Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo, República Dominicana (Santo Domingo) and Dominican Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour of the Dominican Republic has issued a communiqué confirming that, as per the Dominican Republic current public holidays legislation, the upcoming Día de la Independencia Nacional public holiday would be observed as a non-working public holiday on its set date of February 27, 2013, in the Dominican Republic. [full story]