|
| |
|
2013 public holidays for April-December will be online in early 2013. |
© 1989-2012 Alter Ego
Services |
|
For professional and corporate use, you can license our database of worldwide and Ghana
public holidays and bank holidays for 2013 and future years (2014, 2015, 2016, and beyond). For details, please visit our licensing information
page or
contact us. |
|
Recent News and Updates |
|
18 May 2012 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, William K. Aboah, has announced that Friday, May 25, 2012, had been declared a non-working statutory public holiday in Ghana to mark African Union Day.
• 28 Mar 2012 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, William K. Aboah, has announced that Friday, April 6, and Monday, April 9, 2012, had been declared non-working statutory public holidays in Ghana to commemorate the upcoming holidays of Good Friday and Easter Monday.
• 28 Feb 2012 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister For The Interior, William K. Aboah, has announced that Tuesday, March 6, 2012, would be a non-working public holiday in Ghana in commemoration of Ghana's Independence Anniversary.
• 25 Jan 2012 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's government has released the official list of non-working public holidays in Ghana for the upcoming year 2012.
• 21 Dec 2011 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) Ghana's Minister of the Interior, Benjamin Kunbour, has issued a statement setting forth the official non-working public holidays in Ghana for the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012, in view of the fact that both the upcoming Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall on a Sunday.
• 28 Nov 2011 (Ghana Government Portal-Accra) A statement from Ghana's Ministry of the Interior, signed by Sector Minister, Benjamin Kunbour, has announced that Friday, December 2, 2011, had been declared a statutory non-working public holiday throughout Ghana on account of the upcoming Farmers Day.
• 02 Nov 2011 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) The President of Ghana, John Evans Atta Mills, has issued an Executive Instrument which declares Monday, November 7, 2011, as an additional non-working public holiday for the upcoming Eidul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).
• 08 Oct 2011 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) The Public Relations Officer of Ghana's Ministry of Education, Paul Krapah, has added his support to the current call to have Teachers' Day declared as a new annual non-working public holiday in Ghana.
• 19 Sep 2011 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) Ghana's Deputy Minister, Kwabena Akyeampong, has announced that Wednesday, September 21, 2011, marks Founder’s Day which will be observed as a non-working public holiday throughout the country.
• 26 Aug 2011 (Ghana News Agency-Accra) Ghana's Minister for the Interior, Benjamin Kunbuor, has announced that his ministry had declared Wednesday, August 31, 2011, as the date of the upcoming Eid-Ul-Fitr (End of Ramadan) public holiday in Ghana.
• More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Ghana public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters. |
|
|
Background Information |
|
Governing Law: Official public holidays in Ghana are regulated by section 1 of the Public Holidays Act, 2001 (Act 601), which replaced the 1995 Public Holiday (Amendment) Act (Act 507), which in turn had amended the Public Holidays Law, 1988 (PNDCL 220).
• Eid al Fitr was made a public holiday in Ghana following the 1995 Public Holiday (Amendment) Act (Act 507).
• Farmers' Day: Employing around 60 percent of Ghana’s work force, agriculture is a labour-intensive sector, and farming still accounts for some 37 percent of Ghana’s gross domestic product, and 35 percent of its export earnings. The first Farmers' Day, in Ghana, was held at Osino in the Eastern Region, in 1985 .
• June 4: June 4 was a public holiday until 2000 when it was removed from the list of public holidays by the NPP (New Patriotic Party). A last-ditch effort was made in late-May 2001, by the NDC (National Democratic Congress) to restore it, but the amendment failed to pass on June 1, 2001, and the issue has not resurfaced seriously since then.
• Ghana International Codes GH and GHA (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .gh (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Ghana information and news: Bank of Ghana (Ghana central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Ghana maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Ghana), and Wikipedia (includes Ghana commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays). |
|
|
Footnotes |
|
* |
Religion of Specific Business Contacts : Some of the business contacts that you may be trying to meet in Ghana, may belong to a religious group that is not common in Ghana, 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 Ghana. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world. |
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
2013 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Ghana, 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 Ghana, before planning any
trip to Ghana. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit
our
worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free
email newsletters. |
Animated flag graphics courtesy of
3DFlags.com.
|
