Senator Manuel Roxas went to the Dumaguete Public Market yesterday, and held dialogs with drivers and discussed various pressing issues in the country.

In his speech, Roxas reiterated his proposal to remove the value-added tax on fuel, which, he said, has greatly burdened the transport sector.

Roxas said it’s about time for Malacañang to hear the plea of the transport sector.  On the cheaper medicine bill, Roxas said the Senate is 90 percent in agreement and the rest lies in the generic provisions of the bill.

He said physicians have the option to prescribe the best medicine for their patients, whether they be generic or branded.

On geothermal power, Roxas said that Negros Oriental should have a special power price for all electric consumers, and revenues should be placed in a special fund for the host municipalities, cities or province.

The senator was welcomed at the market complex in the company of partymates, Councilor Antonio Remollo, Vice Mayor Woodrow Maquiling, the director of the Jovito R. Salonga center for Law and Development Mikhail Maxino, and former mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo, head of the Liberal Party in Negros Oriental.

Roxas was also guest speaker at a university convocation held at the Silliman University Luce Auditorium where he spoke on the subject “Law and Development.”*RG

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