Cuba Declares Good Friday Public Holiday

Sources: Consejo de Ministros de Cuba (La Habana) and Cuban bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Cuba's Council of Ministers has issued a communique indicating that, as recently requested by Pope Benedict XVI, it had decided to declare Friday, April 6, 2012, the date of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, as a one-off non-working public holiday (receso laboral) in Cuba. [full story]