Two holidays up this week 

TAGBILARAN CITY, June 9 (PIA)—Here is a last chance to bask in the remaining bits of summer. 

Filipinos who have not had enough of summer, get two more days to squeeze in well-deserved holiday with two more rest days within the week. 

This as Malacanang finally set the regular holiday in the Eid’l Fit’r this Friday, June 15, 2018 through Proclamation 514 which President Rodrigo Duterte signed June 6, 2018. 

This week, the two work breathers are June 12, Independence Day and June 15, Eid’l Fit’r. 

Republic Act 9177 has declared the Feast of the Ramadhan or Eid’l Fit’r as regular holiday, but owing to the feast dependent on the lunar calendar, it becomes a movable holiday and would be pegged annually. 

The National Commission on Muslim Filipinos has recommended this year’s Eid’l Fit’r declared Friday, June 15, 2018. 

The declaration, Malacanang said, aims to bring the religious and cultural significance of the feast to the fore of national consciousness of Filipinos. 

It should also give the nation a full opportunity to join the Muslim world in the celebration, the palace said. 

Proclamation 269, signed July 17, 2017, declared June 12 a regular non-working day in 2018 and acknowledges the determination of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos on the Eid’l Fit’r. 

While public schools opened Monday June 4, several private schools declared their class opening Monday, June 11. 

With two holidays, students and workers in these institutions are expected to only have three class days, and more days in their dwindling summer days count. 

In Bohol, the most common destination for holidays in this sweltering heat is the beach. 

Along this line, Provincial Health Officials have assured that the beaches in Panglao are still very safe. 

Amidst the claims that several beaches in the country have been threatened by elevated coliform presence, Bohol Provincial Health Office Water Laboratory released this week its sampling results. 

Water samples from stations in all beaches frequented by tourists in Panglao have shown well below the 20% of the coliform level deemed to cause a concern, reports Dr. Cesar Tomas Lopez of the PHO. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)

LAST CHANCE AT SUMMER. A father and daughter frolic in the water to beat the summer heat, as Filipinos are given a last chance to enjoy summer with two more days this week. Bohol Health Officials has assured the water sampling tests from the beaches in Panglao showed these are safe. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)