Golf world-beater Tiger Woods’ handicap is getting clipped by the day, sending his stellar career into free-fall. Swiss watch maker Tag Heuer is dropping his image from its US advertising campaigns, following his admission of marital infidelity. Tag Heuer is the third sponsor to react to the news, after management consultancy firm Accenture and shaving products giant Gillette. Talk about a financial crunch in the Woods. Ouch!
True, even a workhorse needs to rest, water and perhaps solitude to strategise. We hoped that was all Raila Odinga wanted in a holiday. But a weary London-bound Raila says he will address Kenyans abroad on developments back home. The Prime Minister’s diary reminds Palaver of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s busy "working holidays" in Mombasa.
Pope Benedict XVI has issued a decree that puts two of his predecessors, Pius XII and John Paul II closer to Roman Catholic sainthood. And in other news, Australia is to have its first Roman Catholic saint after Pope Benedict approved a second miracle attributed to 19th Century nun, Mother Mary MacKillop. She could be formally declared a saint at a canonisation ceremony next year. My interest is the pontiff’s position on Maurice Cardinal Otunga (pictured). How far along is his case for sainthood?
Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission chair Bethwel Kiplagat must watch his words. He says his team was "ready to start" (work we presume). And as Mark Twain was wont to say, why is truth taking so long to take off? At least we now know that corruption is no longer faceless. It wears a suit and a tie and even uses lipstick! So, when will public hearings begin to unravel "the truth" since the Kiplagat team was appointed in July?
And finally...
In Palaver’s climate watch: "This accord is not legally binding, it’s a political statement," said Nnimmo Bassey, chair of Friends of the Earth International. "This is a disaster for the poor nations. the urgency of climate change was not really considered." However, Dame Barbara Stocking, Oxfam’s chief executive takes the cake with: "World leaders in Copenhagen seem to have forgotten that they were not negotiating numbers, they were negotiating lives." Well said Barbara.
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