A long weekend set for June next year, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, is among the official public holidays confirmed by the Deputy Governor’s Office on Monday.
The extra holiday for next year, set to begin on Friday, 3 June, has been gazetted to celebrate Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne, 70 years ago.
Governor Martyn Roper made the announcement in his Throne Speech before Parliament last week.
Roper revealed that, among the activities already planned for that weekend, by a committee established by Cabinet Secretary Samuel Rose, are: a concert, fireworks display, various district events, a beacon lighting, an air show and a car show, as well as a Queen’s Birthday Party and parade at the governor’s residence on Seven Mile Beach.
There are also plans to run a ‘Plant a Tree for the Jubilee’ initiative across the islands involving local schoolchildren, Roper said.
According to a media release from Government Information Services, the holiday will “further enshrine her place in history as the longest reigning British monarch. This is a title she has held since 9 September 2015, when she overtook the record set by her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria”.
The Friday holiday will be followed by the Queen’s Birthday public holiday on Monday, 6 June, which will be brought forward by a week in 2022.
The 2022 public holidays are:
Monday, 3 January – New Year’s Day observed
Monday, 24 January – National Heroes Day
Wednesday, 2 March – Ash Wednesday
Friday, 15 April – Good Friday
Monday, 18 April – Easter Monday
Monday, 16 May – Discovery Day
Friday, 3 June – Queen’s Platinum Jubilee
Monday, 6 June – Queen’s Birthday
Monday, 4 July – Constitution Day
Monday, 14 November – Remembrance Day
Monday, 26 December – Christmas Day observed
Tuesday, 27 December – Boxing Day observed
The Public Holidays (No.2) Order, 2021, which amends the Public Holidays Act (2007 Revision), can be viewed here.
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