Ghana Public Holiday December 4

Sources: Ghana News Agency (Accra) and Ghana bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Ghana's Deputy Minister of the Interior, James Agalga, has announced that Ghana's Minister of the Interior had once again declared Friday, December 4, 2015, as a statutory non-working public holiday in Ghana on account of the upcoming Farmers Day annual public holiday in Ghana, to "honor gallant Farmers and Fishers in Ghana". [full story]

Jordan Census Public Holiday November 30

Sources: وكالة الأنباء الأردنية بترا (Amman) and Jordan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). At a cabinet meeting, late last night, the government of Jordan decided to declare Monday, November 30, 2015, the first day of the upcoming 10-day 2015 population census as another one-off non-working public holiday in Jordan. [full story]

Romanian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Mediafax (Bucureşti) and Romanian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Romania has released its annual official list of 2016 non-working public holidays in Romania (zile libere si sarbatorile oficiale). [full story]

Lebanon 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Government of Lebanon has announced its annual list of official Lebanese non-working public holidays in Lebanon for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Faroe Islands 2016 Public holidays Announced

Sources: The Cabinet of the Faroe Islands (Føroya Landsstýri) and Faroe Islands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Føroya Landsstýri (governing Cabinet of the Faroe Islands) has released it annual list of the non-working public holidays in the Faroe Islands for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

New Caledonia 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Medef Nouvelle-Calédonie (Nouméa) and New Caledonia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of New Caledonia has released its annual official list of non-working public holidays in New Caledonia (jours fériés chômés) and public sector holidays in New Caledonia (services publics de la Nouvelle-Calédonie et de l'Etat) for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Serbian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Министарство рада и социјалне политике (Belgrade) and Serbia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Serbian government has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Serbia for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Vanuatu Public Holiday November 30

Sources: Government of Vanuatu (Port Vila) and Vanuatu bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Office of the President of Vanuatu has announced that Vanuatu's president, Baldwin Lonsdale, had declared Monday, November 30, 2015, as a day in lieu non-working public holiday in Vanuatu, on account the annual Vanuatu public holiday for Unity Day falling on a Sunday, in the calendar year 2015. [full story]

Bulgarian 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Република България Министерски Съвет (Sofia) and Bulgarian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bulgarian Council of Ministers has released its annual list of regular non-working public holidays and annual one-off bridge public holidays in Bulgaria for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Liberian Public Holidays November 29-30

Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Monrovia) and Liberian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has issued a proclamation declaring Sunday, November 29, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in Liberia, to commemorate the 120th Birth Anniversary of Liberia’s 18th President, Mr. William V.S. Tubman. [full story]

Belarus 2016 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Постановления Совета Министров (Minsk) and Belarus bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Council of Ministers of Belarus has approved the annual list of official non-working public holidays in Belarus in the calendar year 2016, and released the details thereof in the Government Decision No. 976. [full story]

Indonesian December 9 Public Holiday Official

Sources: Situs Resmi Kementerian Koordinator Bidang Kesejahteraan Rakyat (ANTARA) and Indonesian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Indonesian Cabinet Secretariat has announced that, as announced last summer, Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, has signed a presidential declaring Wednesday, December 9, 2015, as another one-off electoral public holiday in Indonesia on account of the Indonesian regional elections being held on that date. [full story]

Namibian Public Holiday November 27

Sources: The Namibian (Windhoek) and Namibia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Namibian Presidency spokesperson, Albertus Auchamub, has announced that, despite announcements to the contrary, President, Hage Geingob, had indeed declared Friday, November 27, 2015, as another one-off non-working public holiday in Namibia, on account of the local and regional authority elections being held in Namibia on that date. [full story]

Kenyan Papal Public Holiday November 26

Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nairobi) and Kenya bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). In another flip-flop, earlier today, Kenyan State House spokesman, Manoah Esipisu, announced that the government of Kenya had declared Thursday, November 26, 2015, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Kenya on account of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Kenya. [full story]

