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Lawyer Danny Hagad of PASPI even offered a possible option — allow the sugar farmers to share in the payable loans and give them the chance to free up mortgaged properties.


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PNB president and chief executive officer Omar Byron Mier said in a press statement "there are no discriminatory provisions in the documents covering the agreement; PNB and the BSP have been transparent regarding the provisions of the MOA as well as the  way these are being implemented."


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Top officials of PASPI, Manny Lacson and businessman-banker-farmer Titus Abello, earlier presented the plight of the sugarmen to Finance Secretary Margarito Teves.


Lacson, Abello and other key officials of the organization were, however, not in Manila for the second round of talks with Teves over the PNB sale.


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Make-or-break meet on PNB sale

By THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina | August 11, 2005 - 12:00am

Today, Finance Secretary Margarito Teves will preside a make-or-break meeting between officials of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and Philippine National Bank and key officers of the Planters Against Plunder...

Nation

PNB claims fair sugar agreement

August 9, 2005 - 12:00am

The Philippine National Bank (PNB) is assuring a group of sugar planters that the provisions of the memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is "fair, transparent and above board". PNB...

Banking

Sugar farmers buck BSP-PNB ‘sweetheart deal’

By THE SOUTHERN BEAT By Rolly Espina | August 4, 2005 - 12:00am

It is amazing how sugar farmers, some 4,000 of whom are members of the Planters Against Plunder in the Sugar Industry, have been frantically trying to stop the sale of Philippine National Bank (PNB) shares worth...

Nation