Nicaragua Announces July 19 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, has issued a communique announcing that Tuesday, July 19, 2011, would be a fully-paid public holiday (día de descanso obligatorio con goce de salario) for all sectors of the economy. [full story]

Honduras Restores Weeklong School Holidays

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Late last night, the government of Honduras reversed its earlier decision to cancel the upcoming, annual, weeklong holidays for schools and the educational system. [full story]

Honduras Cancels Weeklong School Holidays

Sources: El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Honduras' Minister of Education, Alejandro Ventura, has announced that the government of Honduras had decided to cancel the upcoming, annual, weeklong holidays for schools and the educational system. [full story]

Nicaragua Mothers' Day Public Holiday Update

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, has announced that Monday, May 30, 2011, would be a fully-paid public holiday (día de asueto con goce de salario) for women in the public sector who have children on account of the upcoming Día de la Madre Nicaragüense. [full story]

Honduras Declares April 20 Bank Holiday

Sources: La Tribuna (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Honduran Banks Association (Asociación Hondureña de Instituciones Bancarias-Ahiba) has announced that banks in Honduras would exceptionally be closed on Holy Wednesday, April 20, 2011. [full story]

Nicaragua Declares May 2 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez, has issued a communique declaring that Monday, May 2nd, 2011, would be a full-day public holiday in compensation of the fact that the annual May 1st public holiday falls on a Sunday in 2011. [full story]

Honduras Declares Holy Week Public Sector Holidays

Sources: El Heraldo (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The government of Honduras has officialized the declaration of a week-long, Holy Week, of public holidays for Honduras' public sector. [full story]

Nicaragua Declares 9-Day Public Sector Holidays

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, has announced that Nicaragua's public sector workers and government services would close down for 9 consecutive days of public sector holidays on account of the upcoming Holy Week (desde el sábado de Ramos al domingo de Pascua inclusive). [full story]

Honduras Considering Holy Week Public Sector Holidays

Sources: La Prensa (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Ministry of Tourism of Honduras has proposed moving the upcoming April 14 public holiday to Monday, April 18, 2011, and declaring the entire upcoming Holy Week as public holidays for Honduras' public sector employees. [full story]

El Salvador Declares March 22-23 Public Holidays

Sources: Asamblea Legislativa de la República de El Salvador (San Salvador) and El Salvador bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Earlier today, El Salvador's legislative assembly approved, by a vote of 79 out of 84 deputies, a 2-day public sector holiday, on Tuesday and Wednesday, March 22 and 23, 2011, to coincide with US President Obama's visit to San Salvador. [full story]

Honduras Year-End Bank Holidays Announced

Sources: La Tribuna (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The Honduran Banks Association (Asociación Hondureña de Instituciones Bancarias-Ahiba) has announced that banks in Honduras would remain open on the 2 one-off full-day year-end public holidays recently declared by the Government of Honduras. [full story]

Honduras Declares Year-End Public Sector Holidays

Sources: El Tiempo (Tegucigalpa) and Honduras bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Honduras' Minister of the Interior, Áfrico Madrid, at the request of the Minister of Tourism, Nelly Jerez, has decided to add four, year-end, public sector holidays for the Christmas and 2010 and New Year 2011 public holidays. [full story]

Belize Announces Official 2011 Public Holidays

Sources: Belize Ministry of National Security (Belmopan) and Belize bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). The press office of the Government of Belize has announced the official list of public holidays in Belize for the calendar year 2011. [full story]

Nicaragua Amends December 7 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, has announced that following complaints from the private sector, she had amended the terms of the upcoming December 7, half-day public holiday. [full story]

Nicaragua Announces Year-End Public Sector Holidays

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Minister of Labour, Jeannette Chávez Gómez, has announced that MITRAB (Ministerio del Trabajo) had declared public sector holidays from Friday, December 24, 2010, until Tuesday, January 4, 2011, inclusively. [full story]

Nicaragua Declares December 7 Public Holiday

Sources: Ministerio del Trabajo de Nicaragua (MITRAB) and Nicaragua bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Nicaragua's Ministerio del Trabajo (Mitrab) has declared a general public holiday for the afternoon of Tuesday, December 7, 2010, beginning at 13:00 (1pm). [full story]