Wyclef Jean’s ex-manager Lisa Ellis fires back over leaked nude photo: ‘I’m being attacked’

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Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus (l.) and Lisa Ellis (r.), both rumored to be romantically linked to rapper Wyclef Jean, are speaking out against recent reports.

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Jean’s wife Marie Claudinette (l.) reportedly flipped out when she found nude photos of his ex-manager Ellis on his cell phone.

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Two women rumored to be linked romantically with Wyclef Jean are fighting back.

The hip-hop star’s former manager, Lisa Ellis, has told the FBI and the Department of Justice that she believes someone atSony Music illegally disseminated a nude photo of her.

We told you last month that the photo in question caused Wyclef  some trouble at home when his wife, Marie Claudinette, found it on his cell phone. According to sources, Claudinette flew into a jealous rage and demanded that her husband fire Ellis.

Ellis insisted her relationship with the former Fugees singer has always been strictly professional. She also maintained that she resigned – because, according to a friend, Wyclef “wasn’t listening to her advice.”

Ellis looks great in the black-and-white portrait, taken by photographer Mark Baptiste for an art book he’s planning, but she’s furious that someone e-mailed it around the music industry.

“It’s a cybercrime,” she tells us. “It’s a felony. It’s a stolen copyrighted [image].”

Ellis suspects that the shot was leaked by a person or persons at Sony Music, where she used to be an executive vice president.

“I don’t have the photo myself,” she says. “Mark did not send the photo out. I am being attacked for no reason.”

A Sony Music rep declined to comment.

Ellis is also shooting down a rumor that, back when they were talking, Wyclef gave her a horse.

“I got my horses on my own,” says the life-long equestrian. “This fantasy drama is [bleeping] b—s—.”

Meanwhile, Zakiya Khatou-Chevassus, the vice president of Clef’s Yele Haiti Foundation, is knocking down allegations that the charity paid her a disproportionate salary because she was his “mistress.”

A tax declaration obtained by TheSmokingGun.com reported that Khatou-Chevassus received $105,000 in 2008. Gawker.com quoted a source who said Khatou-Chevassus’ pay was three times more than that of program director Suzie Sylvain, who was “actually keeping the organization running.”

According to Gawker, five sources claimed Clef was “involved romantically” with Khatou-Chevassus.

Brushing off the report, the Grammy winner tweeted: “Donkeys spread rumors about me I dont Respond cause I’m the master that leads them to the Well to drink the Water.”

A Yele Haiti spokesperson declined to discuss whether or not Wyclef and Zakiya indeed had a thing, but insisted that her salary was justified, especially since Sylvain reported to her.

“We need to stop talking about Zakiya other than to praise her managerial skills,” said the rep for the charity, which reports raising $9,139,324 for relief activities since Haiti‘s January earthquake. “She is immensely proud of her professional collaboration with Wyclef Jean, and with members of his family, including his wife, Claudinette. Let’s get back to work.”

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Former President Bill Clinton asked aid groups working in Haiti on Thursday to focus on making the nation more self-sufficient, the Associated Press reports. Clinton, the U.N. special envoy to Haiti, spoke ahead of a U.N. donor conference on rebuilding Haiti next week.

“Every time we spend a dollar in Haiti from now on we have to ask ourselves, ‘Does this have a long-term return? Are we helping them become more self-sufficient? … Are we serious about working ourselves out of a job?’” Clinton said. According to the news service, “Clinton asked the groups to allocate 10 percent of their spending in Haiti for government salaries and employee training, to help the nation’s agencies rebuild their decimated staffs.” He recommended aid groups hire locally and coordinate with local authorities and the government, according to the AP.

“The former president also urged the groups to participate in an online registry and make their expenditures transparent. And he warned that unless they take action to move refugees to higher ground, as many as 40,000 people could be killed if there are heavy rains,” the AP writes (Gross, 3/26).

Meanwhile, Rene Preval, the Haitian President, is expected to “join U.S. and United Nations leaders next week in seeking $3.9 billion to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure,” Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports. “The U.N., World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank will present a 250-page reconstruction plan at a donors’ conference in New York on March 31, according to Jordan Ryan, director of the U.N. Development Program’s crisis prevention and recovery unit.

Ryan said as many as 60 nations may pledge new funds,” the news service writes. Preval is also expected to submit, on behalf of the government, a 50-page “Vision and Plan” for redevelopment, according to Ryan, who was one of the leaders involved with a recent rebuilding assessment report. He noted that the $3.9 billion will cover about two years of reconstruction. The total price tag has been estimated at $11.5 billion.

