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In 2008, of the 663,900 male pupils who joined Class One, about 70 per cent sat for their KCSE in 2015, compared to 71 per cent of the 652,200 girls who joined Class One in the same period.
There was however, a slight variation in 2017 with the completion rate of boys and girls on equal footing at 68 per cent.
This was, however, a drop in both gender compared to 2016 where 71 per cent of boys and 73 per cent of girls who joined Class One in 2009 sat for KCPE in 2016.
Some of the counties where the number of girls exceeded boys by the biggest margin include Kakamega and Meru, where out of every two girls there was one boy sitting exams. Other counties are Embu, Vihiga and Bungoma.
“Majority of the male pupils in these counties abandon school to venture into economic activities, including mining, fishing and cross-border trade,” said Peter Kubebea, chairman of the National Taxpayers Association which recently conducted an audit on gender enrolment in primary schools.
However, all the northern counties of Garissa, Turkana, Mandera and Wajir are an exception. In the five years under review — 2006-2010 — the number of boys who completed primary education by sitting for KCPE outnumbered their female counterparts.
In a few other counties such as Baringo, Samburu, Marsabit and West Pokot, the number of male candidates is higher than that of girls.
The better completion rates for boys in these regions may be a pointer to culture and hardships.
More than the completion rate, the performance of girls in the national examinations has been improving.
This is evident from the fact that out of the 35 top ranked candidates in the 2017 KCPE, 22 were girls while only 13 boys made it to the list.
After dropping to the lowest level in 48 years in the last quarter, the homeownership rate in the United States increased during the third quarter, according to data from the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau.
The latest quarterly report on residential vacancies and homeownership showed that the national rate of homeownership rose to 63.7% in the third quarter, climbing from 63.4% in the second quarter, which was a 48-year low.
The increase during the third quarter was the first time the homeownership rate increased in two years.
Despite the increase, the third quarter’s homeownership rate was still below the same time period last year, when the homeownership rate was 64.4%.
The overall increase came mostly from the Northeast region, where the homeownership rate rose from 60.2% in the second quarter to 60.8% in the third quarter.
The South also rose from 64.9% in the second quarter to 65.4% in the third quarter.
The West region also posted a small increase, rising from 58.5% to 58.7%, while the Midwest posted decreases in the third quarter.
According to the Census report, the homeownership rate in the Midwest fell in the third quarter from 68.4% to 68.1%.
The homeownership rate in the Northeast was lower than the rate one year ago, while the rates in the Midwest, South and West were not statistically different from the rates in the third quarter 2014, the Census Bureau said in its report.
Click the image below for the trend of homeownership on a national basis since 1995.
Additionally, the Census Bureau report showed that the homeownership rate for householders 35 and younger rose in the third quarter, from 34.8% in the second quarter to 35.8% in the third quarter.
For householders from 35-44 years of age, the homeownership rate rose slightly, from 58% to 58.1%.
For householders from 45-54 years of age, the homeownership rate held steady at 69.9%.
For householders from 55-64 years of age, the homeownership rate fell slightly, from 75.4% to 75.3%.
For householders 65 years and older, the homeownership rate also rose slightly, from 78.5% to 78.7%.
The rates for householders 35 to 44, 55 to 64 and 65 years and over were lower than the third quarter 2014 rates, while the rates for householders under 35 and 45 to 54 were not statistically different from the rates a year ago, the report showed.
Additionally, The homeowner vacancy rate was highest outside metropolitan statistical areas (2.5%).
The rates inside principal cities (1.9%) and the suburbs (1.7%) were not statistically different from each other, the report showed.
The homeowner vacancy rate outside MSAs was higher than a year ago, while the rates inside principal cities and in the suburbs were not statistically different from the rates last year.
The homeowner vacancy rate in the South (2.1 percent) was higher than the rates in the Midwest (1.7%) and West (1.5%), but not statistically different from the rate in the Northeast (2%). The homeowner vacancy rate in the Northeast was higher than a year ago, while the rates in the Midwest, South and West were not statistically different from the rates last year.
Approximately 87.1% of the housing units in the United States in the third quarter 2015 were occupied and 12.9% were vacant.
Owner-occupied housing units made up 55.5% of total housing units, while renter-occupied units made up 31.6% of the inventory in the third quarter 2015. Vacant year-round units comprised 9.7% of total housing units, while 3.2% were for seasonal use.
Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was just one of five European leaders who opposed a long extension to Brexit, according to a report on the French influential newspaper Le Monde.
Muscat was on the same side as French President Emmanuel Macron, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. The five pushed for an extension that did not go beyond 21 June, Le Monde reports, quoting a source.
Seventeen other EU Member States, led by Germany, argued for a long extension, until December 31, like Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the Commission, and Donald Tusk, that of the Council.
In the end, a compromise seems to have been found, with the EU establishing 31 October as the new deadline, after the first one to be established, 29 March, came and went without the UK Parliament being able to agree on Britain's way out.
The so-called "flextension" until Oct. 31 given to Britain to approve a Brexit withdrawal agreement will require the country to hold elections for the European Parliament on May 23 - provided the withdrawal agreement hasn't been passed by lawmakers by that date.
A new multimillion pound hotel in Norwich is expected to open late next year, its developers say.
The £10m Hampton by Hilton Norwich Airport hotel was granted planning permission by Norwich City Council at the end of 2017.
It will be built on Spitfire Road, on land next to the International Aviation Academy, which opened last year.
It will be just a stone’s throw from Norwich airport’s main terminal, and will have 126 bedrooms, Hilton said.
Xenia Leisure, the developers behind the scheme, said more information would be revealed in the coming weeks, but said they hoped that the hotel would be up and running by autumn or winter next year.
A spokesperson said: “We are really looking forward to working as part of an ongoing partnership with both the aviation academy and the airport.
“It is likely to be one of the biggest investments in Norwich next year, and will create 40 jobs directly and many more indirectly.
The hotel will become the only Hilton in Norwich, since one by the airport became a Holiday Inn.
When it was announced, the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) said the hotel would sit alongside other work to regenerate the industrial estate, which they said had “huge potential to support jobs in a key part of Norwich”.
And the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce said the investment by both the aviation academy and Hampton by Hilton showed “Norwich needs to be taken seriously”.
It is one of several hotels would could be built in Norwich over the coming years.
Permission for a boutique hotel and spa has been granted for the site of the old bus station ticket office in Surrey Street, and Dennis Bacon, who is behind it, remains hopeful it will open next year.
In November last year, budget hotel operator Travelodge wrote to Norwich City Council to put forward an “innovative partnership to support local regeneration” through new hotels.
And Norwich City Council has said it would be open to seeing a five-star hotel built on car park space at the back of its offices.
In November, they said they were promoting the site as future office space, but would consider a hotel development.
A teacher in Manchester, New Hampshire, is accused of assaulting a middle school student.
Anita Lemay, a 52-year-old teacher at Southside Middle School, turned herself in Wednesday and was arrested on a charge of simple assault.
Police say the 14-year-old student was allegedly causing a disturbance in class while eating candy on Jan. 29. When he refused to listen, police say Lemay knocked the candy out of his hand, leaving a scratch on his wrist.
According to Manchester Police, a para-professional witnessed the alleged attack and pulled the student out of class immediately.
Lemay has been on paid administrative leave since Feb. 1, the school district confirms.
A court date has not yet been set for Lemay. It was not immediately known whether she had an attorney.
German police have urged anybody who had a conflict with a recently deceased man to be wary after a doctor was killed and a mother and daughter were injured by bombs - believed to have been planted by him prior to his death.
Police in Westpfalz reported that they have received more than 60 calls to a hotline since it was established on Monday.
The callers were primarily people worried about contact they had had with gardener Bernhard Graumann, who was found dead in his bed in the southwestern town of Mehlingen on Friday.
Graumann is believed to have planted a bomb outside the medical practice of a 64-year-old doctor in the nearby town of Enkenbach-Alsenborn that exploded Friday morning, killing the physician.
A 37-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter were injured by glass splinters Sunday when the woman put a log that had been rigged with explosives into her stove and it blew the door out.
Their injuries were not thought to be life threatening, but the child remained in the hospital for treatment Wednesday.
Graumann, 59, had been in conflict with both the doctor and with the family, and is thought to have planted the explosives before he died.
Police released his full name, which is unusual in Germany due to privacy laws, to alert anyone who might have had problems with him to be extra cautious.
Another rigged fireplace log was found later Wednesday in a woodpile at the home of a woman in a different town who had clashed with Graumann, police said. Bomb disposal experts destroyed the device in place rather than try to remove it.
Westpfalz police spokesman Bernhard Christian Erfort wouldn't comment on media reports that Graumann is believed to have killed himself, saying autopsy results were not expected until next week. He did say there was no sign of foul play.
During a search of Graumann's home, investigators found black powder and other items that were "in violation of weapons and explosives laws," police said.
"It cannot be ruled out that the deceased made other preparations that could endanger further people," police said.
Police investigated a suspicious object at the home of a person who had been in an argument with Graumann, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Area residents were also briefly panicked by a loud bang on Tuesday, but it turned out to be a sonic boom from a jet flying overhead.
People who knew Graumann said he was involved in reenactments of scenes from the Middle Ages and had apparently used pyrotechnics as part of the performance.
"He always went to medieval festivals, had a knight's armor," acquaintance Siegfried Zech told RTL television. "He's also said to have had an explosives license and have handled a lot with explosives and weapons, but supposedly he purchased all of that legally."
Two shipbreaking workers were killed at two scrap yards in Sitakunda in the early hours of yesterday and Sunday afternoon.
Md Borhan, 48, was killed at Premium Trade Corporation Shipbreaking Yard at Baro Awlia of Chittagong's Sitakunda around 2:00am yesterday after being hit by an iron plate while Abul Hossain, 30, a worker of RA Shipbreaking Yard in the same area, was killed Sunday afternoon inhaling poisonous gas, sources claimed.
However, the yards claimed that Borhan was killed as a truck of the yard hit him while Abul died after “cardiac arrest”, said Officer-in-Charge Iftekher Hasan of Sitakunda Police Station.
“We are looking into the incidents,” he said.
Yard owners often give misleading information about the deaths of workers to hide accidents in their yards, said Mohammad Ali Shahin, Bangladesh Coordinator of Brussels-based NGO-Shipbreaking Platform, an international organisation working for safety at shipbreaking yards.
The two incidents further proved that workers' safety gears were not maintained in the shipbreaking yards, he said.
Md Shahabuddin, a director of Premium Trade Corporation Shipbreaking Yard, said he did not know about the incident and that he was in Dhaka.
When asked, RA Shipbreaking Yard owner Sirajuddowla maintained that the worker died of cardiac arrest. He claimed that it was a lie that the worker died inhaling poisonous gas inside a ship.
Palash Kumar Das, inspector, department of inspection for factories and establishment, said he visited the two yards yesterday.
At least 16 workers were killed and more than a hundred others were injured in accidents in different shipbreaking yards in Sitakunda last year, according to NRO-Shipbreaking Platform.
At least 165 workers were killed in accidents in such yards between 2005 and 2016.
Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya (June 28) -- The anti-smoking ordinance here has reduced the presence of smokers in public places and conveyances since its effectivity in June 21.
The anti-smoking ordinance dubbed Ordinance No. 2010-049 or An Ordinance Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places Including Public Conveyances, Imposing Penalties for Violations Thereof and Providing Funds Therefore started with an intensified tri-media information campaign.
Smoking in public places within the provincial capitol in this town have been reduced, others are in the process of quitting the habit.
"We are really bent to implement this ordinance because there are many sectors who are very supportive on this," he said.
The anti-smoking ordinance, otherwise known as the Smoke-Free Ordinance of Nueva Vizcaya also imposes penalties among violators such as P1,500.00 for the first offense, P2,500.00 for the second offense and P5,000.00 for the third and subsequent offenses.
The anti-smoking ordinance also pushes for the creation of anti-smoking ask force and the formulation of a Smoking Cessation Program to help and assist smokers in quitting the habit and inspection of public conveyances to ensure their compliance on the ordinance.
The anti-smoking ordinance of the province was penned with the assistance of health officials under Republic Act 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999.
The ordinance is one of the major outputs from the various advocacy activities conducted by local health officials in support of the Republic Act 9211or the national Anti-Smoking Law.
The Anti-Smoking Law advocacy program was funded by the Bloomberg Foundation with P1.8 million, according to Viriginia Galapon, provincial coordinator of the anti-smoking program.
She said the ordinance's implementing rules and regulations are now nearing completion while the executive order is now being crafted for approval.
Ideal Tavern's Dazed and Confused combines Avuá Cachaça, flash-frozen Thai basil, chili simple syrup, lime and pumpkin seed oil for a cocktail as fun to watch as it is to drink. Read more here.
A new addition to Southington's restaurant scene hopes to make its mark with elevated twists on comfort food and cocktails with literal sizzle and pop.
Ideal Tavern, which opened on Center Street in July, brings a unique dining experience to the area, combining gastropub-style fare with lively, energetic mixology that plays with liquid nitrogen, custom-made ice cubes and surprising flavor combinations.
Executive chef Joe Lucci's menu features familiar plates like big burgers, macaroni and cheese, roasted chicken, flatbreads and risotto but with unexpected presentations, additions and techniques.
"It's contemporary; it's modern sophisticated American cuisine, basically," he said. "We're just trying to take ingredients and different products and textures that the average person is not going to think works together."
Each dish has a personal touch, courtesy of Lucci's culinary skill. The Ideal Burger, a custom blend of short rib, chuck, sirloin and brisket, is built on brioche with truffle aioli, manchego cheese and sunny-side-up egg. Butternut squash bisque is finished with spiced creme and amaretti cookie crumbs. The macaroni and cheese, with mascarpone cream, was presented with lobster and corn foam enhancements over the summer.

