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A four-member national swim team is currently in Doha, Qatar where they will represent Antigua and Barbuda at the World Aquatics Championships scheduled to conclude on February 18. The team ...

1976 - Antigua Labour Party (ALP), led by Vere Bird, returns to power after winning the general election. 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent.

1981 - Antigua and Barbuda becomes independent. 1990 - Prime Minister Vere Bird's son, Vere Jr, removed from public office in the wake of allegations of gun-running.

For decades Antigua and Barbuda's politics was dominated by the Bird family, with Vere Bird being the country's prime minister from independence in 1981 until 1994, when he was succeeded by his son, ...