Guam Public Holiday November 27

Sources: The Government of Guam (Chamorro) and Guam bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Governor of Guam, Eddie Calvo, has once again declared the Friday after the upcoming Thanksgiving non-working public holiday of Guam, Friday, November 27, 2017, as a one-off GovGuam public sector holiday in Guam. [full story]

Burkina Faso Public Holidays Amendments

Sources: Ministère du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale (Ouagadougou) and Burkina Faso public holidays (qppstudio.net). Burkina Faso's Cabinet (Conseil des ministres du Conseil national de la transition) has announced that it had unanimously approved changes to the list of annual non-working public holidays in Burkina Faso, these amendments affecting the March, September and October, non-working public holidays in Burkina Faso. [full story]

Kenyan November 26-27 Papal Public Holidays Ruled-Out

Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nairobi) and Kenya bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kenyan State House spokesman, Manoah Esipisu, after a month of repeated announcements that Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, 2015, might be declared as one-off non-working public holidays in Kenya on account of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Kenya, has finally announced that the government of Kenya had opted not to declare Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, 2015, as one-off non-working public holidays in Kenya on account of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Kenya. [full story]

Uzbekistan Public Holiday December 7

Sources: O‘zA – O‘zbekiston Milliy axborot agentligi (Tashkent) and Uzbekistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The President of Uzbekistan, Islam Karimov, has signed the resolution "On shifting day-off from Saturday, 5 December, to Monday, 7 December 2015" which declares Monday, December 7, 2015, as another one-off non-working public holiday in Uzbekistan, in connection with the celebration of the Constitution Day of Uzbekistan annual non-working public holiday in Uzbekistan. [full story]

Nepal Adds New Public Holiday For Falgunanda

Sources: नेपाली गृह मंत्रालय के मंत्रालय (Kathmandu) and Nepalese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following yesterday's Cabinet meeting, the government of Nepal announced that November 11 would henceforth be an annual non-working public holiday in Nepal to mark birth anniversary of Kirat religious leader Falgunanda Lingden. [full story]

Mauritius Rejects Public Holidays Legislation Amendments

Sources: Government of Mauritius (Port-Louis) and Mauritius bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Mauritius' Parliament has passed the "Public Holidays (Amendment) Bill", but without the recent amendments which would have enshrined into law 2 new annual non-working public holidays in Mauritius. [full story]

Tongan 2016 Public Holidays Gazetted

Sources: Tonga Ministry of Information and Communications (Nuku'alofa) and Tonga bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Prime Minister's Office of the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga, has issued a gazette publication notice of its previously-announced list of official annual non-working public holidays in Tonga for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Omani 2015 National Day Public Holidays Announced

Sources: وكالة الأنباء العمانية (Muscat) and Omani bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Oman's minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, and Oman's Minister of Manpower, have announced the dates of the upcoming annual National Day annual non-working public holidays for the public sector and the private sector, respectively, in Oman, for the calendar year 2015. [full story]

Thailand December 11 Public Holiday Decision Postponed

Sources: ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bangkok) and Thailand bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Thailand's Cabinet has considered the recent proposal from Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Tanasak Patimapragorn, for Friday, December 11, 2015, to be declared as an additional public holiday in Thailand, but has postponed a decision on the matter. [full story]

Australia ACT Public Holidays Amended

Sources: ACT Government Chief Minister and Treasury Directorate (Canberra) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Legislative Assembly of Australia's Capital Territory (ACT) has voted unanimously to approve the recently-introduced amendments to the Holidays Act 1958 to make Easter Sunday an official public holiday in the ACT, as proposed by the Chief Minister of Australia's Capital Territory (ACT), Andrew Barr, and in addition to the annual list of non-working public holidays in Australia's Capital Territory. [full story]

