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Opinion > Contributors
Farmers want their bank back
By Charles R. Avila
Aug 30, 2024 12:01 am

Why BBM should return the bank that PRRD took from its true beneficial owners

Last of two parts

THE crown jewel of the Coco Levy Funds was undoubtedly the UCPB, or United Coconut Planters Bank. It was meant to be an agri-bank — the bank of and for the coconut farmers and the coconut industry, but it's becoming one got postponed indefinitely till it disappeared.

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