In 2008, of the 663,900 male pupils who joined Class One, about 70 per cent sat for their KCSE in 2015, compared to 71 per cent of the 652,200 girls who joined Class One in the same period.

There was however, a slight variation in 2017 with the completion rate of boys and girls on equal footing at 68 per cent.

This was, however, a drop in both gender compared to 2016 where 71 per cent of boys and 73 per cent of girls who joined Class One in 2009 sat for KCPE in 2016.

Some of the counties where the number of girls exceeded boys by the biggest margin include Kakamega and Meru, where out of every two girls there was one boy sitting exams. Other counties are Embu, Vihiga and Bungoma.

“Majority of the male pupils in these counties abandon school to venture into economic activities, including mining, fishing and cross-border trade,” said Peter Kubebea, chairman of the National Taxpayers Association which recently conducted an audit on gender enrolment in primary schools.

However, all the northern counties of Garissa, Turkana, Mandera and Wajir are an exception. In the five years under review — 2006-2010 — the number of boys who completed primary education by sitting for KCPE outnumbered their female counterparts.

In a few other counties such as Baringo, Samburu, Marsabit and West Pokot, the number of male candidates is higher than that of girls.

The better completion rates for boys in these regions may be a pointer to culture and hardships.

More than the completion rate, the performance of girls in the national examinations has been improving.

This is evident from the fact that out of the 35 top ranked candidates in the 2017 KCPE, 22 were girls while only 13 boys made it to the list.

After dropping to the lowest level in 48 years in the last quarter, the homeownership rate in the United States increased during the third quarter, according to data from the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau.

The latest quarterly report on residential vacancies and homeownership showed that the national rate of homeownership rose to 63.7% in the third quarter, climbing from 63.4% in the second quarter, which was a 48-year low.

The increase during the third quarter was the first time the homeownership rate increased in two years.

Despite the increase, the third quarter’s homeownership rate was still below the same time period last year, when the homeownership rate was 64.4%.

The overall increase came mostly from the Northeast region, where the homeownership rate rose from 60.2% in the second quarter to 60.8% in the third quarter.

