{"id":2281,"date":"2026-04-16T11:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/no-extra-public-holiday-for-guernseys-liberation-day-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T08:21:13","slug":"no-extra-public-holiday-for-guernseys-liberation-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/?p=2281&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"No Extra Public Holiday for Guernsey&#8217;s Liberation Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>No Additional Public Holiday for Guernsey&#8217;s Liberation Day 2026 Confirmed<\/h3>\n<p>The States of Guernsey has confirmed that there will not be an additional public holiday for the island&#8217;s Liberation Day celebrations in 2026. This year, Liberation Day falls on **Saturday, May 9th**.<\/p>\n<p>Questions had arisen regarding whether a bank holiday in lieu would be granted, especially since the official day falls on a weekend. However, the Committee for Economic Development has decided to adhere to the precedent set in previous years, maintaining the public holiday on the Saturday itself.<\/p>\n<p>The States further clarified that the decision to offer staff a day off in lieu remains **at the discretion of individual employers**.<\/p>\n<p>#Guernsey #LiberationDay #PublicHoliday #BankHoliday #StatesOfGuernsey #EconomicDevelopment #IslandNews #May9th #ChannelIslands #HolidayAnnouncement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Additional Public Holiday for Guernsey&#8217;s Liberation Day 2026 Confirmed The States of Guernsey has confirmed that there will not be an additional public holiday for the island&#8217;s Liberation Day celebrations in 2026. This year, Liberation Day falls on **Saturday, May 9th**. Questions had arisen regarding whether a bank holiday in lieu would be granted, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vanak.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}