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1 January – New Year's Day; 3–4 March – Carnival; 30 March – Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day; 31 March – Eid al-Fitr; 18 April – Good Friday; 21 April – Easter Monday; 30 May – Indian Arrival Day; 19 June – Corpus Christi; 20 June – Labour Day; 1 August – Emancipation Day; 31 August – Independence Day; 24 ...
In Trinidad and Tobago, Indian Arrival Day is celebrated on 30 May. It commemorates the arrival of the first indentured labourers from India in May 1845 on a ship named Fatel Razack after a journey of five months, carrying 275 Indians. Trinidad and Tobago was the first country to start this holiday.
Independence Day: The day Trinidad and Tobago declared independence from the British: 24 September Republic Day: Celebrating the day Trinidad and Tobago became a Republic. Variable Eid al-Fitr: End of Ramadan. Locally taken as an official recognition of Islam. It is one of the most important holidays on the Islamic calendar and is the most ...
In Trinidad and Tobago, Labour Day is celebrated every 19 June. This public holiday was proposed in 1973 [ 34 ] to be commemorated on the anniversary of the labour riots led by Tubal Uriah Butler in 1937, part of the British West Indian labour unrest of 1934–1939 .
Public Holidays in India also known as Government Holidays colloquially, consist of a variety of cultural, nationalistic, and religious holidays that are legislated in India at the union or state levels. Being a culturally diverse country, there are many festivals celebrated in various regions across the country.
The overseas arm of India's National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) will build a digital payments system for Trinidad and Tobago, modelled after India's United Payments Interface (UPI ...
The following table is a list of countries by number of public holidays excluding non-regular special holidays. Nepal and India have the highest number of public holidays in the world with 35 annually. Also, Nepal has 6 day working schedule in a week.
Indians first arrived in Trinidad and Tobago as indentured laborers from India through the Indian indenture system from 1845 till 1917, and some Indians and other South Asians, along with their families, later came as entrepreneurs, businesspeople, religious leaders, doctors, engineers, and other professional occupations beginning in the mid ...