We were in Miami this week, and when there, were sought out by Ralph Romsom who wanted to tell us that we will soon have a rich, stylish sister, Doral City, in Florida.
Apparently it is a city of 50.000 fun loving, enterprising Floridians, mostly of Latin origin, who are experiencing immense growth and development, aiming to become 100.000 fun loving, enterprising Floridians within one year.
The city will be doubling its capacity, by building condos and parks, and putting in a superb infrastructure, with Donald Trump as most valuable investor.
Ralph explains that it all has to do with the Panama Canal expansion project, as a result of which Doral City is aggressively perusing the hub status, for Panama bound goods.
(From Wikipedia: For a city of its size, Doral has a large number of shops, financial institutions and businesses, especially importers and exporters, primarily because of its proximity to the airport.)
Ralph Romsom, who resides in Doral City, with roots in Aruba and Curacao, had conceived a reciprocal relationship between the island and the “Best City in Florida for Business Start Up,” also fondly called Doralzuela, to be finalized in early May at an official signing ceremony. After that, our sister city status with Doral will be forever inked, and while we will continue shopping there, they will hopefully come here on vacation in growing numbers, after all we’re related.
Ralph also conceived a vision of building an Aruba pavilion in Doral City where the island will have its goods on display, hot sauces, Aruba Aloe products, arts and crafts, including live demonstrations of Aruban artists and most importantly, an endless supply of Balashi and Chills Beers.
The sister City concept or Twin City agreement in geographically and politically distinctly different areas was designed to promote cultural and commercial ties, and it finds its roots in a US policy after WWI, intending to foster friendship and understanding between different cultures and nations.
According to me Aruba could use all the business ties available to her, so Doral City is welcome to become our sister.
I think we already have strong ties with the area. I recall many of my local friend buying condos in the Doral Golf Resort and Country Club, and environs. We even had a former hotel general manager who transitioned from Aruba to that fancy address, and offered us friendly rates, but that was a century ago.
Back to Ralph, and RF Agency, he has an office at the Miami Free Zone, and his office grand opening reception should be around the Sister City signing ceremony, which was already posted on the Doral City web site: www.cityofdoral.com
Sorry I missed the good-looking Mayor Luigi Boria, while I visited their gorgeous City Hall, but I met Alex Tejerizo, an official with the city, and he was courteous and cute!
