NOVEMBER 2 ‘ALL SOULS DAY,’ NOT A HOLIDAY, SAID OCHOA

Filipinos wish that November 2 will be declared as a non-working holiday to visit their departed loved ones or to have long vacations and bond with families living in far provinces, but according to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr., November 2, All Soul’s Day, is not a holiday.

He said that President Aquino has not signed any proclamation declaring November 2 as a special non-working holiday. So we must go to work on November 2… haay.. .sayang.

Ochoa announced this on Tuesday while he was at the NAIA to send President Noynoy Aquino off to Vietnam for the 17th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit.