CEBU, Philippines — A mere mention of Guimaras Island readily summons images of its most popular product – mangoes! The island people take their mangoes seriously. In fact, the National Mango ...

In Photo: A welcome sign greets visitors entering Guimaras via the seaport in the municipality of Jordan, the gateway to the island province. There is more to Guimaras province than sweet mangoes.

On August 11, 2006, the oil tanker M/T Solar 1, hired by Petron Corporation, sank off the coast of Guimaras, an island province in the Philippines, spilling more than 2.1 million litres (about 555,000 ...

Mendoza formed yesterday a national board of marine inquiry (BMI) to conduct a thorough fact-finding investigation on the oil spill off Guimaras Island in Western Visayas — so far the biggest ...

The Guimaras provincial board held a meeting Monday ... acres of mangrove in Nueva Valencia and another 64.25 acres on an island marine reserve have been damaged. The oil was about four inches ...

ILOILO CITY — As Guimaras celebrated its 33rd anniversary, Gov. JC Rahman Nava emphasized the provincial government's commitment to empower the island's youth for the province's future.

Eleven days after the tanker chartered by Petron Corp., the largest oil refiner in the Philippines, sank off the island of Guimaras, an average of 25-50 gallons of oil continued to gush every hour ...

ILOILO CITY—Coastal villages on Guimaras Island are bracing for an oil spill after bunker fuel coming from a sunken cargo ship reached their shores on Monday. While a possible oil spill would be ...

Meanwhile, a fisherfolk group said yesterday close to P300 million worth of livelihood for more than 10,000 fishermen have been lost since Solar I sank off Guimaras island on Aug. 11.