Clarence Dalyrimple Richardson visits Malaki Z. Croes in Aruba!

On Friday 11 April 2008 Clarence Richardson visited Malaki Z. Croes in Aruba during his stay in Aruba. Clarence was very excited to learn more on his ancestors and provided us with information of his branch and looking forward to the reunion.

Clarence presented the book " Federacion di trahadornan di Aruba ( F.T.A.) 1964-1979" which describes the union party F.T.A. in Aruba during a period of 15 years. Clarence now living in Sint Maarten N.A. was active in the union since the beginning in 1964 and was elected in 1965 Shop-steward, 1967 Chief Shop-steward and in 1969, 1970, 1971,1973,1975,1977 President F.T.A.


During his whole career in the union party Clarence Richardson attended many courses & seminars and represented the F.T.A. and FESINA at several international congress in Germany, The Netherlands,Belgium, Surinam, The Dominican Republic, Curacao N.A., Sint Maarten N.A., Bonaire N.A., Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela and Trinidad and also assisted in many governmental projects.


Currently Clarence Richardson is the Managing Director of Training & Development Institute/Labour & Management Consultants N.V. in Sint Maarten N.A.

Clarence Dalyrimple Richardson is son of Marius Richardson who was son of Clarence Hamilton Dalrymple van Romondt.

We wish Clarence many success with his business and welcome his branch to the VR-research.

Sources pictures: Malaki Z. Croes (AUA)

The business man/woman in the West Indian Branch

Source:http://www.caribbeanoverseas.com/

We hereby introduce you businessman Onno van Romondt owner of Caribbean Overseas located in Aruba.

Caribbean Overseas Ltd. has an established reputation as the largest foodservice supplier of quality foods to retail chains, hotels and restaurants throughout Aruba.

Caribbean Overseas' team of professionals will help you with merchandising, advertising and display techniques that support your sales and enhance your profit margin.

Caribbean Overseas – a company you can trust, services you can depend on, the best beef in town!

Our new home, a state-of the-art facility located in proximity of High- and Low rise hotel area, major city Oranjestad, Seaport and Airport. Easy access to our customers gives us the ability to expedite orders quickly and efficiently.

We are specialized in USDA Beef, Certified Angus Beef, Poultry and Seafood.

The van Romondt W.I.B. Research Project wishes Onno all the best with his business!

The business man/woman in the West Indian Branch

Source: Picture by Malaki Z. Croes (AUA)

We hereby introduce you businessman Brian van Romondt owner of VR-Realty Group located in Aruba. VR-Realty Group is one of Aruba's real-estate agencies.

We wish Brian van Romondt all the best with his business!

The business man/woman in the West Indian Branch

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We hereby would like to introduce to you mr. Egon van Romondt living in Canada and a descendant of the West Indian Branch.
Egon is one of the founders of TAURUS BUSINESS SYSTEMS INC in Canada.

General Information:
Taurus Business Systems Inc. (TBS) has created a unique market segment in the custom printing and fulfillment sector targeted to the logistics and courier sectors. Established in 1993 after an intensive one-year market research project focused on custom printing and fulfillment by its founders, Egon Van Romondt, Albert Catinari and Morgan Catinari, TBS has pioneered today's unique ordering processing with better controls, efficiencies and cost effectiveness. The company operates from its more than 32,000 square foot facility in Mississauga, Ontario - conveniently located 30 kilometers from downtown Toronto.

From 1992 to 1993, extensive industry research identified a wide-range of best-of-breed resources. Production facilities were also assessed to create a database of qualified vendor partners that would make Custom Printing and Fulfillment services possible within TBS' business model.

Since its first operating day in 1993, Taurus Business Systems Inc. has, and continues to play key roles for its blue-chip clients like United Parcel Service (UPS) Canada, and others remain competitive by having access to fresh ideas, new processes and up-to-the minute technology. TBS was selected by UPS based on our ability to offer scalable, technology-based solutions to deliver unparalleled efficiencies and cost-savings to UPS.

