ST Scroll Back: Why some say having more public holidays could be bad for us

Longer public holiday periods can lead to traffic mayhem and deaths. More public holidays can be “bad for business”. But a durian public holiday would still be nice.

A spiky performance at the 2015 National Day Parade. While the Turkmen Melon Day is a national day rather than a public holiday in Turkmenistan, it triggers daydreams about if we could have a Singapore Durian public holiday. ST FILE PHOTO
Denise Chong
Updated
Aug 04, 2018, 06:20 PM
Published
Aug 04, 2018, 01:00 PM
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"Holidays" can be created for unhappy reasons too.

For example, in 2017, Gulf News reported that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte declared Sept 21 as a day off ahead of protest rallies planned by opponents of his bloody crackdown on the illegal drug trade.

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