Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Jamaican August 3 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Jamaica Information Service (JIS) and Jamaica bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Director of Legal Services at the Jamaican Ministry of Labour and Social Security, Camille Bennett-Campbell, has issued a JIS news release in which she rules-out the declaration of Monday, August 3, 2015, as a one-off day in lieu non-working public holiday in Jamaica, to compensate the fact that this year's Emancipation Day annual non-working public holiday will fall on a weekend. [full story]