Republic Bank introduces PMAD programme for 2025/2026

Published on December 15, 2025

Republic Bank (EC) Limited has officially launched the Power to Make a Difference (PMAD) Programme for 2025/2026.

The Bank continued to work with partners from last year and added a new member to the PMAD 2025-2026 family. 

The National Council for Persons with Disability received a check of $40,000 to aid with its aquaponics programme. The Daren Sammy Foundation received an injection of $30,000 into its scholarship programme. 

Orbtronics received $30,000.00 to advance work on its Innovation Hub. The new participant of the PMAD programme is the St. Mary’s College receiving $25,000.00 towards its robotics, coding and ICT projects.

Republic Bank’s PMAD programmes uses four criteria to determine which applicant receives support. Proposals are assessed on their “power to learn, power to care, power to help and power to succeed”.

For the past two years Saint Lucia has received over $500,000 for local PMAD initiatives. The total for the OECS region is two million dollars. For the past five years Republic Bank has allocated $6.3 million to PMAD programmes throughout the region.

Beneficiary countries are St Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts & Nevis, Anguilla, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and St. Maarten. The PMAD theme is Powered by Purpose, Transforming Communities.