OVERHEARD

Delivery of the relief goods and services, however, is not moving fast enough. The choke point is that the government has been clueless on how to go about the relief operations from Day One. Consider this. Authorities won’t allow planes other than military aircraft to land at Tacloban airport.

Bypassing Tacloban, a US C-130 plane loaded with relief goods was able to land in Ormoc, Leyte and delivered its cargo to the grateful people.

Why can’t the government harness all available aircraft and just drop the relief goods to the starving populace?