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Source: The Trinidad Guardian (Port-of-Spain)
Trinidad and Tobago's chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee for the upcoming Fifth Summit of the Americas, Mariano Browne, announced that closing government offices, and giving Government workers a day off on April 17, 2009, was one of the alternative measures that could be implemented if a nationwide public holiday was not granted.
Chairman Browne did, however, point out that the granting of a one-time public holiday for the Fifth Summit of the Americas in Trinidad and Tobago, next month, was still under consideration (03-Dec-2008, 13-Feb-2009, and 05-Mar-2009).
Note that another international meeting, the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM); it will also be hosted in Port of Spain, later this year, from Friday to Sunday, November 27 to 29, 2009. As we surmised when Trinidad and Tobago was chosen as the 2009 host (29-Nov-2005), we expect the first day of the upcoming CHOGM, Friday, November 27, 2009, to be declared a one-off public holiday in Trinidad and Tobago. This was the case, for example, in 2007 at the last CHOGM meeting in Uganda (15-Nov-2007).
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Trinidad and Tobago April 17 Public Holiday Update