And to stay ahead of the curve for its clients, TBS continues to expand, create out of the box thinking and is always looking for new innovative logistical challenges to master. Our team of highly talented professionals continues to develop new project management processes and build on our vendor partner database. This is as a result of our commitment to research and development, an investment, which constitutes about 20 percent of our operating expenses.

But we don't just stop there and rest on our laurels. Part of our innovative processes in servicing clients includes trouble shooting and performance efficiency at every step of the way. To ensure that ongoing processes are meeting our client's needs from a project management prospective, our staff and vendor partners are constantly required to submit efficiency reports to isolate and correct possible problem areas of operation before they even occur, thereby generating more productivity.

Whether it's developing and printing industry leading thermal labels or printing on specially developed courier bags, TBS have developed new initiatives - a Canadian first!

We have taken the bold step of diversifying into logistics and fulfillment and now bring the full power of the Internet to bear on customized printing and fulfillment services. As a result we are an international leader in the management and distribution of print and digital information.

We encourage you to contact us to learn more about how we can streamline your custom printing and fulfillment needs!


The van Romondt W.I.B. Family Tree Research Project wishes Egon and his partners all the best with the business.

Please visit the following website to learn more:
http://www.taurus1.com

The business man/woman in the West Indian Branch

Source picture: Peter Oxley (BAH)

Dear all get to know Peter & Betty Oxley living in the Bahamas.

Peter also have the entrepreneurship in his spirit and is owner of the guest house " Coral Garden" in Exuma, Bahamas.
Please visit http://www.coralgardensbahamas.com/

August is one of the busiest months at the guest house and Peter & Betty can't make it to the reunion but say to us "we are already virtually full for the dates you are planning so we will be there in spirit but not in flesh!"

Peter is son of of Sylvia van Romondt, daughter of Alice van Romondt & Johan Gravenstein. Alice is daughter of Louis van Romondt & Ida van Romondt, former owner of the VR-house at the Vinegard, Philipsburg Sint Maarten. The VR-house is currently the residence of mrs. Bernadette Buncamper.

We wish Peter & Betty all the best with their business!

The business man/woman in the West Indian Branch

Source: Pic by Malaki Zuleika Croes (AUA)

I hereby would like to introduce to you mr. Norman Romondt living on the beautiful island of Curacao N.A. Norman recently send us an email regarding his new business with the focus on HEALTH. We wish Norman all the best with his business "qhealthzone/qbeautyzone.

Please visit the following website to learn more:

http://nromondt.qhealthzone.com/default.aspx

http://mromondt.qbeautyzone.com/default.aspx

Where did our spirit of entrepreneurship come from?

Dear all,

As you may already know the van Romondts were MINT MASTERS in Holland in the early days. According to several resources some of the van Romondts including Jan van Romondt were very active in the development of the Dutch coins (gulden) during that period in the city of Utrecht, Holland. Jan was mint master of Utrecht, Holland (1679-1709) (Dutch: een muntmeester, Frans: directeur de l`hôtel de la monnaie, Duits: Münzmeister. A mint master is the highest boss/director of a coinhouse and is responsible for the fullfillment of the policies.



Jan van Romond was son of Diederik van Romond (muntmeester) en Pietertje Petersdr Schuurmans. Johan van Romond comes from a big mint master family and is the 1st out of three generations who served as a mint master. After his death his wife and son continued. Between 2 centuries in the complete Republic several members of the van Romond family occupied ( 20 times) the function of MINT MASTER in different states in the Netherlands.
Source: (http://home.planet.nl/~luijt005/hz012757.htm) (http://www.duiten.nl) (http://www.duiten.nl/oveklop.htm)Munt Overijssel, Zwolle, Utrecht, Friesland).



Truly you can see up to this day that majority of the descendants have an eye for business in whatever field. Did they know were the spirit came from?



On this webblog we will introduce you to the many entrepreneurs among us! We wish them all the best with their businesses.



Source pictures: http://www.duiten.nl