{"id":10760,"date":"2011-11-05T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=10760"},"modified":"2011-11-05T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T02:55:00","slug":"consulate-closed-for-4-days-this-nov-for-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/consulate-closed-for-4-days-this-nov-for-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Consulate closed for 4 days this Nov. for holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Clarissa David<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The Philippine Consulate General on Saipan will not be open to the public several days this month in observance of holidays in the Philippines, CNMI, and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The office will be closed on Monday, Nov. 7, after Philippine President Benigno Aquino III issued Proclamation No. 84 declaring it a holiday in observance of Eidul Adha or Feast of Sacrifice, one of the two most important Islamic festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Included in the proclamation is the observance of Bonifacio Day on Nov. 30 in honor of Philippine revolutionary hero Andres Bonifacio.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate will also be closed in observance of two annual federal holidays: on Nov. 11, Veterans Day, which honors military veterans; and Nov. 24, Thanksgiving Day, celebrated every fourth Thursday of the month and one of the major holidays in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Consul General Medardo Macaraig told the Filipino community to be guided accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring these days, registration and certification for overseas absentee voters shall also be suspended and shall resume the following work day,\u201d said Macaraig.<\/p>\n<p>The Consulate, however, will be open for its One-Saturday or Sunday-A-Month services on Nov. 19, Saturday, from 9am to 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Consulate at 234-1850, fax 234-1849 or email saipanpcg@pticom.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clarissa David Reporter The Philippine Consulate General on Saipan will not be open to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maharlika"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}