Bird's career in the Cabinet was ended by scandal in 1990 after a shipment of Israeli weapons to Antigua and Barbuda were received and then diverted to the Medellín Cartel of Colombian drug dealers [REF].
The inquiry was run by Sir Louis Blom-Cooper;[REF] Bird was formally fired as a Cabinet minister on 10 May, the day Blom-Cooper arrived on Antigua [REF].