SMUGGLED ONIONS. The Bureau of Plant Industry in the Caraga Region starts the destruction Thursday (Sept. 8, 2022) of some 12,000 kilos of smuggled white onions seized at the port of Surigao City. The contraband was seized Monday (Sept. 5, 2002) while loaded inside a 10-wheeler truck bound for Tacloban City (Photo grabbed from Philippine Ports Authority - Port Management Office Surigao Facebook Page) BUTUAN CITY - The destruction of some 12,000 kilos of smuggled white onions recently intercepted at the port of Surigao City started Thursday, an official of the Bureau of Plant Industry in the Caraga Region (BPI-13) said. In an interview, Rayme Ladao, BPI-13 plant quarantine officer, said the contraband was seized at the Surigao port on Monday. The onions, placed in 1,498 net bags, were loaded in a 10-wheeler truck from Cagayan de Oro City bound for Tacloban City. It has an estimated market value of PHP6 million, the BPI-13 said. "The transportation of the white onions has no authori
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one of the main roads in tacloban. it used to be fine houses and shops. it is now lined with debris of this once bustling city. with its still uncollected dead. philippine troops are pouring in to tacloban. paul kennedy leading the u.s. effort said security is a growing concern now. you are going to have probably flare-ups of violence. you know, the longer that we drag out our ability to support them, support these communities, the more they are going to get frustrated. reporter: but the real killer here now is disease. the children, the most vulnerable. at the shattered tacloban hospital, a mother cradled her dead infant. i just told my baby, i am sorry. she says. we don t have money. and we don t have anyone to help us. reporter: in a neighborhood nearby, mary rose has five children and they are all sick, feverish, hungry, lethargic. they have fever. they have fever. hello, little one. yes. you don t know.
that is usually a treatable disease, a treatable condition. in this case, marie rose whose children are now sick doesn t know where to take them for medical attention and it is that lack of a centralized relief operations headquarters that is posing a real threat. people don t know where to go for the basic food, water, shelter and of course medical attention. the situation is very much day by day. roads are being cleared in tacloban. we were able to drive to the outer city limits and that s a good thing. that means vehicles can get where they need to go. it is a step forward and one of the first. there have been reports of violence, of gun fire as people simply resort to things they wouldn t normally do. because they are faced with things like getting a bottle of water for their own child. they will go to great lengths to do that. here we are, six days in, aid is arriving but you are looking at a lack of a coordinated management effort.
possibly no fault of anyone on the ground. there are so many organizations there military forces trying to get this up and running. it is simply overwhelming for most people. gloria, we understand, obviously, there s so many infrastructure issues but there s been a lot of criticism about response times. have you seen any of these evidenced in what you are looking at? reporter: the first day we headed in, as we flew in with the military, i think what was clear to everyone a few days in is no one had a sense of how massive this incident was. it is hard to get that sense unless you were on the ground. the philippine forces were flying in c-130 aircraft with supplies on them from the first day after as soon as they could get there. but when they got there, a lack of a local government, because the mayor of tacloban, his own staff, they were worried about their own families. several government officials