Our Team
Our team is small and dedicated.
There's a good chance you'll speak with the same person everytime you call into the office.
You will also probably get to know us just as well as we get to know you; we think that is one of the most important parts of our relationships with our members.
OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Joycelyn Johnson
President
Alison Roach-Plummer
Vice President
Marilyn Gittens
Secretary
Albert Brandford
Assistant Secretary/Treasurer
Jamar Mayers
Director
Our Story
Our credit union was created out of a need. As a fledgeling company, The Nation Newspaper started out with a small and dedicated staff with a big vision for how they were going to bring the news to Barbados. If you ever worked for a start-up then you will know that salaries don’t start off with the big bucks. Frequent but small payday loans from the company led to an idea to form a credit union, that would be under the control of the workers.
From those early days in November of 1983 until now, Reliance Co-Operative Credit Union Limited has kept its members at the centre of everything it does. We are managed by our members but receive outside guidance from some of the island’s finest financial minds. Our board of directors is made up of five of our own regular members. A three-member Advisory Committee and a three-member Credit Committee are also part of the management structure. We are governed by a constitution that enforces term limits for key roles on the management team and we fully subscribe to the financial and legal stipulations of the Cooperatives Societies Act CAP. 378A .
Thirty-four years later we are grateful to the teams from the earlier days who set us on secure footing. They did it through volunteerism and sacrifice, qualities that are just as valuable to us now as they were then.
Our membership now stands at 615 adults and children; our assets are over BDS$11,518,510 and our loan limit is currently BDS$200,000.00.
Sure to our origins we are here to help people just like us. We are working class Barbadians; we are young couples; we are single parents and young professionals, approaching retirement and recently retired. We believe that people don't like jumping through hoops to prove that they deserve an equal opportunity to succeed.
With us, you will be treated fairly and with respect.
St. Francis Prayer
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
Reliance Co-Operative Credit Union Limited
P.O. Box 1203, “Nation House”
Fontabelle, St. Michael, BB11000
Bridgetown, Barbados