Vietnam 2016 Public Holidays Official

Sources: Vụ Thông Tin Báo Chí - Bộ Ngoại Giao (Hanoi) and Vietnamese bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of the government of Vietnam has announced that the Vietnamese Cabinet had approved the previously-announced draft version of the initial list of annual non-working public holidays in Vietnam for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Pakistan Iqbal Day Public Holiday Legal Wrangles

Sources: Associated Press Of Pakistan (Islamabad) and Pakistan bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Pakistan's Justice, Khalid Mahmood Khan, of the Lahore High Court, has issued a notice to the federal government of Pakistan, re a petition against abolition of the annual, November 9, non-working public holiday in Pakistan on Iqbal Day, and has requested a reply from the federal government of Pakistan within three weeks. [full story]

Marshall Islands 2016 Public Holidays Released

Sources: Office of the President of the Republic of the Marshall Islands (Majuro) and Marshall Islands bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of the Marshall Islands has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in the Marshall Islands for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Saint Lucia 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Prime Minister (Castries) and Saint Lucia bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Saint Lucia has released its annual official list of non-working public holidays in Saint Lucia for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Myanmar 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of the Union of Myanmar (Yangoon) and Myanmar bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the government of Myanmar has issued an amendment to its previously-released annual list of the dates of the official non-working public holidays in Myanmar for the upcoming calendar year 2016, correcting the dates and extent of the annual 9-10 days Thingyan/Water Festival and Burmese New Year annual non-working public holidays. [full story]

Belarus 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Постановления Совета Министров (Minsk) and Belarus bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Belarus, via its First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security, Andrew Lobovich, has announced that it had finalized its annual list of official public holidays in Belarus for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Suriname November 13 Public Holiday Ruled-Out

Sources: Kabinet van de President van de Republiek Suriname (Paramarimbo) and Suriname bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Suriname, through its Minister of the Interior, Mohamed Noersalim, has issued an official statement stating that Javanese New Year (Javaans Nieuwjaar - Sasi Sura), on Friday, November 13, 2015, had not, and would not, be declared a non-working public holiday in Suriname. [full story]

Lebanon Bank Holiday November 23

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Association of Banks in Lebanon has announced that it had also decided that the annual, Independence Day, bank holiday in Lebanon, would be observed on Monday, November 23, 2015, instead of the previously-announced date of Sunday, November 22, 2015, corresponding to the annual Independence Day non-working public holiday in Lebanon. [full story]

Ukraine 2016 Public Holidays Approved

Sources: Кабінет Міністрів України (Kiev) and Ukraine bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). At yesterday's meeting, Ukraine's Cabinet has approved the previously-released draft resolution by the Ukraine's Ministry of Social Policy, specifying the annual official list of 2016 non-working public holidays in the Ukraine, as well as the postponement of some working days in 2016, "in order to create favorable conditions for the rational use of working time". [full story]

Tongan 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Tonga Ministry of Information and Communications (Nuku'alofa) and Tonga bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Tonga's Ministry of Information and Communications in conjunction with the The Prime Minister's Office of the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga, has issued a communiqué announcing its completed annual list of official non-working public holidays in Tonga for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Malaysian State Public Holiday November 22

Sources: Bernama News Agency (Johor Baru) and Malaysian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Malaysian State of Johor has declared Sunday, November 22, 2015, as a one-off state non-working public holiday in the Malaysian State of Johor, to commemorate the birthday of the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Ibrahim. [full story]

Lebanon Public Holiday November 23

Sources: جمعيّة مصارف لبنان (Beirut) and Lebanon bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Prime Minister of Lebanon, Tammam Salam, has issued a communiqué declaring Monday, November 23, 2015, as a non-working public holiday in Lebanon on the occasion of Independence Day annual, November 22, non-working public holiday in Lebanon. [full story]

Canadan November 11 Public Holiday Extension Ruled-Out

Sources: Ministère du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Solidarité Sociale du Québec (Quebec City) and Canada bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The ruling Couillard administration of the Canadian Province of Quebec has announced that, after a year of deliberations, it had decided not to declare November 11 (the "jour du Souvenir") as an official statutory non-working public holiday in the Canadian Province of Quebec. [full story]

