Sources: Government of Sint Maarten (Great Bay) and Sint Maarten bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Sint Maarten's Minister of Education, Culture, Youth and Sports Affairs, Silveria Jacobs, has officially declared Monday, July 2, 2012, as a one-off non-working public holiday in conjunction with the recently-voted, July 1st, annual Emancipation Day non-working public holiday. [full story]