SUBSCRIPTION SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013 JAMADA ALTHANI 24, 1434 AH No: 15798 Swimming pools in US military AFC to introduce Kuwait ready for plane crashes ethics summer season2 in Kyrgyzstan7 committee44 Arab states dismayed at West’s complacency Max 36º 150 Fils Nuclear Israel jeopardizes NPT: Kuwait Envoy Min 23º GENEVA: Arab states including Kuwait are dismayed at complacency by some Western powers toward Israel’s abstention from cooperating with the international community on banning nuclear arms, an official of the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. Ambassador Jassem Al-Mubaraki, the Director of International Organizations Department, said in a statement yesterday, Arab officials expressed criticism of these powers’ stance during meetings of the preparatory commission of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) signatory states. Arab Group, to prove good intentions in this respect, had formed a “troika, “ comprising Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco, that held talks with the United States on this issue, Al- Mubaraki said. MOUNTAIN VIEW: A member of the Solar Impulse crew rides an electric bike alongside the plane as it takes off from Moffett Field NASA The Americans, Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California yesterday.—AFP during these discus- Jassem Al-Mubaraki sions, asked the Arab officials to refrain from blaming Solar-powered plane takes off Washington for failure of holding a special conference on clearing the Middle East of SAN FRANCISCO: A solar-powered airplane that develop- nuclear weapons, scheduled in Helsinki in ers hope to eventually pilot around the world took off early end of last year, the ambassador said. He yesterday from San Francisco Bay on the first leg of an ‘Massacre’ feared as indicated they also criticized the Arabs for attempt to fly across the United States with no fuel but the shedding too much light on Israel’s nuclear sun’s energy. capacities, but failing to do so regarding The plane, dubbed the Solar Impulse, departed shortly war comes to Banias after 6 am local time from Moffett Field, a joint civil-military nuclear program of Iran. airport near the south end of San Francisco, heading first to US reporter ‘hostage’ in Damascus The Americans deduced, by examining Phoenix on a slow-speed flight expected to take 15 to 20 statements by Arab states’ representatives hours. The spindly looking plane barely hummed as it took DAMASCUS: Syrian troops yesterday bom- ry executions and shelling in Bayda village,” and delegates of Non-Aligned Movement flight in the still northern California morning as the sun was barded Sunni areas of the Mediterranean a southern suburb of the Alawite-majority countries at meetings of the commission, just beginning to peek out over the Santa Cruz Mountains city of Banias, a monitoring group said, city, Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian that “these countries generally tended to to the east. After additional stops in Dallas, St Louis and warning of a new “massacre,” as Observatory for Human Rights said. hold them, along with other Western pow- Washington, DC, with pauses at each destination to wait for Washington said for the first time it was Meanwhile, a US journalist missing in war- ers and Canada, responsible for failure of favorable weather, the flight team hopes to conclude the looking at arming rebels. The opposition torn Syria is believed to be held by govern- holding the Helsinki conference for sake of plane’s cross-country voyage in about two months at John National Coalition earlier denounced a ment intelligence agents at a detention appeasing Israel,” ambassador Al-Mubaraki F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. “large-scale massacre” by troops and militia- center near Damascus, a spokesman for his explained. “Such unwavering stances Swiss pilots and co-founders of the project, Bertrand men on Thursday in a Sunni village near family said yesterday. Banias, a new front in Syria’s war, citing wit- James Foley, a 39-year-old freelancer means there will be no progress in our Piccard and Andre Borschberg, will take turns flying the efforts to establish a world free of nuclear plane, built with a single-seat cockpit, with Piccard at the ness reports of civilians being stabbed to who has filed reports for GlobalPost, weapons and a Middle East clear of these controls for the first flight to Arizona. He is tentatively death. Agence France-Presse and other outlets, scheduled to land in Phoenix at 1 am local time today. “The Coalition calls on the Arab League has been missing in Syria for nearly six arms,” he added. The project began in 2003 with a 10-year budget of 90 and the United Nations to act rapidly to months. Foley’s family and