Ivor Grenville Theophulus Bird is an Antiguan businessman and the son of

Vere Bird Sir Vere Cornwall Bird, KNH (9 December 1910 – 28 June 1999) was the first Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. His son, Lester Bryant Bird, succeeded him as Prime Minister. In 1994 he was declared a national hero. He was an officer in ...

, former

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. Bird was a high jumper and he was the last gold medallist in that event at the

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in 1965. His brother,

Lester Bird Sir Lester Bryant Bird KNH (21 February 1938 – 9 August 2021) was an Antigua and Barbuda politician and athlete who served as the second prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004. He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (AL ...

, was also a track athlete and former champion at this competition. Ivor Bird also represented Antigua and Barbuda in high jump at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. The director of ZDK, Antigua's government broadcasting system, in 1995 Bird was caught smuggling 10 kg of cocaine through V. C. Bird International Airport with an accomplice, Marcus Alberto Chapman. He was formally charged with possession of cocaine with the intent to both sell and transfer by Judge Mario Ducillo, and released on 50,000

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s bail. Having pleaded not guilty, he was represented by

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, Steadroy Benjamin and David Toms, Jr.; despite this representation, he was convicted on 15 May 1995 following 45 minutes of deliberations. He was ordered to either pay a fine of 200,000 dollars or face two years in jail, and paid the fine shortly before the court closed; he continued to serve as head of ZDK,

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