Monday October 13th is National Heritage Day. It is a Public Holiday and school will be closed.
Island events:
The First Ever Simultaneous Nation Wide Flag & Float Parades…
All the Islands will be celebrating National Heritage Day (NHD) on Monday October 13th. This will include schools, government departments and government the private sector and the people of Turks & Caicos. At 3 pm. there will be a Simultaneous Nation Wide “Flag & Float Parade” on all islands, utilising and decorating ANY form of moving vehicle from roller-skates to bikes, scooters, cars, vans trucks or flatbeds.
This parade will move from the communities of the Leeward, the Bight, Five Cays and Blue Hill and will converge on the Downtown Ballparks where the Premiers National Heritage Day Speech will be read. Following a few remarks by other Governments officials there will be a Soccer game hosted by TCIFA and softball games hosted by the Softball Association. There will be food vendors, music and entertainment. See http://www.gov.tc/pressoffice for more details on this event and other events throughout the National Heritage Month of October.