“U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.N. Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will join Preval in opening the daylong conference at the U.N. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, the U.N.’s special envoy for Haiti, also will speak at the conference, which foreign ministers of France and Japan are expected to attend, Ryan said” (Varner, 3/26).

Kristalina Georgieva, the EU’s aid commissioner, said Thursday that the EU is likely to pledge a three-year 1.3 billion euro ($1.73 billion) aid package at the U.N. conference next week, Reuters reports. “We will be there for a long time. We’re not looking at this as a short-term recovery project,” said Georgieva. “The EU, one of Haiti’s largest donors, committed over 300 million euros ($400 million) in initial aid,” according to the news service (3/25).

Media Outlets Report On Health Stories From Haiti

The Boston Globe examines the situation facing “Wings of Hope, a home for youngsters with disabilities high in the hills above Port-au-Prince.” According to the newspaper, “Though the Wings building did not fall, an architect deemed it structurally unsound. … Wings of Hope managed to rent two adjoining houses not far from the old building. But the conditions are difficult. … The dorm rooms are crowded, the tiny bathrooms cramped and dirty. On a chilly morning, most of the children’s feet were bare, and the cold tile floors were slick with muddy footprints.” The home didn’t have running water and had “only intermittent electricity” before the earthquake hit, according to the Boston Globe. “Mostly run by graduates of the St. Joseph’s program for street boys and former child slaves, it had only a few staff members with degrees of any kind, including one full-time nurse” (Wangsness, 3/26).

The Times of London looks at how Haiti’s impending rainy season could pose significant threats to homeless earthquake survivors: ” The rains, when they come, do not fall gently: they are tropical deluges that grow increasingly violent over two or three months. At least 1.3 million people — more than a tenth of the country’s population — are still homeless. They are living in more than 460 makeshift camps, many built on patches of wasteland that were vacant for the good reason that they were prone to mudslides or flash floods, or were dry riverbeds. At least 200,000 Haitians are reckoned to be vulnerable; as many as 37,000 especially so, while many more are at risk of epidemics caused by insanitary conditions. More than 300,000 of the homeless are children.” The article also discusses how aid groups and the U.S. government are dealing with the situation (Fletcher, 3/26).

There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin.

There is also good evidence that these very same big US oil companies and their inter-related monopolies of engineering and defense contractors made plans, decades ago, to use Haiti’s deep water ports either for oil refineries or to develop oil tank farm sites or depotswhere crude oil could be stored and later transferred to small tankers to serve U.S. and Caribbean ports. This is detailed in a paper about the Dunn Plantation at Fort Liberte in Haiti.

Ezili’s HLLN underlines these two papers on Haiti’s oil resources and the works of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin in order to provide a view one will not find in the mainstream media nor anywhere else as to the economic and strategic reasons the US has constructed its fifth largest embassy in the world – fifth only besides the US embassy in China, Iraq, Afghanistan and Germany – in tiny Haiti, post the 2004 Haiti Bush regime change.

The facts outlined in the Dunn Plantation and Georges Michel papers, considered together, reasonably unveil part of the hidden reasons UN Special Envoy to Haiti, Bill Clinton, is giving the UN occupation a facelift so that its troops stay in Haiti for the duration.

Ezili’s HLLN has consistently maintained, since the beginning of the 2004 Bush regime change in Haiti, that the 2004 US invasion of Haiti used UN troops as its military proxy to avoid the charge of imperialism and racism. We have also consistently maintained that the UN/US invasion and occupation of Haiti is not about protecting Haitian rights, security, stability or long-term domestic development but about returning the Washington gangsters – the traditional Haitian Oligarchs – to power, establishing free trade not fair trade, the Chicago-boys’ death plan, neoliberal policies, keeping the minimum wage at slave wage levels, plundering Haiti’s natural resources and riches, not to mention using the location benefit that Haiti lies between Cuba and Venezuela, two countries the US has unsuccessfuly orchestrated regime changes in and continues to pursue. In the Dunn Plantation and Georges Michel papers, we find and deploy further details as to why the US is in Haiti with this attempted Bill Clinton facelift to the UN’s continued occupations.

For, no matter the disguise or media spins it’s also about Haiti’s oil reserves, and about securing Haiti’s deep-water ports as transshipment location for oil or for tank sites to store crude oil without interference from a democratic government beholden to its informed population’s welfare. (See Reynold’s deep water port in Miragoane/NIPDEVCO property – scroll to photos in middle of the page.)

