In 1943, he became the president of the Antigua Trades and Labour Union.

Therefore, he actively encouraged the top executive of his union-the Antigua Trades and Labour Union-to run for legislative office.

In 1939, when the Antigua Trades and Labour Union ( ATLU ) was formed Bird was an executive member.

Under the leadership of George Walter and Donald Halstead, the party was emerged from the Antigua Workers Union, which was established in 1967 as a breakaway from the Antigua Labour Party-affiliated Antigua Trades and Labour Union.

Since the 1951 general election, the party system has been dominated by the personalist Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ), dominated by the Bird family, particularly Prime Ministers Vere and Lester Bird.

The Antigua Labour Party has seven seats in the House of Representatives.

The Antigua Labour 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.

He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) from 1971 to 1983, then became Prime Minister when his father, Sir Vere Bird, the previous Prime Minister, resigned.

The frequently-dominant Antigua Labour Party was in opposition for a five-year period.

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He formed the Antigua Labour Party and became the first and only chief minister, first and last premier, and first prime minister from 1981 to 1994.

The biggest criticism from the public of Antigua is the corruption and cronyism within the Labour Party and many claim the government is essentially a " family business " with the continuance of the Bird dynasty in control of political power as unquestioned.

Since then, in a rare case in modern day Caribbean politics, he led his party to an election victory in 1984 in which the Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) won all the Antiguan seats in the Legislature.

When universal adult suffrage was introduced here in 1951, the ATLU, under the banner of the Antigua Labour Party, won all seats in the legislature, a feat it repeated until 1967, making Antigua a country with a multi-party system but a freely voted one-party control.

Out of the split, the Antigua Workers Union was formed and later the Progressive Labour Movement ( PLM ), and Bird decided to resign because he felt it was not right to hold both positions.

Category: Antigua Labour Party politicians

The Antigua Labour Party ( ALP ) is the former ruling political party in Antigua and Barbuda.

In early 2009, the Antigua Labour Party faced an internal leadership crisis.

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The United Progressive Party was formed in 1992 through a merger of three parties, namely the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement, the Progressive Labour Movement and the United National Democratic Party.

Each party was in opposition to the Antigua Labour Party government.

The UPP lost one seat to the Antigua Labour Party at the 1999 general election, despite increasing its vote to 44. 5 per cent, after which it claimed fraud.

Baldwin Spencer became the first Prime Minister from outside the Antigua Labour Party in its history as an independent state.

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For a quarter century, he was a prominent labour leader with the Antigua and Barbuda Workers Union.

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Harold Lovell was Vice President of the Guild of Undergraduates at the University of the West Indies, General Secretary and then Vice Chairman of the Antigua Caribbean Liberation Movement, General Secretary of the Antigua and Barbuda Union of Teachers and Vice Chairman of the United Progressive Party ( UPP ).

On October 6, a tropical depression formed about east of Antigua, near where the previous hurricane developed.

The first storm of the season formed in the area of Antigua in early August and moved generally westward.

Arthur Lewis was born in Castries, Saint Lucia, then still a British territory in the Caribbean, as the fourth of five children of George and Ida Lewis, who had migrated from Antigua shortly after the turn of the century.

The original settlement was moved to what is now known as Antigua, at the mouth of the Huitzilpan or Antigua River shortly thereafter.

Tracking through a highly baroclinic environment, the storm became better organized, and at 1200 UTC on October 5 Klaus attained hurricane status about 30 miles ( 50 km ) east of Antigua ; shortly thereafter, it passed 12 miles ( 19 km ) east of Barbuda, its closest point of approach to the Lesser Antilles.

In June 2009 Antigua and Barbuda became a formal member of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas ( ALBA ) international cooperation organization and the Caribbean oil alliance Petrocaribe.

It became independent as Antigua and Barbuda in 1981

It became independent as Antigua and Barbuda in 1981.

After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.

The territories of the federation eventually became the nine contemporary sovereign states of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago ; with British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands becoming British overseas territories.

" In 1995, Orlando Antigua became the first Hispanic and the first non-black on the Globetrotters ' roster since Bob Karstens played with the squad in 1942-43.

On 1 November 1981, he became the first Prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda.

In 1967, Antigua became the first Eastern Caribbean island to receive the associated statehood constitution from Britain that gave internal self-government but with London remaining responsible for foreign policy and defence.

Spencer became only the second Prime Minister from outside the Bird family or their Antigua Labour Party.

He was also the governor of Antigua and Barbuda from 1967 until that country gained independence in 1981 and he became governor-general.

Shortly after Klaus attained tropical storm status early on October 4, a tropical storm warning was issued for the northern Leeward Islands from Saint Martin to Antigua, which was upgraded to a hurricane warning as its quick strengthening became apparent ; additionally, the government of France issued a tropical storm warning for Guadeloupe.

The album track " Night Boat " was a spooky, atmospheric piece to begin with, and the video became a mini-horror film shot on the Caribbean island of Antigua.

Although the closest island to Redonda is Montserrat, and the second closest is Nevis, Redonda became a dependency of somewhat further away Antigua and Barbuda in 1967.

His title then became Governor of Antigua until 1873, but the Leeward Islands continued under his governorship.

* Tropical Storm Chris ( 2006 ), became a tropical depression late on July 31 about 160 miles ( 260 km ) east of Antigua and dissipated on August 5

By 1958, just " Ocotepeque " was used to refer to the new city, and the original town became called " Antigua Ocotepeque ".