Sources: Teletica, La Nación and Costa Rica public holidays. The Mothers' Day public holiday, in Costa Rica, will be moved from August 15, to the following Monday, August 20, in 2007, as previously forecast, despite recent efforts by parliamentarians to make it a fixed date public holiday (see our news item of January 15).Analysis: It was a close call, as a law that would make the Costa Rica Mothers' Day public holiday non-movable was approved in commission in June, and successfully went through its first reading in Parliament on August 9. However, due to procedural matters, the second reading had to be postponed until August 14, which would have meant changing the date of the public holiday on the eve of that holiday. It is, however, almost certain that, beginning in 2008, the Mothers' Day public holiday will occur on the fixed date of August 15.
Note, also, that the recent drive in Parliament's commission, was to make 4 Costa Rica public holidays into fixed-date public holidays (see our post of June 14), with the next one coming up, being the October 12 public holiday. We will therefore stay extremely vigilant to any moves to change that public holiday into a fixed-date public holiday, in the coming weeks.
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