In Haiti, between 1994 to 2004 when the people had a voice in government, there was an intense grassroots movement to figure out how to exploit Haiti’s resources. There was a plan, where in the book Investing In People: Lavalas White Book under the direction of Jean-Betrand Aristide (Investir Dans L’Humain), the Haitian majority “were not only told where the resources were, but that — they did not have the skills and technology to actually extract the gold, to extract the oil.”

The Aristide/Lavalas plan, as I’ve articulated in the ‘Haiti’s Riches’ interview, was “to engage in some sort of private/public partnership, where both the Haitian people’s interest would be taken care of and of course the private interests would take their profits. But I think it was around that time we had St. Genevieve saying they did not like the Haitian government. Obviously, they didn’t like this plan. They don’t like the Haitian people to know where their resources are. But in this book, it was the first time in Haitian history, it was written in Kreyòl and in French. And there was a national discussion all over the radio in Haiti with respect to all these various resources of Haiti, where they were located, and how the Haitian government was intending on trying to build sustainable development through those resources. So that’s what you had before the 2004 Bush regime change/Coup D’etat in Haiti. With the Coup D’etat now, though the people know where these resources are because this book exists, they don’t know who these foreign companies are. What their profit margins are. What the environmental protection rules and regulations to protect them are. Many folks, for instance, in the North talk about losing their property, having people come in with guns and taking over their property. So that’s where we are.” (‘Haiti’s Riches: Interview with Ezili Dantò on Mining in Haiti‘.)

The mainstream media, owned by the multinational companies fleecing Haiti, certainly won’t lay out for public consumption that the UN/US invasion and occupation of Haiti is to secure Haiti’s oil, strategic position, cheap labor, deep water ports, mineral resources (iridium, gold, copper, uranium, diamond, gas reserves), lands, waterfronts, offshore resources for privatization or the exclusive use of the world’s wealthy oligarchs and US big oil monopolies. (See map showing some of Haiti’s mining and mineral wealth, including five oil sites in Haiti; ‘Oil in Haiti‘ byDr. Georges Michel; Excerpt from the Dunn Plantation paper; Haiti is full of oil, say Ginette and Daniel Mathurin; ‘There is a multinational conspiracy to illegally take the mineral resources of the Haitian people‘: Espaillat Nanita revealed that in Haiti there are huge resources of gold and other minerals, and ‘Is UN proxy occupation of Haiti masking US securing oil/gas reserves from Haiti?‘).

In fact, the current Haitian authority-under-the-US/UN-occupation that is in charge of regulating exploration licenses and mining in Haiti does not explain, in any relevant or systematic manner, to the Haitian majority about the companies buying up, post-2004, Haiti’s deep water ports, what their profit shares with the Haitian nation are, where are the accounting of said shares owed to the people of Haiti, nor explain the environmental effects of the massive excavations of Haiti’s mountains and waters going on right now. Instead, the Director of Mining in Haiti blithely maintains that “further research will be necessary to confirm the existence of oil in Haiti.”

In an excerpt taken from the article posted Oct 9, 2000 by Bob Perdue entitled “Lonnie Dunn, third owner of the Dauphin plantation,” we learn that:

“On November 8, 1973, Martha C. Carbone, American Embassy, Port-au-Prince, sent a letter to the Office of Fuels and Energy, Department of State, in which she stated that the Government of Haiti “…had before it proposals from eight different groups to establish a trans-shipment port for petroleum in one or more of the Haitian deep water ports. Some of the projects include construction of a refinery….” She further commented that the Embassy was acquainted with three firms: Ingram Corporation of New Orleans, Southern California Gas Company and Williams Chemical Corporation of Florida. (According to John Moseley, the New Orleans company was probably “Ingraham”, not Ingram.)

In the November 6, 1972 issue of Oil and Gas Journal, Leo B. Aalund commented in his article ‘Vast Flight of Refining Capacity from U.S. Looms’, “Finally, ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier’s Haiti is participating with a group that wants to build a transshipment terminal off Fort Liberte, Haiti”. One of the proposals referred to by Carbone was undoubtedly submitted by Dunn interests.

Additionally, we learn from this article that “Lonnie Dunn who owned the Dauphin plantation “planned to straighten and widen the entrance to the [Fort Liberte] bay so that super tankers could be brought in and the cargo distributed to smaller tankers for transfer to U.S. and Caribbean ports that could not accommodate large ships…”

We’ve put on the Ezili’s HLLN website the other relevant portions of this paper that talks about the corporate eye the US has had, for decades, on Fort Liberte in Haiti as an ideal deep water port for the multinationals to establish an oil refinery.

