TWO long weekends await Boholanos, as Malacanang recently declared October 31, Monday as a special non-working holiday.
The two long week-ends, from October 29 to November 1 and from November 4 to 6, should afford Boholano families more time to bond and take to their favorite unwinding spots or test new tourism products and destinations.
This also fits as Bohol, along with the Department of Tourism has reopened tourism activities and lauched the new Farm-Fork-Fitness-Faith destinations, with the travel into Bohol now loosened.
The first long week-end, in fact stretches four days, starting with a Saturday, a Sunday and the following day, Monday with President Ferdinand Marcos declaring October 31 a special non-working holiday throughout the country.
By Proclamation No. 79, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin, by authority of the President, signed the holiday to strengthen family ties and promote domestic tourism.
Such would allow workers from the provinces to go home on the weekend and extend for two days to visit their loved ones in the cemeteries for the November 1 All Saints’ Day, which falls on a Tuesday.
Republic Act 9492, which amended section 26 Chapter 7, Book I of Executive Order No 292 or the Administrative Code of 1987 has declared certain days as special or regular holidays.
This includes November 1, All Saints’ Day, which Proclamation 1236, dated October 29, 2021 reiterated that November 1, 2022, would be treated as special non-working holiday.
In fact, in some catholic and parochial schools in Bohol, November 2, which is All Soul’s Day, is also declared by their school administration’s discretion as a non-working holiday for more time to remember their dead kin.
The second long weekend also starts on November 4, and extends to the Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6.
Republic Act 7448 has declared November 4 as Non-Working Special public Holiday in Bohol and Tagbilaran City.
The law has set aside that day of every year as Carlos P. Garcia Day, in commemoration of the birth of Bohol’s must illustrious son who became President of the Republic.
That same law also declared November 2-6 as Carlos P. Garcia Week.
In Bohol, activities for the day are usually centered in Sitio Luy-a, San Agustin Talibon, and a commemorative program in Tagbilaran.
But then, the following days, which happens to be a Saturday and a Sunday stretches the holidays to three days, thus a long week-end.
Ideal for domestic tourists, Boholanos touring the new destinations and sampling on new activities, the three day break should be more than enough to kick in the Christmas holiday fun. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
