10/03/2024
Good Evening Everyone! There will be class tomorrow (March. 11, 2024).
According to PNA or (Philippine News Agency )
Official Gazette : No Holiday Decleration on March 11, 2024
by: Ruth Abbey Gita-Carlos
There is no declaration from President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. that Monday, March 11, is a โnationwide regular holiday.โ
In a statement posted on its official page on Thursday, The Official Gazette dismissed as โfake newsโ the supposed holiday declaration on March 11, in view of the Eidโl Fitr celebration.
The public advisory was issued after the circulation of a Proclamation 729 allegedly released by Malacaรฑang declaring March 11 as a holiday.
โThe circulating document labeled โProclamation No. 729,โ which purportedly declares Monday, March 11, 2024, as a nationwide regular holiday in celebration of Eidโl Fitr, is spurious,โ the statement read.
โIt is a tampered version of Proclamation No. 729, s. 2019, issued by then Executive Secretary Medialdea during the previous administration.โ
Eidโl Fitr, one of the two most important Islamic celebrations, is observed by the Muslim community after the month-long Ramadan fasting.
Under Republic Act 9177, a regular holiday is declared nationwide to allow the country to celebrate Eidโl Fitr.
The holiday is determined by the use of the lunar-based Islamic calendar through the sighting of the crescent moon in the Islamic month of Shawwal. (PNA)