In the 50s and 60s there was little need for Haiti’s ports or oil as the Middle Eastern monopoly was gushing dollars galore. No need for these oil monopolies to undercut themselves by putting more oil on the market to cut their profits. Manipulated scarcity, thy name is profit! or, did I mean capitalism?

But the oil embargo of the 70s, the advent of OPEC, the rise of the Venezuelan factor, the Gulf Crisis followed by the Iraq war for oil, all has made Haiti a better bet for the three-piece suits and their military mercernaries called “Western governments”, yep, a way easier place to pillage and plunder behind the “bringing democracy” or “humanitarian aid” public covers.

Serendipitously with Haiti’s 2004 Bush-the-son Regime Change, a follow-up to the 1991 Bush-the-father’s military coup, we find, flurries of Congressional “discussions” about off-shore drillings in preparation, perhaps, to the eventual “revelation” as written in the Dunn paper years ago, that “there is a need for supertankers that require deep-water ports which are not readily available along the U.S. East Coast – nor …welcome…for environmental and other considerations will (not) permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale that will be required.”

We underline that Haiti is an ideal dumping ground for the US/Canada/France and now Brazil, because environmental, human rights and health issues and other considerations in the US and in these other countries, would probably not permit the construction of domestic refinery capacity on the scale that new explorations of oil in this hemisphere will required. So, why not pick the most militarily defenseless country in the Western Hemisphere and dot it with such unsafe initiatives behind a UN multi-national “humanitarian” mask and fatherly Bill Clinton’s snowy white hair and smiling face?

It is relevant to note here that most of Haiti’s major deep water ports have been privatized since the Bush 2004 regime change in Haiti. It is also relevant to note here what I wrote last year in the piece titled ‘Is the UN military proxy occupation of Haiti masking US securing oil/gas reserves from Haiti‘: “If there’s substantial oil and gas reserves in Haiti, the US/Euro genocide and crimes against the Haitian population has not yet begun. Ayisyen leve zye nou anwo, kenbe red. Nou fèk komanse goumen.” (See also, John Maxwell’s ‘Is there oil in Haiti‘ and Haiti Forum 2009.)

The revelations of Dr. Georges Michel and the Dunn Plantation papers seem to positively answer the question that there is substantail oil reserves in Haiti. And our Ezili Dantò Witness Project information is that it’s indeed being tapped and contracted out, but not for the benefit of Haitians or Haiti’s authentic development. That’s why there was a need to marginalize the Haitian masses through the ouster of Haiti’s democratically elected Aristide government and put in the UN guns and UN occupation that today masks the US/Euros’ (with a piece to the new power that is Brazil) securing Haiti’s oil and gas reserves and other mineral riches such as gold, iridium, copper, diamond and underwater treasures. (See ‘Majescor and SACG Discover a New Copper-Gold in Haiti‘, Oct. 6, 2009; ‘Haiti’s Riches‘ and ‘There is a multinational conspiracy to illegally take the mineral resources of the Haitian people‘: Espaillat Nanita revealed that in Haiti there are huge resources of gold and other minerals.)

Today, the US and Euros say they are happy with Haiti’s “security gains” and “stable” government. To wit: the last elections the US/UN presided over in Haiti excluded Haiti’s majority party from participation. Haiti’s jails are filled, indefinitely detained without trial or hearings, since 2004, with thousands upon thousands of community organizers, poor civilians and political dissenters that the UN/US label “gangsters.”Site Soley has been “pacified.” There are more NGOs and charitable organizations – about 10,000 – in Haiti than any where in the world since 2004 and the Haitian people are a million times worst off than they were before this US/NGO civilization (otherwise also known as the “International Community”) and their thugs, thieves and corporate death squads came and disenfranchised nine million blacks. Food prices are so high, some resort to eating dirt in the form of cookies to assuage Clorox hunger.

Lovinsky Pierre Antoine, the head of Haiti’s largest human rights organization was disappeared in 2007 in UN-occupied Haiti with no investigation done. Between 2004 and 2006 under the Western occupation, first by the US Marines then the UN multinational troops headed by Brazil, from 14,000 to 20,000 Haitians, mostly who opposed the occupation and regime change, were slaughtered with total impunity. More Haitian children are out of school today in 2009 than before the US/NGO “civilization” came post 2004. Under the US-imposed Boca Raton regime, Haiti’s Supreme Court was fired and brand new and paid-for judges, without any Constitutional authority inherited from the people of Haiti’s mandate, took the place of the legitimate judges and law officers and are still metering out paid-for rulings in 2009 under the UN occupation and international community’s tutelage.

And, as a matter of power, privilege, inequity and the violence of neocolonialism, white-sex abusers and pedophiles are having a hay day and human trafficking of Haiti children are at an all-time high. It is no revelation that in the stakes of corruption in Haiti or in Africa that a great many of the foreign NGOs along with their bourgeois/elite/pastors/priests and others are destroying poor children’s life with absolute impunity while being painted as “saints” in their press back home the better to raise more funds to masturbate on Black pain some more.

Yet, Special UN Envoy, Bill Clinton, tells us “I am serving the next two years as a US Special Envoy to Haiti…This is the best chance in my lifetime that Haitians have ever had to escape the chains of their past…” The former President added, “If Haiti pulls out of this it will be in no small measure because of the efforts of non-governmental organizations.”

What that means is perhaps that this is the Haitian subcontractors, ruling oligarchs and US/Euro military-industrial complex’s best chance to finally impose their chains on Haiti for good. Tap Haiti’s oil, keep it so poor it will be grateful for slave wages at sweatshops. Let sexual tourism and the white sex-abusers do as they will. Transfer quickly more Haiti properties to foreigners and render the “good” Haitians as maids, butlers and servants in US/Euro-owned Haiti tourist resorts like the rest of the Caribbean. Militarize Haiti so that dissent is not possible even as a thought. That’s perhaps UN Envoy, Bill Clinton’s “best chance in my lifetime” scenario for Haiti. Nothing else makes sense.

(See ‘HLLN comment on new IMF figures indicating Haiti is no longer the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere‘ and ‘Does the Western economic calculation of wealth fit Haiti-fit Dessalines idea of wealth distribution? NO!‘ and ‘Comparing crime, poverty and violence in the rest of the Hemisphere to Haiti‘ and ‘Pointing Guns at Starving Haitians: Violent Haiti is a myth‘ and ‘The Western vs the Real Narrative on Haiti‘ and ‘No other national group anywhere in the world sends more money home than Haitians living abroad‘.)

Going shopping in Haiti

“It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom.”

- Emma Goldman

Though they exist and form the exception to the rule, there are very few Paul Farmers, Margaret Trosts or Bill Quigleys in the Haitian world. And even amongst “the exceptions,” the number whittles down to almost zero in terms of foreign heroes who can be expected to go the lifetime-distance without making “unusual alliances” or joining the status quo that vies for the soul of Black folks. Few who would HEAR Lila Watson, who said, “If you have come here to help me then you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let us work together.” This sort of thinking that inspires self-reliance not dependency and provide the respectful conditions for those in great need to, in liberty, dignity and identify, realize their own needs is not what compels the International Community in Haiti right now.

For, in the age of humanitarian imperialism, globalization, financial colonialism and neocolonial-violence obfuscated behind forced assimilation and cultural imperialism, what exactly do some whites or modern missionaries go shopping in Haiti for: sex, self-esteem, adulation, fun, challenge, adventure, a boost in serotonin-consumption, to exploit cheap labor, plunder Haiti’s natural resources, for self-improvement, recovery, to use Haiti as in excuse to raise funds for their salaries and living expenses to live the old Dixie’s planters’ life with exploitation black sex on tap, or as an easy way to gain international expert credentials in any field and move up the socio-economic ladder at home and/or for securing the good tropical lifestyle with mountain and oceanfront houses, the waiters, maids, gardeners and seafood they couldn’t obtain as easily in their Euro/US countries where they are the majority, ordinary, can’t use the white privilege inheritance without some scrutiny and are not as exotic and special as in neocolonial devastated Haiti. It’s all hidden, of course, behind the mask of being good humanitarians, altruistic charity workers and helping Haitians.

(See also ‘Ezili Dantò Reviews Travesty in Haiti: A true account of Christian missions, orphanages, fraud, food aid and drug trafficking ‘ (a book by Timothy T. Schwartz, Ph.D.); ‘Haiti’s Holocaust and Middle Passage Continues‘; ‘The Slavery in Haiti the Media Won’t Expose‘; ‘UN Peacekeepers and Humanitarian Aid Workers raping, molesting and abusing Haitian children‘; The-To-Tell-The-Truth-About-Haiti Forum 2009; ‘I am the History of Rape: HLLN Letter to UN asking for investigative reports on UN soldier’s rapes in Haiti‘; and ‘Proposed solutions to create a new paradigm‘.)

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Located in the North-Eastern part of Haiti and abounding with tourist sites, Fort-Liberté is a city where the first declaration of Haiti’s independence took place on November 29, 1803. It has one of the most captivating historical sites in the area called Fort Dauphin known today as Fort-Liberté. This fort was built around 1731 under the command of Louis XV, king of France, and its ruins are the greatest evidences of its genius designers who chose the most strategic point to built it in order to fight off upcoming invaders.

In addition to its architectural charm, it overlooks a splendid bay of turquoise seawater, which sparkles under the bright rays of the tropical sun.

Montreal, Quebec – Majescor Resources Inc. (“Majescor” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:MJX) is pleased to report that it has signed an agreement (the “Agreement”) with SIMACT Alliance Copper Gold Inc. (“SIMACT”) and its principal shareholders (the “Principals”) whereby the Company will acquire a 10% interest in SIMACT, as well an option to acquire the remaining 90% interest. SIMACT, through its 66.4%-owned Haitian affiliate mining company, Societe Miniere du Nord-Est S.A. (“SOMINE”), controls a property with both gold and copper potential, (the “SOMINE Property”) located in the North-East mineral district of Haiti. The SOMINE Property lies within a highly prospective volcanic arc environment, host to numerous epithermal gold and porphyry copper occurrences in Haiti, as well as the World-Class Pueblo Viejo gold deposit in the adjacent Dominican Republic. The property holds the historical Blondin and Douvray copper-gold prospects; the historical Faille-B gold prospect; along with a number of recently-discovered copper-gold showings.

Marc-Andre Bernier, President and CEO of the Company states: “Majescor has an established, ten-year long tradition of exploring emerging mineral districts. The deal with SIMACT and its Principals offers a new and unique opportunity for the Company to participate in the evaluation and development of a key property located in the prospective Massif-du-Nord volcanic complex of north-east Haiti. We believe that the time is right to invest in Haiti and in projects with gold and copper potential. Gold has remained a steady commodity in this economic downturn while copper has just hit a 6-month high. Not only does the SOMINE Property contain three historical copper and gold occurrences, the mineral rights of which are secured under a mining convention with the State, but it is surrounded by ground recently acquired by Eurasian Minerals Inc. and partner Newmont Ventures Ltd. Majescor intends to fast-track the development of the SOMINE Property through further quantification of the three known prospects and the drill testing of new geological targets and ground showings.”

SIMACT and SOMINE

SIMACT is a Montreal-based private company headed by a group of Canadian financiers and Haitian-American developers. The alliance aims to promote sustainable mineral development initiatives in Haiti by creating synergies between the Canadian financial and mining communities and the North American Haitian Diaspora.

SIMACT holds title to 66.4 % of all the issued and outstanding shares of SOMINE, a company incorporated under the laws of the Republic of Haiti. SOMINE in turn, has 100% title to the SOMINE Property. SOMINE’s mineral rights and obligations have been assigned under a mining convention executed with the State of Haiti on May, 5, 2005 (the “Mining Convention”), which covers a 50 km2 Research Permit and is valid until March 9, 2010, and under a Prospecting Permit awarded in 2006. The Prospecting Permit, which encompasses four areas lying to the East, South and Southeast of the permit subject to the Mining Convention, expired in December 2008. SOMINE has requested the conversion of the Prospecting Permit into a Research Permit and has filed all technical and source documents in support of its application with the Haitian Bureau of Mines and Energy. The Research Permit is pending.

The Principals of SIMACT own approximately 80% of SIMACT’s issued and outstanding common shares.

Terms of the Agreement

The terms of the Agreement with SIMACT and the Principals can be summarized as follows:

(i) Majescor will acquire from the shareholders of SIMACT 10% of all the issued and outstanding common shares of SIMACT, the whole in consideration of the issuance to all SIMACT shareholders, on a proportionate basis, of 2,000,000 treasury common shares of Majescor, This initial acquisition by Majescor is subject to, among other things: (1) a satisfactory technical and legal due diligence on SIMACT, SOMINE and the SOMINE Property, (2) all SIMACT shareholders accepting to be bound by the terms of the Agreement and (3), all legal and regulatory approvals.

