Paraguay Double May Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Presidencia de la República del Paraguay (Asunción) and Paraguay bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Paraguay's President, Fernando Lugo, has finally signed into law the Ley 4531 which declares May 14 as a new additional annual non-working public holiday to commemorate the beginning of Paraguay's independence. [full story]

Chilean Congress Considers July 4 Holiday

Sources: Tramitación de proyectos (Congreso Nacional de Chile) and Chile bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A bill has been introduced in the Chilean lower house of Parliament (Cámara de Diputados) to declare July 4 an annual holiday commemorating the first sitting of Chile's Congress in 1811. [full story]

Venezuelan CELAC Public Holiday Declared December 2

Sources: Ministerio del Poder Popular para Relaciones Exteriores (MPPRE) and Venezuela bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Venezuela has declared Friday, December 2, 2011, as a one-off public holiday on account of the upcoming Summit of Latinamerican and Caribbean countries (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños - Celac). [full story]

Lebanon 2012 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Government Portal for Information and Forms (Republic of Lebanon) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Lebanon has announced the list of official Lebanese public holidays for 2012. [full story]

Grenada 2012 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Prime Minister of Grenada (St George's) and Grenada bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Grenada has released its official list of public holidays, for the calendar year 2012. [full story]

Nicaragua Declares December 8 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Ministerio del Trabajo (Mitrab) has declared a general public holiday (para todos los trabajadores del sector público y privado) on Thursday, December 8, 2011, on account of the upcoming Immaculate Conception (celebraciones de La Purísima) public holiday. [full story]

South Sudan New Public Holiday December 1st

Sources: Government of South Sudan (Juba) and South Sudan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir, has declared Thursday, December 1st, 2011, as a non-working public holiday throughout South Sudan on the occasion of the upcoming World AIDS Day. [full story]

Indian Public Holiday In Assam Tomorrow

Sources: Daily News and Analysis (Guwahati) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the Indian State of Assam has declared a one-off non-working public holiday on Wednesday, November 30, 2011, to allow people to pay their last respects to writer Indira Raisom Goswami who died earlier today. [full story]

Saint Lucia Electoral Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Office of the Prime Minister (Castries) and Saint Lucia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). SLP Leader and Saint Lucia's Prime Minister designate, Kenny Anthony, has announced that contrary to tradition, he would not declare tomorrow, Tuesday, November 29, 2011, a one-off post-election public holiday. [full story]

Australia NT Additional Public Holiday In January

Sources: Office of the Commissioner for Public Employment of the Northern Territory Government (Darwin) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Australia's Northern Territory has gazetted Sunday, January 1, 2012, as a additional public holiday, in addition to the 2012, January 2, day in lieu public holiday on the following Monday. [full story]

Ghana Public Holiday December 2

Sources: Ghana Government Portal (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A statement from Ghana's Ministry of the Interior, signed by Sector Minister, Benjamin Kunbour, has announced that Friday, December 2, 2011, had been declared a statutory non-working public holiday throughout Ghana on account of the upcoming Farmers Day. [full story]

Dominica Declares National Mourning

Sources: Dominica News Online (Roseau) and Dominica bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Dominica's Office of the Prime Minister has announced that a day of national mourning would be declared on the date of the funeral of Cadence legend Jeff Joseph. [full story]

Bangladesh 2011 Ashura Public Holiday December 6

Sources: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS) and Bangladesh bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bangladesh's National Moon Sighting Committee has announced that it had sighted the New Moon crescent last night and, therefore, that the upcoming Ashura, and related public holiday, would be observed across the country on Tuesday, December 6, 2011. [full story]

Liberian Public Holiday November 29

Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Monrovia) and Liberian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has issued a proclamation declaring Tuesday, November 29, 2011, as a non-working public holiday to be observed throughout the Republic as a national holiday. [full story]

Spain 2012 Balears Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Dirección General de Trabajo (Consell de Govern) and Spain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Spain's autonomous region of the Balears has finally gazetted its official calendar of 2012 regional and national public holidays (calendario laboral). [full story]

Bolivian Year-End Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Agencia Boliviana de Información (La Paz) and Bolivia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bolivia's Ministry of Labour has announced that Monday, December 26, 2011, and Monday, January 2, 2012, had been declared one-off non-working public holidays throughout Bolivia (serán los días feriados de los cuales podrá gozar la población en el país). [full story]

Australia Public Holiday To Commemorate 2011 Floods

Sources: Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A public holiday has been declared in Australia's State of Queensland on Tuesday, January 10, 2012, to commemorate the first anniversary of the flash floods that occurred at the beginning of this year in Queensland's Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane. [full story]

Guyana Electoral Public Holiday November 28

Sources: Guyana Government Information Agency (GINA) and Guyana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Guyana has finally decided to declare a one-off non-working public holiday on Monday, November 28, 2011, the date of the upcoming National and Regional Elections. [full story]

