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Bank and Public Holidays for Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago 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 private, non-professional, use.

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23 Apr 2012 (The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian-Port of Spain) The Indian Arrival Day non-working public holiday is once again mired by controversy as the Mayor of Port-of-Spain, Louis Lee Sing, has decided that the Port-of-Spain City Corporation would not celebrate Indian Arrival Day, next month, but rather as simply Arrival Day. • 05 Mar 2012 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that the upcoming Holi festival would be celebrated on Sunday, March 11, 2012. • 04 Jan 2012 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has released the official list of 2012, 2013, and 2014, non-working public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago. • 11 Nov 2011 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that Tuesday, December 27, 2011, would be a non-working public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. • 07 Nov 2011 (The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian-Port of Spain) The head of Tobago's Masjid, Imam Shayam Yatali, has called for the declaration of the Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice) as an official non-working public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. • 14 Oct 2011 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that Wednesday, October 26, 2011, would be the date of the upcoming Diwali public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. • 15 Aug 2011 (Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday-Port-of-Spain) The Government of Trinidad and Tobago has issued a clarification on its recent, and somewhat expected, choice of Thursday, September 1, 2011, as the date of the non-working public holiday for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan). • 12 Aug 2011 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Multiculturalism, Winston Peters, has announced that Thursday, September 1, 2011, had been declared a non-working public holiday in observance of the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan). • 06 Jan 2011 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) At the at the post-Cabinet meeting news conference, Trinidad and Tobago's Foreign Affairs Minister, Suruj Ramabachan, officially ruled-out the declaration of a public holiday on Friday, January 7, 2011. • 10 Oct 2010 (Trinidad and Tobago Government Portal-Port of Spain) The Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago has announced that President George Maxwell Richards had appointed Friday, November 5, 2010, as the date of the upcoming Divali public holiday. • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Trinidad and Tobago public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: The list and dates of official public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago are regulated by The Public Holidays And Festivals Act, Chapter. 19:05 (An Act relating to Public Holidays and Festivals) of 1872 as most recently amended in 2003. • Weekend Public Holidays: When a public holiday falls on a Sunday, the holiday will be observed on the Monday immediately following. When two public holidays fall on the same day, the following day is also given as a public holiday. • Carnival: Most businesses are closed on Carnival Monday and Tuesday, even though these days are not public holidays. • Indian Arrival Day, celebrated on May 30th, commemorates the arrival of the first Indian indentured labourers from India to Trinidad, in May1845. While this event was celebrated among the Est Indian community in Trinidad and Tobago for many years, it was not until 1994 that it was made an official public holiday, when it was called Arrival Day. In 1995 it was re-named Indian Arrival Day . • Diwali is a public holiday since 1966. One of the highlights of the Diwali celebrations here is the staging of the nine-day Diwali Nagar, which attracts over 100,000 people every year. As the choice of the name Diwali (rather than Deepavali) suggests, the public holiday's date calculation in Trinidad and Tobago follows Norther Indian practice, aligning its date with that of India, rather than that of other countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, whose Indian emigrants came predominently from the Southern parts of India, and often celebrate Deepavali a day earlier. • March 30 was declared a public holiday in 1996, by former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, in honour of Spiritual Shouter Baptist Liberation Day . • The Labour Day public holiday is celebrated, in Trinidad and Tobago, on June 19, rather than the usual May 1st, to commemorate the June 19th, 1937, revolt general strike . • One-Off Public Holidays: At the discretion of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, any other date may also be declared a public holiday. • Trinidad and Tobago International Codes TT and TTO (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .tt (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Trinidad and Tobago information and news: Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (Trinidad and Tobago central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Trinidad and Tobago maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Trinidad and Tobago), and Wikipedia (includes Trinidad and Tobago commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Trinidad and Tobago, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world. Aft=Afternoon, Arm=Armenian, Bah=Bahai, Bnk=Banks and most financial institutions, Bud=Buddhist, Cat=Catholic, Chr=Christian, Cop=Coptic, Eve=Evening, Gov=Government services and civil servants, Hin=Hindu, Jew=Jewish, Lin=Linguistic or ethnic groups, Mor=Morning, Mun=Municipal, Mus=Muslim, Orth=Orthodox, Othr=Miscellaneous partial observances (usually described in the Additional Information section of this page), Prt=Protestant, Reg=Regional, Rel=Other Religion, Sch=Schools and universities, Sik=Sikh.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Trinidad and Tobago that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Trinidad and Tobago were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Hindu Calendar Public Holidays : For Trinidad and Tobago, when calculating the date of bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays based on the Hindu Lunar calendar, if the date is expunged (ie. does not occur), then we use the following existing date of the Hindu Lunar calendar. Local practice concerning expunged days may vary regionally as described in many sources, including the 1998 book The Indian Calendric System by G.K. Chatterjee.

Disclaimer
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 Trinidad and Tobago, 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 Trinidad and Tobago, before planning any trip to Trinidad and Tobago. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.