Winston Bernard Coard was born on 10 August 1944 and is a Grenadian politician who was Deputy Prime Minister in the People's Revolutionary Government of the New Jewel Movement.
16 Facts About Bernard Coard
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Bernard Coard, the son of Frederick McDermott Coard and Flora Fleming, was born in Victoria, Grenada, and is a first cousin of Hon.
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Mr Justice Dunbar Cenac's late father, Francis Cenac and the late Flora Bernard Coard were biological children of the late Isabella Cenac.
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Bernard Coard was attending the Grenada Boys' Secondary School when he met Maurice Bishop, who was then attending Presentation Brothers' College.
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Bernard Coard moved to the United States, where he studied sociology and economics at Brandeis University and joined the Communist Party USA.
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That year, he married his wife Phyllis while they were students in England, and Bernard Coard joined the Communist Party of Great Britain there.
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Bernard Coard worked for two years as a schoolteacher in London and ran several youth organisations in South London.
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Bernard Coard's thesis was widely cited, even long after his revolutionary career, as a summary of the role of institutional racism in the relationship between race and intelligence.
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Bernard Coard lectured from 1974 to 1976 at the Mona, Jamaica, campus of the University of the West Indies.
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In 1976, Bernard Coard returned to Grenada, soon becoming active in Grenadian politics.
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In 1980, Bernard Coard was the head of a delegation to Moscow to formalise relations with the Soviet Union.
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Bernard Coard was serving as the revolutionary government's Minister of Finance, Trade and Industry, as well as the Deputy Prime Minister under Bishop.
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Bernard Coard was in turn ousted by General Hudson Austin, who nominally ruled the country for six days.
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Bernard Coard was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment in 1991.
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Bernard Coard served his sentence in Richmond Hill Prison, where he was engaged in teaching and instructing fellow inmates in many subjects, including economics and sociology.
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In September 2004, the prison in which he was held was damaged by Hurricane Ivan and many inmates took the opportunity to flee, but Bernard Coard said he chose not to escape, saying he would not leave until his name was cleared.