The South also rose from 64.9% in the second quarter to 65.4% in the third quarter.

The West region also posted a small increase, rising from 58.5% to 58.7%, while the Midwest posted decreases in the third quarter.

According to the Census report, the homeownership rate in the Midwest fell in the third quarter from 68.4% to 68.1%.

The homeownership rate in the Northeast was lower than the rate one year ago, while the rates in the Midwest, South and West were not statistically different from the rates in the third quarter 2014, the Census Bureau said in its report.

Click the image below for the trend of homeownership on a national basis since 1995.

Additionally, the Census Bureau report showed that the homeownership rate for householders 35 and younger rose in the third quarter, from 34.8% in the second quarter to 35.8% in the third quarter.

For householders from 35-44 years of age, the homeownership rate rose slightly, from 58% to 58.1%.

For householders from 45-54 years of age, the homeownership rate held steady at 69.9%.

For householders from 55-64 years of age, the homeownership rate fell slightly, from 75.4% to 75.3%.

For householders 65 years and older, the homeownership rate also rose slightly, from 78.5% to 78.7%.

The rates for householders 35 to 44, 55 to 64 and 65 years and over were lower than the third quarter 2014 rates, while the rates for householders under 35 and 45 to 54 were not statistically different from the rates a year ago, the report showed.

Additionally, The homeowner vacancy rate was highest outside metropolitan statistical areas (2.5%).

The rates inside principal cities (1.9%) and the suburbs (1.7%) were not statistically different from each other, the report showed.

The homeowner vacancy rate outside MSAs was higher than a year ago, while the rates inside principal cities and in the suburbs were not statistically different from the rates last year.

The homeowner vacancy rate in the South (2.1 percent) was higher than the rates in the Midwest (1.7%) and West (1.5%), but not statistically different from the rate in the Northeast (2%). The homeowner vacancy rate in the Northeast was higher than a year ago, while the rates in the Midwest, South and West were not statistically different from the rates last year.

Approximately 87.1% of the housing units in the United States in the third quarter 2015 were occupied and 12.9% were vacant.

Owner-occupied housing units made up 55.5% of total housing units, while renter-occupied units made up 31.6% of the inventory in the third quarter 2015. Vacant year-round units comprised 9.7% of total housing units, while 3.2% were for seasonal use.

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was just one of five European leaders who opposed a long extension to Brexit, according to a report on the French influential newspaper Le Monde.

Muscat was on the same side as French President Emmanuel Macron, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. The five pushed for an extension that did not go beyond 21 June, Le Monde reports, quoting a source.

Seventeen other EU Member States, led by Germany, argued for a long extension, until December 31, like Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the Commission, and Donald Tusk, that of the Council.

In the end, a compromise seems to have been found, with the EU establishing 31 October as the new deadline, after the first one to be established, 29 March, came and went without the UK Parliament being able to agree on Britain's way out.

The so-called "flextension" until Oct. 31 given to Britain to approve a Brexit withdrawal agreement will require the country to hold elections for the European Parliament on May 23 - provided the withdrawal agreement hasn't been passed by lawmakers by that date.

A new multimillion pound hotel in Norwich is expected to open late next year, its developers say.

The £10m Hampton by Hilton Norwich Airport hotel was granted planning permission by Norwich City Council at the end of 2017.

It will be built on Spitfire Road, on land next to the International Aviation Academy, which opened last year.

It will be just a stone’s throw from Norwich airport’s main terminal, and will have 126 bedrooms, Hilton said.

Xenia Leisure, the developers behind the scheme, said more information would be revealed in the coming weeks, but said they hoped that the hotel would be up and running by autumn or winter next year.

A spokesperson said: “We are really looking forward to working as part of an ongoing partnership with both the aviation academy and the airport.

“It is likely to be one of the biggest investments in Norwich next year, and will create 40 jobs directly and many more indirectly.

The hotel will become the only Hilton in Norwich, since one by the airport became a Holiday Inn.

When it was announced, the New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) said the hotel would sit alongside other work to regenerate the industrial estate, which they said had “huge potential to support jobs in a key part of Norwich”.