Portugal Could Restore 4 Public Holidays Before 2018

Sources: Assembleia da República (Lisboa) and Portugal bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Following last night's forced resignation of Portugal's center-right government, the likelihood that the recent project to restore the 4 public holidays canceled 3 years ago, before 2018, the "Projeto de Lei n.º 749/XII - Restitui os feriados nacionais obrigatórios eliminados" will be approved has increased dramatically. [full story]

Dominican Republic 2016 Public Holidays Officialized

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 officially published its previously-announced annual official list of the non-working public holidays in the Dominican Republic for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Turks and Caicos 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The TCI Journal (Grand Turk) and Turks and Caicos bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Office Of Public Service Management of the Turks and Caicos Islands has released the annual list of official non-working public holidays in the Turks and Caicos Islands, for the calendar year 2016, as approved at last month's Cabinet meeting. [full story]

Israel 2016 Bank Holidays and Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The Bank of Israel (BOI) and Israel public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Bank of Israel has officially released the list of days in 2016 which will be observed as bank and public holidays in Israel, as part of its annual announcement of the "List of days in 2016 apart from Saturdays, which will be observed as Bank and Public Holidays in Israel". [full story]

Aruba 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Office of the Governor of Aruba (Oranjestad) and Aruba bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Aruba has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Aruba for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Thailand Mulls December 11 Public Holiday

Sources: ธนาคารแห่งประเทศไทย (Bangkok) and Thailand bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister, General Tanasak Patimapragorn, in an apparent reversal to last month's announcement on the matter, has announced that he is preparing to submit a proposal to Thailand's Cabinet calling for Friday, December 11, 2015, to be declared as an additional public holiday in Thailand. [full story]

Kenya Mulls November 26-27 Public Holidays

Sources: Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (Nairobi) and Kenya bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Kenyan State House spokesman, Manoah Esipisu, has announced that the government of Kenya was now considering declaring both Thursday and Friday, November 26 and 27, 2015, as one-off non-working public holidays in Kenya on account of the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to Kenya. [full story]

Montenegro 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: The Ministry of Health, Labour and Social Welfare of Montenegro (Podgorica) and Montenegro bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Montenegro's Ministry of Labor has its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Montenegro for the upcoming calendar year 2016. [full story]

Australian Victoria 2016 Public Holidays Completed

Sources: State Government of Victoria (Melbourne) and Australian bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The State Government of Australia's State of Victoria has officially completed the list of official non-working public holidays in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016, with the specific date of the "Friday before the AFL Grand Final" non-working public holiday in Australia's State of Victoria for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

St Vincent and the Grenadines Public Holiday November 17

Sources: Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines (Saint Vincent) and St Vincent and the Grenadines bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Deputy to the Governor General of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Susan Dougan, has announced that Governor General Dougan had declared Tuesday, November 17, 2015, as another one-off non-working public holiday in St Vincent and the Grenadines. [full story]

Bermuda 2016 Public Holidays Amended

Sources: Bermuda Department of Communication and Information (Hamilton) and Bermuda bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Bermuda, has released an amended version of its previously-released annual list of official non-working public holidays in Bermuda for the calendar year 2016. [full story]

Czech Republic 2016 Public Holidays Announced

Sources: Czech National Bank (Prag) and Czech Republic bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The central bank of the Czech Republic, the Czech National Bank, has announced its annual list of the twelve annual Czech bank holidays and Czech public holidays for the calendar year 2016 in the Czech Republic, based on the current legislation regulation non-working public holidays in the Czech Republic. [full story]

Suriname Public Holiday November 11

Sources: Kabinet van de President van de Republiek Suriname (Paramarimbo) and Suriname bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Suriname has confirmed that the upcoming "Divali" (aka. Diwali or Deepavali) annual non-working public holiday in Suriname would be observed on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, a date which has been declared a non-working public holiday in Suriname. [full story]