Bird concedes defeat as Antiguan prime minister
The Caribbean island's new leader, union leader Baldwin Spencer, danced a traditional jig to a calypso beat and promised to punish "crimes against the people".
With all votes counted, preliminary results showed Spencer's United Progressive Party swept to victory with 12 of 17 parliamentary seats. Mr Bird himself was unseated by Errol Cort, a former attorney general fired by Mr Bird in 2001.