{"id":1269388,"date":"2022-12-23T12:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/govt-declares-december-27-as-public-holiday\/"},"modified":"2022-12-23T12:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T12:52:28","slug":"govt-declares-december-27-as-public-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/23\/govt-declares-december-27-as-public-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt declares December 27 as public holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"677\" height=\"523\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Holiday.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Holiday\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Government through the Interior Ministry has declared Tuesday, December 27, 2022, a public holiday.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced in a statement on the Ministry\u2019s website and signed by the sector Minister  Ambrose Dery.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe general public is hereby notified that\u00a0Sunday, 25th\u00a0December 2022\u00a0marks\u00a0Christmas Day\u00a0which is a Statutory Public Holiday.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, in view of the fact that 25th\u00a0December 2022 falls on a Sunday, His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Ghana, has by Executive Instrument (E.I), in accordance with Section 2 of the Public Holidays and Commemorative Days Act, (Act 601) declared\u00a0Tuesday, 27th\u00a0December 2022\u00a0as an additional Public Holiday and should be observed as such throughout the country,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>This means Ghanaians will have a long weekend which will start on Saturday, Christmas Eve December 24, Sunday, Christmas Day December 25, Monday, Boxing Day December 26, and Tuesday, December 27 for the Christmas festivities. <\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wfUH3ETadWE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Odomase No. 1 Traditional Council declares w@r on cattle rearing and galamsey (22-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfUH3ETadWE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government through the Interior Ministry has declared Tuesday, December 27, 2022, a public holiday. It was announced in a statement on the Ministry\u2019s website and signed by the sector Minister Ambrose Dery.\u00a0 \u201cThe general public is hereby notified that\u00a0Sunday, 25th\u00a0December 2022\u00a0marks\u00a0Christmas Day\u00a0which is a Statutory Public Holiday. \u201cHowever, in view of the fact that 25th\u00a0December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}