(ii) Concurrently with the initial acquisition by Majescor, SIMACT and the Principals have agreed to grant Majescor an option (“the Option”), the whole in consideration of an option payment of $200,000 to SIMACT (of which a non-refundable payment of $25,000 has been paid by Majescor on the date of execution of the Agreement) and the carrying out by Majescor of $600,000 in exploration work and other related expenses on the SOMINE Property within 8 months following the execution of this Agreement, to purchase all the remaining SIMACT shares and other securities of SIMACT, if any, held by the current SIMACT shareholders, in consideration for the issuance of 10,000,000 treasury common shares of Majescor to be issued to all current SIMACT shareholders on a proportionate basis. This Option, which is also subject to complete and satisfactory due diligence, may be exercised by Majescor within 12 months from the date hereof. The Company is not obliged to exercise the Option, nor will it have any right to exercise the Option prior to incurring the required work expenses referred to above.

SIMACT is the operator of the SOMINE Property. The 2009 exploration program for the property, which has been approved by Majescor, calls for core drilling of one or more of the historical prospects, as well as of a number of the recently outlined geological targets and surface gold and copper showings. Majescor may pay to SIMACT any balance of the $600,000 in work expenditures not yet incurred in lieu of incurring such work expenditures. As the Option may constitute a Reverse Take Over within the meaning of the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange (the “Exchange”), the Company will need to obtain all required regulatory and shareholder approvals before exercising the Option.

(iii) Furthermore, in the event that within a period of two years following the exercise of the Option, a NI 43-101 technical report (the “Report”) prepared by an independent and accredited reputable engineering or geological consulting firm determines indicated mineral resources on the SOMINE Property to be between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 ounces of gold, or its equivalent in copper, Majescor shall, within 30 days of the report, issue an additional 3,000,000 common treasury shares to current SIMACT shareholders. In the event that the indicated mineral resources on the SOMINE Property are determined by the Report to be equal to or greater than 2,000,000 ounces of gold or its equivalent in copper, Majescor shall, within 30 days of the Report and in addition to the 3,000,000 common shares mentioned hereinabove, issue another 3,000,000 common treasury shares to current SIMACT shareholders. These additional issuances of common shares will also be subject to all required corporate and regulatory approvals.

The Agreement with SIMACT has been approved by all the directors of Majescor, with the exception of Andre Audet, Chairman of Majescor, who declared his interest as a shareholder and director of SIMACT and as such did not participate in the vote.

Regional Geology and Historical Prospects

The SOMINE Property area corresponds to a volcanic arc of Meso-Cenozoic Age that can be traced from Central Cuba through the Dominican Republic and forms part of the NW-trending Mountains of the Massif-du-Nord group. This group is composed mainly of volcanic tuffs and lavas from the volcanic belt, ranging in composition from felsic, through intermediate, to mafic and ultramafic rocks. The belt is composed of numerous lenticular bodies of lava and pyroclastic material of felsic composition, varying from dacite to rhyolite, embedded in a thick series of predominantly mafic volcanoclastic rocks, mainly andesite with lesser amounts of basalts, with numerous intercalations of diverse sedimentary rocks, like radiolarian cherts, carbonate rocks, and tuffs.

Copper and gold are the two main ore types in the area. Copper is usually found associated with the porphyritic facies, the microtonalitic apophyses, and the silicified zones, filling fissures and fractures, as well as disseminated. Within the quartz vein systems, the copper is contained in the chalcopyrite, while the gold appears both as native gold and as a very fine disseminated gold in the sulphide zone. It can also form spectacular concentrations on the oxidised cap. The native gold is usually found associated with chlorite, as well as in grains of pyrite and chalcopyrite. A second generation of gold is usually found associated to the quartz and the chlorite. The gold content is extremely variable.

The SOMINE Property holds the historical Blondin and Douvray copper-gold prospects; the historical Faille-B gold prospect, as well as a number of recently-outlined geochemical and geophysical targets and surface gold-base metal showings that have not yet been drill tested. The Blondin, Douvray and Faille-B prospects have been known since the 1970′s and 1980′s when they were investigated in some detail by foreign bilateral and multilateral agencies, in particular the United Nations Development Program (“UNDP”), the German Bundesanstalt fur Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (“BGR”) and the French Bureau de Recherches Geologiques et Miniere (“BRGM”). A series of geochemical and geophysical surveys were carried out on the SOMINE Property. Drilling, trenching, mapping and soil sampling were also performed, as well as metallurgical studies. More recently (1995-2006), the three prospects were investigated by a consortium of Canadian junior mining companies.