Egyptian Bank Holidays November 27-28

Sources: الأهرام (Cairo) and Egyptian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Egypt's Central Bank has announced that all Egyptian banks would be closed on Sunday, November 27, 2011, which has been declared a bank holiday in Egypt on account of the upcoming El Hijra (Islamic New Year). [full story]

UAE Hijri And National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة أنباء الإمارات (WAM) and UAE bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The UAE's Board Chairman of the Federal Authority for Government Human Resources, Humaid Al Qattami, has announced the dates of the upcoming combined Hijri New Year and National Day public holidays in the United Arab Emirates [full story]

Bahrain 1433 Hijra New Year Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة أنباء البحرين (BNA) Bahrain bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Bahrain's Prime Minister, Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, has issued a circular announcing the dates of the upcoming Hijra (Islamic) New Year non-working public holidays in Bahrain. [full story]

Iraq 2011 Islamic New Year Public Holidays Announced

Sources: الوكالة الوطنية العراقية للأنباء - نينا (Baghdad) and Iraqi bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Iraq's Secretariat of the Council of Ministers has announced that Sunday, November 27, 2011, would be an official public holiday on account of the upcoming Hijra new year 1433. [full story]

Bonaire Kingdom Day Public Holiday Confirmed

Sources: Openbaar Lichaam Bonaire (Kralendijk) and Bonaire, St Eustatius and Saba bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bonaire government has confirmed that the December 15, Kingdom Day, public holiday would remain a non-working public holiday in Bonaire. [full story]

Guyana Electoral Public Holiday Push

Sources: Guyana Government Information Agency (GINA) and Guyana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Guyana's Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) have called on the government of Guyana to declare Monday, November 28, 2011, the date of the upcoming general elections, a national non-working public holiday. [full story]

Kuwait 1433 Hijra Public Holidays Announced

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kuwait's Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, Ali Al-Rashid, has announced that the Kuwaiti Cabinet had decided to declare Saturday and Sunday, November 26 and 27, 2011, as non-working public holidays at all ministries and state departments on account of the upcoming Hijra New Year 1433. [full story]

Macedonia Declares November 23 Public Holiday

Sources: Министерство за труд и социјална политика (Skopje) and Macedonian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Macedonia's Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has announced the declaration of Wednesday, November 23, 2011, as the 8th Tree-Planting national non-working public holiday. [full story]

Oman Bank Holidays Announced For 2011 National Day

Sources: The Central Bank of Oman (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) has announced that all Omani banks will remain closed on Sunday and Monday, November 27 and 28, 2011, on account of the upcoming New Hijri Year 1433 AH and the 41st National Day. [full story]

Malaysian SEA Public Holidays Ruled-Out

Sources: The New Straits Times Press (Kuala Lumpur) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak, has ruled-out the announcement of a one-off public holidays to celebrate the victory of the Malaysian football team at the the SEA Games. [full story]

Kuwait Public Holiday Expected November 26

Sources: الكويت جنة الخدمة المدنية (Kuwait City) and Kuwaiti bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Reports from the Kuwaiti Civil Service Commission are that it has submitted an official letter to the Kuwaiti Council of Ministers asking it to declare Saturday, November 26, 2011, as a non-working public holiday in commemoration of the upcoming Hijra New Year. [full story]

Oman 2011 National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة الأنباء العمانية (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Oman's Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court and President Civil Service Board, Khaled Bin Hilal Bin Saud Al Busaidi, has announced that the upcoming public sector holidays for the 2011 Omani National Day and Hijri New Year would be from Thursday to Monday, November 24-28, 2011, inclusively. [full story]

Philippines Bonifacio Day Public Holiday Change Ruled-Out

Sources: Philippine Information Agency (Manila) and Philippines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Malacañang, the Philippines' Presidential Palace, has issued a statement ruling out the move of the upcoming Bonifacio Day public holiday from its announced date of Wednesday, November 30, 2011, to the nearest weekend as many had expected based on Republic Act 9492. [full story]

Bénin Declares November 18 Public Holiday

Sources: Site Officiel du président Béninois Boni Yayi (Cotonou) and Bénin bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Bénin has declared Friday, November 18, 2011, as a paid non-working public holiday (journée déclarée chômée et payée sur toute l’étendue du territoire national) to coincide with Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cotonou. [full story]

Afghanistan Public Holidays November 17 and 19

Sources: آژانس خبرى پژواك (Kabul) and Afghanistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, has declared Thursday and Saturday, November 17 and 19, 2011, as one-off municipal public holidays on account of the upcoming 4-day Loya Jirga being conducted in Kabul. [full story]

