Longtime friend and blog reader Pat had a good catch (so to speak) with respect to yesterday’s post on the Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament in Cuba. The post noted that participation in the tournament by U.S. persons might be…
ABOVE: Messrs. Wilkins and Whitlock in Cuba [See update to this post here.] Every year Cuba has an internationally famous sport fishing tournament. Fisherman from the United States have always cast envious eyes at the tournament just a short hop…
My apologies for yet another post arising out of Receivers of Sabena v. Deutsche Bank, but there is one more important point to be made if you’ll bear with me. (For background, here are links to the first post and…
In my post two days ago on the sad tale of Sabena Airlines and the blocked wire transfer, I focused on the rights (or lack thereof) of a beneficiary of wire that was blocked in mid-transit to recover those funds once unblocked…
Remember Sabena, the ill-fated Belgian airline that declared bankruptcy in 2001? Well, to quote Ford Madox Ford, this is the saddest story I have ever heard. One of the things that Sabena did, other than fly people back and forth…