Today, Secretaries Day, 26 April, can be considered an unofficial holiday. Most people came to work prepared for the lunchtime partying that will usually mean taking the rest of the day off. Other unofficial holidays in the DR are Easter Thursday, and the afternoons of 23 December and 24 December which precede the Christmas Day holiday. The same can be said for the afternoon of 29 December and 30 December, which precede the official 1 January holiday.
