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 the upcoming September 15 non-working public holiday for Costa Rica's Independence Day (194 Aniversario de la Independencia de Costa Rica) was an official non-working public holiday, as per the amended public holidays legislation of Costa Rica and that its observance would not and could not be moved to another date. [full story]