[1] Bird was a high jumper and he was the last gold medallist in that event at the British West Indies Championships in 1965.
[2] Ivor Bird also represented Antigua and Barbuda in high jump at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
[3] The director of ZDK, Antigua's government broadcasting system,[4] in 1995 Bird was caught smuggling 10 kg of cocaine through V. C. Bird International Airport with an accomplice, Marcus Alberto Chapman.
[5] 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 East Caribbean dollars bail.
[6] Having pleaded not guilty, he was represented by John Platts-Mills, Steadroy Benjamin, and David Toms, Jr.;[7] despite this representation, he was convicted on 15 May 1995 following 45 minutes of deliberations.