Caribbean & Central America - October 2012 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Michael Strong, of the US-based MGK Group, is suddenly front page news in Honduras and for all the wrong reasons after the oversight and transparency commission for the model cities scheme, headed by the Stanford University economist and model cities advocate, Paul Romer, resigned, claiming it had been kept out of the talks between the government led by President Porfirio Lobo and MGK group and had not been privy to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) inked between the two on 3 September. Strong has come out in defence of his project, giving interviews to explain his vision for the first model city, which he models on Dubai and proposes would be located near the country’s main business hub, San Pedro Sula (as opposed to previously proposed more remote sites).

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