Bulgarian 2012 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: РЕПУБЛИКА БЪЛГАРИЯ МИНИСТЕРСКИ СЪВЕТ (Sofia) and Bulgarian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has released the list of regular non-working public holidays and additional bridge public holidays for the calendar year 2012. [full story]

Indonesian Jakarta Electoral Public Holiday In 2012

Sources: Antara News Agency (Jakarta) and Indonesian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Jakarta's General Elections Commission (KPU) has asked Jakarta Governor, Fauzi Bowo, to declare a one-off public holiday in Jakarta, Indonesia's political and economic Capital, on Wednesday, July 11, 2012, on the date of the upcoming Jakarta Regional Head election (Pemilukada). [full story]

Senegal 2012 Public Holiday For Magal de Touba

Sources: Dakar Online (Dakar) and Senegalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). According to the entourage of Senegalese President, Abdoulaye Wade, a presidential decree is currently being drafted declaring the Magal de Touba as a new annual non-working public holiday (jour férié, chômé et payé) in Sénégal. [full story]

Portugal Public Holidays Revision Update

Sources: Agência Efe (Lisboa) and Portugal bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). A spokesperson for the Portuguese Episcopal Conference, padre Manuel Morujão, has announced that, as part of the upcoming public holidays revision, the Portuguese Catholic Church was considering the cancellation of the, August 15, Assumption Day, religious non-working public holiday. [full story]

Vietnam 2012 Hung Kings Public Holiday Announced

Sources: Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Hanoi) and Vietnamese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the government of Vietnam has completed the official public holidays in Vietnam for the calendar year 2012 by announcing the date of the 2012 Hung Kings' non-working public holiday. [full story]

Brazil November 20 Holiday Officialized

Sources: O Globo (São Paulo) and Brazilian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Brazil's President, Dilma Rousseff, has signed into law the recently-approved bill making November 20 a new annual national holiday in Brazil, commemorating the "Dia Nacional de Zumbi e da Consciência Negra". [full story]

India 2012 Goa Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Vasco de Gama) and Indian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of India's state of Goa has announced the days which will be non-working public holidays for the calendar year 2012. [full story]

Trinidad and Tobago Public Holiday On December 27

Sources: Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday (Port-of-Spain) and Trinidad and Tobago bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that Tuesday, December 27, 2011, would be a non-working public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. [full story]

Australia Declares 2 Year-End NT Public Holidays

Sources: Northern Territory Government (Darwin) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Australia's Northern Territory has gazetted the upcoming Christmas Day and New Year's Day as public holidays, in addition to this year's day in lieu public holidays on the following Monday. [full story]

Hong Kong 2013 Public Holidays Changes

Sources: 香港政府一站通 (HKSAR) and Hong Kong bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government has announced that it will gazette tomorrow an amendment to the manner in which the Lunar New Year and Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival non-working public holidays are determined.. [full story]

Antigua and Barbuda Remembrance Day November 13

Sources: Government of Antigua and Barbuda (St. John's) and Antigua and Barbuda bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Antigua and Barbuda has announced that the upcoming, November 11, Remembrance Day, holiday would be observed on Sunday, November 13, 2011. [full story]

Bhutan Public Holiday December 26

Sources: Kuensel (Thimphu) and Bhutan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Election Commission of Bhutan has announced that a non-working public holiday would be declared on Monday, December 26, 2011, on account of the upcoming local government elections. [full story]

Sierra Leone Rules-Out Public Holiday On November 11

Sources: State House Press Secretariat (Freetown) and Sierra Leone bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Sierra Leone's Acting Minister of Information and Communications, Sheka Tarawalie, has issued a statement ruling-out the rumours that Friday, November 11, 2011, would soon be declared a one-off non-working public holiday in Sierra Leone. [full story]

Australian 2012 Queensland Public Holidays Changes Published

Sources: The State of Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General (Brisbane) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Department of Justice of Australia's State of Queensland has published a revised schedule of 2011-2014 state public holidays following last week's announced revision of Queensland state public holidays beginning in 2012. [full story]

Tobago Eid al-Adha Public Holiday Call

Sources: The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian (Port of Spain) and Trinidad and Tobago bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The head of Tobago's Masjid, Imam Shayam Yatali, has called for the declaration of the Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) as another official non-working public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. [full story]

Alderney 2012 Jubillee Public Holiday Under Consideration

Sources: States of Alderney (British Channel Islands) and Guernsey bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The chairman of Alderney's Policy and Finance Committee, John Beaman, has announced that the States of Alderney (the Alderney government) would also consider the declaration of an additional public holiday next year to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. [full story]

Nepalese Public Holiday For 2011 Eid al-Adha

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). In a surprise last-minute move, the government of Nepal has declared Monday, November 7, 2011, as a nationwide non-working public holiday on account of the upcoming Eid al-Adha, (aka. Bakr Eid or Feast of Sacrifice). [full story]