Saturday, July 4, 2009
Netherlands Antilles Urged To Declare Emancipation Day Public Holiday
Sources: Netherlands Antilles Daily Herald (Philipsburg) and Netherlands Antilles bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of the Netherlands Antilles Workers Institute for Organised Labour (WIFOL), Theophilus Thompson, and Windward Islands Civil Servants/Private Sector Union (WICSU/PSU) President, William Reed, have announced that they will lobby the government to declare Emancipation Day a public holiday.