blog Archive » Antigua and Barbuda: Small (corrupt) town on the water (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bird, who became Prime Minister, essentially ran the islands for most of that time, handing over power to his son, Lester Bird, when he died in 1994.
		Lester Bird, however, was apparently not as good as his father at keeping things in check, and the ALP was defeated in March by the United Progressive Party led by Baldwin Spencer and running on an anti-corruption platform.
		The Bird regime in Antigua and Barbuda is an extreme version of things we see in many small towns, and things that are happening even in less isolated countries (say, New Jersey or France).
	www.timothygoddard.com /blog/index.php?p=724 (1593 words)

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		He is the eldest son of Father of the Nation, the late Sir Vere Cornwall Bird sr., the first Prime Minister of our country.
		Vere has been responsible for establishment of a clinic in Otto’s Newtown and a Sporting Complex in the constituency.
		A fighter for the cause of the common man, Vere has dedicated himself to the service of his constituents and the people of Antigua and Barbuda.
	www.antiguaelections.com /candidates/listcandidate.cfm?ID=591 (461 words)

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		See live article Bird ringing Bird ringing (also known as '''bird banding) is the practice of identifying wild birds, by attaching a small metal or plastic ring to their legs.
		Among cage-traps may be mentioned bird-cones filled with cern and smeared with bird-lime, which adhere to the bird?s head, blinding it and rendering its capture easy; the fish-trap and lobster-pot; and the coop-traps,...
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