And the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce said the investment by both the aviation academy and Hampton by Hilton showed “Norwich needs to be taken seriously”.

It is one of several hotels would could be built in Norwich over the coming years.

Permission for a boutique hotel and spa has been granted for the site of the old bus station ticket office in Surrey Street, and Dennis Bacon, who is behind it, remains hopeful it will open next year.

In November last year, budget hotel operator Travelodge wrote to Norwich City Council to put forward an “innovative partnership to support local regeneration” through new hotels.

And Norwich City Council has said it would be open to seeing a five-star hotel built on car park space at the back of its offices.

In November, they said they were promoting the site as future office space, but would consider a hotel development.

A teacher in Manchester, New Hampshire, is accused of assaulting a middle school student.

Anita Lemay, a 52-year-old teacher at Southside Middle School, turned herself in Wednesday and was arrested on a charge of simple assault.

Police say the 14-year-old student was allegedly causing a disturbance in class while eating candy on Jan. 29. When he refused to listen, police say Lemay knocked the candy out of his hand, leaving a scratch on his wrist.

According to Manchester Police, a para-professional witnessed the alleged attack and pulled the student out of class immediately.

Lemay has been on paid administrative leave since Feb. 1, the school district confirms.

A court date has not yet been set for Lemay. It was not immediately known whether she had an attorney.

German police have urged anybody who had a conflict with a recently deceased man to be wary after a doctor was killed and a mother and daughter were injured by bombs - believed to have been planted by him prior to his death.

Police in Westpfalz reported that they have received more than 60 calls to a hotline since it was established on Monday.

The callers were primarily people worried about contact they had had with gardener Bernhard Graumann, who was found dead in his bed in the southwestern town of Mehlingen on Friday.

Graumann is believed to have planted a bomb outside the medical practice of a 64-year-old doctor in the nearby town of Enkenbach-Alsenborn that exploded Friday morning, killing the physician.

A 37-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter were injured by glass splinters Sunday when the woman put a log that had been rigged with explosives into her stove and it blew the door out.

Their injuries were not thought to be life threatening, but the child remained in the hospital for treatment Wednesday.

Graumann, 59, had been in conflict with both the doctor and with the family, and is thought to have planted the explosives before he died.

Police released his full name, which is unusual in Germany due to privacy laws, to alert anyone who might have had problems with him to be extra cautious.

Another rigged fireplace log was found later Wednesday in a woodpile at the home of a woman in a different town who had clashed with Graumann, police said. Bomb disposal experts destroyed the device in place rather than try to remove it.

Westpfalz police spokesman Bernhard Christian Erfort wouldn't comment on media reports that Graumann is believed to have killed himself, saying autopsy results were not expected until next week. He did say there was no sign of foul play.

During a search of Graumann's home, investigators found black powder and other items that were "in violation of weapons and explosives laws," police said.

"It cannot be ruled out that the deceased made other preparations that could endanger further people," police said.

Police investigated a suspicious object at the home of a person who had been in an argument with Graumann, but it turned out to be a false alarm. Area residents were also briefly panicked by a loud bang on Tuesday, but it turned out to be a sonic boom from a jet flying overhead.

People who knew Graumann said he was involved in reenactments of scenes from the Middle Ages and had apparently used pyrotechnics as part of the performance.

"He always went to medieval festivals, had a knight's armor," acquaintance Siegfried Zech told RTL television. "He's also said to have had an explosives license and have handled a lot with explosives and weapons, but supposedly he purchased all of that legally."

Two shipbreaking workers were killed at two scrap yards in Sitakunda in the early hours of yesterday and Sunday afternoon.

Md Borhan, 48, was killed at Premium Trade Corporation Shipbreaking Yard at Baro Awlia of Chittagong's Sitakunda around 2:00am yesterday after being hit by an iron plate while Abul Hossain, 30, a worker of RA Shipbreaking Yard in the same area, was killed Sunday afternoon inhaling poisonous gas, sources claimed.

