Cuba Public Holidays News and Updates

2022 (public news feed delayed by 30 days)

• Apr
• 15
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• Cuba Declares May 2 Substitute Public Holiday

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - Cuba's Ministry of Labor and Social Security has announced the declaration of Monday, May 2, 2022, as a substitute public holiday in Cuba "since the rest corresponding to Workers' Day is transferred".
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• Jan
• 6
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• Cuban 2022 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2022, based on "artículo 96 de la Ley 116 del Código de Trabajo".
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2021

• Dec
• 22
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• Cuba Declares January 3 Substitute Public Holiday

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - Cuba's Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, has announced that the National Assembly had approved the declaration of Monday, January 3, 2022, as a substitute public holiday in Cuba "taking into account the effort made in the current year by the people, protagonists of the victories against aggressions and the pandemic, and that the first and second January holidays are a weekend".
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• Jul
• 22
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• Cuba Rules-Out July 28 Substitute Public Holiday

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - Cuba's Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social (MTSS) has announced that the annual Cuban Revolution Anniversary public holidays would be observed on July 25-26-27, 2021, but that no day in lieu, substitute, public holiday would be given to compensate July 25 falling on a Sunday ("no corresponde trasladar el descanso dominical del día 25 de julio, por ser este un día feriado").
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• Jan
• 4
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• Cuban 2021 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2021, based on "artículo 96 de la Ley 116 del Código de Trabajo".
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2020

• Dec
• 14
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• Cuban Bank Holidays December 30-31

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Minister-President of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC), Marta Sabina Wilson González, has announced that Wednesday and Thursday, December 30 and 31, 2020, will be bank holidays, due to the upcoming changes in the monetary regulation of Cuba, beginning on January 1, 2021 ("el último día bancario del año será el 29 de diciembre y se dará servicio esa jornada hasta las 7:00 p.m.").
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• Jan
• 2
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• Cuban 2020 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2020, based on "artículo 96 de la Ley 116 del Código de Trabajo".
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2018

• Dec
• 31
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• Cuban 2019 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2019.
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• Jan
• 2
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• Cuban 2018 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2018.
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2017

• Jan
• 6
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• Cuban 2017 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2017.
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2016

• Nov
• 22
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• Cuban 2016 Public Holidays Amended

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has issued the "Resolución No 23/2016 del Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social" which declares Friday, December 2, 2016, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Cuba, to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Granma.
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• Jan
• 3
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• Cuban 2016 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2016.
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2014

• Dec
• 31
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• Cuban 2015 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2015.
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• Apr
• 15
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• Cuban Public Holiday April 18

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - Cuba's Council of Ministers has issued a communique indicating that, pending the taking effect of recent changes to Cuba's public holidays legislation, it had decided to declare Friday, April 18, 2014, the date of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, as a one-off non-working public holiday in Cuba.
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• Jan
• 3
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• Cuban 2014 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of annual non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2014.
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2013

• Dec
• 20
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• Cuban Public Holidays Legislation Amended

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has approved and gazetted last year's draft version of its new Labor Law, which will enshrine the one-off religious public holidays declared over the past 15 years.
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• Aug
• 10
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• Cuban Public Holidays Legislation Changes

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released a draft version of its new Labor Law, which enshrines the one-off religious public holidays declared over the past 15 years.
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• Mar
• 18
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• Cuban 2013 Public Holidays Amended

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has amended the recently-released list of non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2013, by adding a public holiday on the date of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, for the second year in a row.
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• Feb
• 23
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• Cuban 2013 Public Holidays Announced

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has released the up-to-date list of non-working public holidays in Cuba for the calendar year 2013 and the foreseeable future.
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2012

• Mar
• 31
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• Cuba Declares Good Friday Public Holiday

  Consejo de Ministros de Cuba (La Habana) - Cuba's Council of Ministers has issued a communique indicating that, as recently requested by Pope Benedict XVI, it had decided to declare Friday, April 6, 2012, the date of the upcoming Good Friday holiday, as a one-off non-working public holiday (receso laboral) in Cuba.
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• Mar
• 28
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• Cuban Public Holiday For Good Friday ?

  ACI Prensa (La Habana) - Yesterday, during his meeting with Cuban President, Raúl Castro, Pope Benedict XVI requested that Good Friday be declared another annual non-working public holiday in Cuba.
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• Mar
• 18
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• Cuban Papal Public Holidays March 26-28

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has finally announced that it would declare public holidays from March 26 to 28, 2012, to coincide with the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Santiago de Cuba and Havana.
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• Feb
• 29
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• Cuba Papal Public Holiday Being Considered

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - The Cuban government has announced that it has not yet decided whether to declare one or more public holidays during the upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI to Santiago de Cuba and Havana, on March 26, 27 and 28, 2012.
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2011

• Dec
• 26
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• Cuba Public Holiday December 30

  Órgano Oficial del Comité Central del Partido Comunista de Cuba (Granma) - Cuba's Ministry of Labor has announced that Friday, December 30, 2011, had been declared a national non-working public holiday throughout Cuba.
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• Apr
• 26
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• Cuba Declares May 2 Public Holiday

  The Havana Times (Havana) - Cuba's Ministry of Labor has announced that Monday, May 2, 2011, would be treated as a national non-working public holiday.
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2010

• Oct
• 4
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• Cuba Declares October 11 Public Holiday

  Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba (Havana) - Cuba's Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social has issued the Resolución 30 de 2010 in the Gaceta Oficial No. 26 Extraordinaria de 2010 which declares Monday, October 10, 2010, as a day in lieu public holiday for the October 10th public holiday which falls on a Sunday in 2010.
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2007

• Nov
• 20
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• Cuba Adds 2 New End-Of-The-Year Public Holidays

  Milenio/Univision - The Government of Cuba decreed 2 new annual public holidays, December 31 and January 2, to take effect immediately (Decreto Ley No. 254 del 18 de septiembre de 2007).
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• Jun
• 19
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• Cuba Declares June 19 National Day Of Mourning For Unofficial First Lady

  Prensa Latina - The Cuban Government has declared today, Tuesday, June 19, 2007, a national day of mourning, following last night's death of Vilma Espín, Cuba's unofficial First Lady for the last 47 years.
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2006

• Dec
• 20
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• Cuba Declares January 2 One-Off Public Holiday

  Es Más (La Habana) - The Minister of Labor and Social Secutrity has decreed that Tuesday January 2, 2006, would be a one-off additional public holiday.
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1998

• Dec
• 2
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• Cuba Restores Christmas Public Holiday

  Reuters (La Habana) - Cuba's Politburo has announced that the Cuban Communist Party had asked the State Council to declare Christmas Day (December 25) as an annual public holiday for all citizens (para cristianos y no cristianos, creyentes y no creyentes).
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1997

• Dec
• 15
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• Cuban Public Holiday Christmas 1997

  Clarin (La Habana) - Cuba's Politburo has announced that the Cuban Communist Party had asked the State Council to declare Christmas Day (December 25) as an annual public holiday for all citizens (para cristianos y no cristianos, creyentes y no creyentes).
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1996

• Dec
• 2
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• Cuba To Restore Christmas Public Holiday ?

  Radio Vaticana (Holy See) - It was announced that, during Fidel Castro's recent visit to the Vatican, Pope John-Paul II had asked the Cuban leader to restore Christmas as a non-working public holiday in Cuba.
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