Sixty years, and going strong!

2014 was Bellairs' 60th anniversary. You may want to read "Bellairs Research Institute celebrates 60th anniversary" from the Barbados Advocate.

Barbados recently hosted the 2014 World Environment Day (WED) global celebrations. In connection, the Bellairs Research Institute organized a public lecture and panel discussion on sustainable production and consumption of food on June 5, 2014. The final report, “Feeding Ourselves – Now and in the Future Reality or Not?” is now available, with foreword by the Rt. Hon. Freundel Stuart, Q.C., M.P., Prime Minister of Barbados, June 2015.

Visit our "From the archives" page for pictures from the early days, and for the full text of a speech given by Principal F. Cyril James in 1960 on the opening of the first new building at Bellairs.

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