The Guimarasnons' anxiety over the oil spill in Iloilo City which reached Guimaras Island is understandable. They experienced the worst oil spill in the country in August 2006 when oil tanker MT Solar 1 sank in the waters between Guimaras and Negros islands. That oil spill 14 years go, which involved some 500,000 liters of bunker oil, economically displaced so many Guimaras fishermen and households.

Guimarasnons anxious. (2020, July 9). Panay News, p. 9.