Sunday, March 16, 2008

Bermuda Restores May 24 Public Holiday Name To Bermuda Day

Sources: The Royal Gazette (Hamilton) and Bermuda public holidays. A few months after announcing that it would change the name of the Bermuda Day public holiday to National Heroes' Day (our post of September 19, 2007), and in face of widespread negative public reactions, the Government of Bermuda has announced that it was restoring the public holiday's name to its original form.

This means that the search for a National Heroes' Day goes on and that an additional holiday might be created for that purpose, as the current attempt at recycling another holiday did not fare so well for the government.