employers insist Western powers have no intention, million euros ($112 million) and has involved engineers save the civilians of Bayda, Banias and other that he was working as an objective, profes- whatsoever, to exert pressure on Israel to from Swiss escalator maker Schindler and research aid from villages across Syria,” it said in a statement, sional reporter within Syria, and have called cooperate on the nuclear issue, he said. Belgian chemicals group Solvay - backers who want to test accusing the regime of “war crimes and for his release. Syrian officials have never “Moreover, they have no desire to compel new materials and technologies while also gaining brand genocide”. “Several sources in the village acknowledged having any news of his it with anything regarding respect for the recognition. — Reuters say at least 50 people were killed in summa- whereabouts. — Agencies Continued on Page 8 LOCAL SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013 Number of lifeguards depends on visitors Swimming pools in Kuwait ready for summer season By Nawara Fattahova ends, the pools are more occupied than during the weekdays, so the number of life- KUWAIT: For the children to feel safe while guards is higher,” he told the Kuwait Times. The lifeguards are well-trained and certified. “The swimming, it is necessary to have a life- The lifeguards are well-trained and certi- guard at the swimming pool. Some parents fied. “The guards are educated and they guards are educated and they speak English. They don’t feel safe to let their children swim speak English. They have to concentrate have to concentrate and deal with the children. and play in the swimming pool alone, so and deal with the children. Even if parents they stay with them all the time while in are with them, we are still responsible for Even if parents are with them, we are still responsi- the pool. However, if there were to be a life- them. Guiding the children is more impor- guard, they would feel more comfortable tant than rescuing. The guards give people ble for them. Guiding the children is more impor- to let their children swim alone. and especially the children directions on tant than rescuing. The guards give people and There is no special regulation indicating how to swim, which is more important than a specific number of lifeguards to be pres- saving. The guard doesn’t have to wait till especially the children directions on how to ent at the swimming pools. Each club or there is a drowning person or somebody swim, which is more important than saving. place is providing a certain number of calls for help to act. Prevention is always these guards, and the number differs from better,” added Badawi. one place to another. Certain hotels do not The lifeguards are always present at the Club. “Even if the swimming pool is closed, the club remains open. So there should be a guard to watch the swimming pool, as sometimes children may try to jump in the pool and their parents may not come to know. We have to guard the pools and tell them it is forbidden to swim in it in this period,” he stated. The availability of lifeguards is basic requirement for the swimming pools. “In all swimming pools of the company, we have lifeguards available all the time. We have a budget to employ more guards in case the need arises. At the Sha’ab Club, we didn’t have any accidents, yet we remain careful. Also, on days when the pool is used for women, we have women guards who remain present. At our club, there are two guards as the pool is not so crowded, while at the Messilah Beach, for instance, there are more than 10 guards,” he further said. The water condition of the swimming pools is also very important. Badawi explained, “We always take that we have clean water. Every month the inspectors from the Ministry of Health come to run a check, and sometimes they come randomly or once a week. They have special instru- ments to measure the state of the water, so sometimes we actually invite them to check out the quality.” The hotels are the other places that pro- vide swimming facilities. The Crowne Plaza Hotel has three lifeguards watching two have any lifeguards. The clubs and utilities swimming pools and they have never expe- of the Touristic Enterprises Company are rienced an accident at the pool. The Palms the most popular as far as swimming pools Beach Hotel and Spa also has two swim- are concerned. Captain Essam Badawi, a ming pools, one for the adults and one for swimming trainer and supervisor of the life- the children. They have three to four life- guards at the Sha’ab Sea Club, explained guards for both the swimming pools. The that lifeguards’ presence is important at all Hilton Kuwait Resort has five lifeguards for the swimming pools, especially those for two swimming pools, besides having children.