Award of Excellence for RBTT
By Rebecca Miller

RBTT St Lucia is the proud recipient of an Award of Excellence 2007 for Corporate Social Responsibility from the St Lucia Chamber of Commerce.
The Bank which boasts of its objective to “serve society through discharge of its obligations to those who have a stake in its operations-shareholders, customers and the general public,” has taken up the mantle of undertaking other projects in addition to its “normal” business.
One of the projects which the Bank has undertaken is the commitment of developing young people via the Young Leaders Program. The program which started in St Lucia in 1998 has been ongoing and has become an award winning program. See article feature).

Contributions
In addition to running the Young Leaders program the bank extends itself to assist those seeking educational development. The bank holds a “Deed of Covenant” with a yearly contribution of one thousand dollars ($1000.00) to CARE, an organization specializing in vocational studies for marginalized youth. A contribution was made to facilitate the modernization and refurbishment of the St Aloysius RC Boys School.
A young student was assisted in her pursuit of excellence by the staff of RBTT bank who collected the needed funds for her to obtain school requisites to attend Sir Arthur Community College.

Seeking to provide UWI students both full time and part time with greater opportunity to purchase computers to help with their education the bank introduced a special loan plan.
The no down-payment, maximum four year repayment plan seeks to lend to students with great ease and comfort. Students were advised of this opportunity through the schools website, distribution of literature through the university and the print media.
Another reduced lending program called 3-2-1 was launched in July 2007 to September 2007. With a maximum unsecured limit of EC ten thousand dollars ($10000.00), no payment for sixty (60) days and a reduced lending rate, over 50% of customers availed themselves of this facility for educational purposes.
Additionally, RBTT St Lucia has contributed meaningfully and positively to the development of communities around the island. Through The RBTT BANK “Heart of our Community” program, greater emphasis is placed non widespread impact and sustainability of social investment programs as communities are built.
When St Lucia celebrated its annual Jounen Kweyol festival, RBTT bank was right there expressing its national pride.
In October 2007, RBTT took pride in giving back to the community in a very special way. That day was called “Customer Appreciation Day and the staff and management participated in the Jounen Kweyol Celebrations, by organizing an all day treat for patrons of the bank. Anyone visiting the bank whether customer or not was welcomed with open arms. The Blind Orchestra played a very significant role in the celebrations by performing for all the visitors including the staff of RBTT.
RBTT BANK was also instrumental in bringing Jazz to the nation by providing sponsorship to thee “Jazz on the green” event held by the St Lucia Golf & Country Club (a concert to raise funds for charity).