However, the yards claimed that Borhan was killed as a truck of the yard hit him while Abul died after “cardiac arrest”, said Officer-in-Charge Iftekher Hasan of Sitakunda Police Station.

“We are looking into the incidents,” he said.

Yard owners often give misleading information about the deaths of workers to hide accidents in their yards, said Mohammad Ali Shahin, Bangladesh Coordinator of Brussels-based NGO-Shipbreaking Platform, an international organisation working for safety at shipbreaking yards.

The two incidents further proved that workers' safety gears were not maintained in the shipbreaking yards, he said.

Md Shahabuddin, a director of Premium Trade Corporation Shipbreaking Yard, said he did not know about the incident and that he was in Dhaka.

When asked, RA Shipbreaking Yard owner Sirajuddowla maintained that the worker died of cardiac arrest. He claimed that it was a lie that the worker died inhaling poisonous gas inside a ship.

Palash Kumar Das, inspector, department of inspection for factories and establishment, said he visited the two yards yesterday.

At least 16 workers were killed and more than a hundred others were injured in accidents in different shipbreaking yards in Sitakunda last year, according to NRO-Shipbreaking Platform.

At least 165 workers were killed in accidents in such yards between 2005 and 2016.

Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya (June 28) -- The anti-smoking ordinance here has reduced the presence of smokers in public places and conveyances since its effectivity in June 21.

The anti-smoking ordinance dubbed Ordinance No. 2010-049 or An Ordinance Prohibiting Smoking in Public Places Including Public Conveyances, Imposing Penalties for Violations Thereof and Providing Funds Therefore started with an intensified tri-media information campaign.

Smoking in public places within the provincial capitol in this town have been reduced, others are in the process of quitting the habit.

"We are really bent to implement this ordinance because there are many sectors who are very supportive on this," he said.

The anti-smoking ordinance, otherwise known as the Smoke-Free Ordinance of Nueva Vizcaya also imposes penalties among violators such as P1,500.00 for the first offense, P2,500.00 for the second offense and P5,000.00 for the third and subsequent offenses.

The anti-smoking ordinance also pushes for the creation of anti-smoking ask force and the formulation of a Smoking Cessation Program to help and assist smokers in quitting the habit and inspection of public conveyances to ensure their compliance on the ordinance.

The anti-smoking ordinance of the province was penned with the assistance of health officials under Republic Act 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999.

The ordinance is one of the major outputs from the various advocacy activities conducted by local health officials in support of the Republic Act 9211or the national Anti-Smoking Law.

The Anti-Smoking Law advocacy program was funded by the Bloomberg Foundation with P1.8 million, according to Viriginia Galapon, provincial coordinator of the anti-smoking program.

She said the ordinance's implementing rules and regulations are now nearing completion while the executive order is now being crafted for approval.

Ideal Tavern's Dazed and Confused combines Avuá Cachaça, flash-frozen Thai basil, chili simple syrup, lime and pumpkin seed oil for a cocktail as fun to watch as it is to drink. Read more here.

A new addition to Southington's restaurant scene hopes to make its mark with elevated twists on comfort food and cocktails with literal sizzle and pop.

Ideal Tavern, which opened on Center Street in July, brings a unique dining experience to the area, combining gastropub-style fare with lively, energetic mixology that plays with liquid nitrogen, custom-made ice cubes and surprising flavor combinations.

Executive chef Joe Lucci's menu features familiar plates like big burgers, macaroni and cheese, roasted chicken, flatbreads and risotto but with unexpected presentations, additions and techniques.

"It's contemporary; it's modern sophisticated American cuisine, basically," he said. "We're just trying to take ingredients and different products and textures that the average person is not going to think works together."

Each dish has a personal touch, courtesy of Lucci's culinary skill. The Ideal Burger, a custom blend of short rib, chuck, sirloin and brisket, is built on brioche with truffle aioli, manchego cheese and sunny-side-up egg. Butternut squash bisque is finished with spiced creme and amaretti cookie crumbs. The macaroni and cheese, with mascarpone cream, was presented with lobster and corn foam enhancements over the summer.