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Bank and Public Holidays for
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Related countries: North and South America
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Montserrat bank
holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from
the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database,
the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by
the world's
foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for
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New Year's Day
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New Year's Day Holiday
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Saint Patrick's Day
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Saint Patrick's Day Holiday
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Good Friday
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Easter Monday
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Labour Monday
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Whit Monday
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee
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August Monday (Emancipation Day Holiday)
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Christmas Day
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Boxing Day
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Festival Day (New Year's Eve)
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Recent News and Updates |
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14 Mar 2012 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) Montserrat's Office of the Deputy Governor has finally announced the list of public holidays, and in lieu public holidays for the year 2012 in Montserrat.
20 Dec 2011 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) Montserrat's Labour Commissioner, Claude E.S. Hogan, has announced the list of public holidays, and additional public holidays for the end of 2011 and beginning of 2012 in Montserrat.
20 Apr 2011 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) The Office of the Deputy Governor of Montserrat has announced that Friday, April 29, 2011, had been declared a non-working public holiday throughout Montserrat on the occasion of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton.
07 Jan 2011 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) Montserrat's Labour Commissioner, Denise Phillip, has issued a communique clarifying the consequences of 2011 public holidays falling on a weekend.
16 Dec 2010 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) Montserrat's Labour Commissioner, Denise Phillip, has announced the list of public holidays, and additional public holidays for the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011 in Montserrat.
27 Sep 2010 (Government of Montserrat-Brades) The Executive Council of Montserrat has approved two privileged half-day public sector holidays to allow public servants to attend the upcoming funeral services of Joseph H. Meade and Alphonsus Cassell MBE.
08 Sep 2009 (Caribbean 360-St. Michael) The leader of Montserrat's Movement for Change and Prosperity (MCAP) party, Reuben Meade, has declared a one-off public holiday following his party's victory in the same day's elections.
16 Dec 1999 (Montserrat Reporter) The Attorney General of the Government of Montserrat, Charles Ekins, has issued a statement clarifying the consequences of Christmas Day and Boxing Day both falling on a weekend this year.
10 Dec 1999 (Montserrat Reporter) An amendment to the Public Holidays Act was passed in the Montserrat Legislative Council on December 7.
More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Montserrat public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters. |
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Background Information |
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Governing Law: Montserrat's Labor Code recognizes 11 statutory holidays, but leaves the door open for additional, one-off public holidays to be declared. Interestingly, the 1999 Public Holidays Act only lists 10 public holidays, presumably lumpimg December 31st with January 1st.
St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated as a public holiday in Montserrat, in commemoration of the unsuccessful slave uprising on that day in 1768.
Montserrat International Codes MS and MSR (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ms (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Montserrat information and news: Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (Montserrat central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Montserrat maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Montserrat), and Wikipedia (includes Montserrat commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays). |
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Footnotes |
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Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Montserrat, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Montserrat, and therefore which is not included in the above list of public holidays or bank holidays. To be safe, you should also verify that no major religious holidays coincides with any planned business trip to Montserrat. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world. |
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In many parts of
the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local
authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of
2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Montserrat, we
cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented
above. You are therefore advised to verify
the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Montserrat, before planning any
trip to Montserrat. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit
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