Sources: Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social de Costa Rica (San José) and Costa Rican bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Costa Rica's Minister of Labour has confirmed that Monday, October 14, 2013, was not to be a non-working public holiday to compensate for the fact that this year's "Día de la Independencia" annual public holiday of Costa Rica falls on a Saturday, and that its observance would not be moved to another date ("aclaró que el lunes 14 de octubre no es feriado"). [full story]