The following are editorial opinions from newspapers from around the world which may be of interest to Royal Gazette readers.

Columbus Georgia Ledger-Enquirer,– on Tiger Woods

Tiger Woods has spent the 14 years of his professional golfing career cashing in on his charismatic image at least as much as he has on his immense, perhaps unprecedented talent. Except for a few relatively minor cracks in his carefully maintained façade — an expletive here, a thrown club there — he has mostly succeeded in managing what the public was allowed to see of this appealing and gifted athlete.

That façade sustained major damage last week in a weird incident that was officially in the books as a traffic accident as of Tuesday, but which continues to raise questions as to what really happened, and why. ...

Woods reportedly has the right, under Florida law, to refuse any information to authorities beyond his driver's license and other official documentation — as long as the incident is being treated officially as a traffic accident. Thus have ESPN and other sports media outlets explained Woods' repeated cancellations of interviews with Florida state troopers. Whether somebody not named Tiger Woods and not living in an exclusive gated community would be granted that kind of kid-gloves treatment under similar circumstances is a matter about which it is hardly "irresponsible" (to use Woods' own term) to speculate. ...

Whatever his legal obligations, Woods has every right to clam up publicly. Perhaps he sincerely thinks he owes the public nothing more, and he might be right. But when he insists that people stop speculating about this strange sequence of events, maybe he needs to rethink what the rest of us owe him.

The Miami Herald, –on the Honduran elections impasse

The people of Honduras made it clear on Sunday that they fully supported the electoral process that produced a presidential victory for Porfirio Lobo, the candidate of the opposition National Party.

The turnout of more than 60 percent signals that most Hondurans were unwilling to heed the call of ousted president Manuel Zelaya, who had called for a boycott of the process to strengthen his claim that the elections were not legitimate because he was improperly removed from power back in June.

In fact, the elections easily passed the most important test of all in any democracy by attracting popular support. That, along with an absence of reported irregularities at the polls and a generally peaceful atmosphere around the country, helps to make the case that the results of the election should be respected by other countries, even though Mr. Zelaya himself remains holed up in the Brazilian Embassy in an increasingly futile effort to win back his old job. ...

That's not the end of it, though. It's up to the interim government and Mr. Lobo to help restore democracy by creating a unity government between now and the inauguration in January, with a place in it for Mr. Zelaya. Failing to do so will only give other countries in the region an excuse to keep Honduras in isolation. No one profits from that except Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and others like him who are the real enemies of democracy in the region. Meanwhile, the Obama administration needs to get its act together in Latin America. Its handling of the controversy left much to be desired. ...