The Douvray, Blondin and Faille-B prospects were reviewed by R. Valls of Valls Geoconsultant in 2004 as part of a NI 43-101 qualifying report written by on behalf of Ste-Genevieve Resources Ltd. (acquired by Ascendant Copper Corp., now Copper Mesa Mining Corp.). This report, entitled “Technical Report of the Geology and Mineral Resources of the Douvray – Blondin – Faille B Copper and Gold Prospects in Haiti” is available at www.SEDAR.com.

At Douvray, the German BGR completed a total of 38 diamond drill holes in 1980. An additional 22 holes were drilled at Douvray in the late 1990s. For Blondin, the bulk of the exploration work appears to have been carried out in the 1970′s by the UNDP (8 drill holes totalling 1,500 m). Results from a number of grab samples collected by R. Valls returned values ranging from 1.19 to 8.14% Cu for Douvray and from 1.55 to 10.42% Cu for Blondin.

The Faille-B gold prospect was investigated under the UNDP’s Revolving Fund for Natural Resources Exploration (1982-1987) with 31 holes drilled over a strike-length of 1.8 km. In the course of a trenching campaign carried out in 2007 by SIMACT on the East and West extensions of the Faille-B prospect, significant values were encountered locally, one vein averaging 42.7 g/t Au over 6 m, including values of 107.5 g/t Au over one meter, 61.4 g/t Au over one meter and 41.2 g/t Au over one meter (see Diagnos Inc press release, October 30, 2007). The Faille-B prospect coincides with a major NW-trending structural lineament which extends through to the Blondin copper prospect.

Field work carried-out by SIMACT elsewhere on the SOMINE property in 2007 focussed on new geological base metals targets. Five grab samples on one of the targets returned copper values of 7.46, 6.21, 9.51, 0.10 and 6.69% Cu respectively. The target represents an outcrop which is highly mineralised over some 20 meters in length and one meter thickness (see Diagnos Inc. press release dated February 29, 2008).

Majescor is a junior explorer focusing on emerging mineral districts. Majescor’s project portfolio includes two uranium exploration projects in Quebec and one in the Baker Lake basin in Nunavut. The Quebec properties include Mistassini (100%-owned; under option to Strateco Resources Inc.) and Lac Laparre (100%-owned; under option to Santoy Resources Inc.). In Nunavut, the Company holds 100% mineral rights to the Baker Lake uranium property. In addition to uranium, Majescor owns 100% mineral rights to four gold and base metal properties in Madagascar (under option to Sunridge Gold Corp.), as well as 100% mineral rights to the Mirabelli gold and base metal property in Quebec.

Since time immemorial, it has been no secret that deep in the earthy bowels of the two states that share the island of Haiti and the surrounding waters that there are significant, still untapped deposits of oil. One knows not why they are still untapped.

Since the early twentieth century, the physical and political map of the island of Haiti, erected in 1908 by Messrs. Alexander Poujol and Henry Thomasset, reported a major oil reservoir in Haiti near the source of the Rio Todo El Mondo, Tributary Right Artibonite River, better known today as the River Thomonde. (Perhaps the word Thomonde is derived from de Todo El Mondo?) The deposit of oil in question straddles the boundary between the boroughs of Hinche and Mirebalais in a mountainous area located at the foot of the chain of the Black Mountains, direction due west of Thomond.

The same map indicates an oil reservoir in the Dominican plain of Azua, a short distance north of the Dominican Republic in the town of Azua. According to our information, the latter oil field located in the Dominican Republic had actually been operating in the first half of this century, produced up to 60,000 barrels of oil per day and had closed because it was considered at the time “insufficiently profitable.” Also in the Dominican Republic, there was announced, in 1982, a discovery, in front of the plain of the Azua, of a huge oil field offshore at the coast of Barahona. But this deposit has been left untapped.

Those who have traveled from Port-au-Prince to Santo-Domingo can testify that the plain of the Azua and its coastline very much resembles the area of Vieux Bourg d’Aquin and its related coast. Therefore, reasonable chances are that there is hydrocarbon deposits in the counterpart Haitian region, especially as we are told that in the plains of Cayes there is geological evidence of the presence of oil, as well as at the Bay of Cayes, Les Cayes and between Ile a Vache.

In 1975 we bathed in the waters of Les Cayes and noticed that our feet was covered by a sort of black oil seeping from the seabed. A fisherman from the place explained that this was not uncommon in the area.

He reports similar phenomena in other regions of Haiti – it seems so in the plains of Leogane and at the foothills of Morne-à-Cabrit. It’s also been reported that there is the presence of oil shale in the province of Grand Anse.

There are still many places on our island (Haiti and Dominican Republic) that meet all the geological criteria for the presence of hydrocarbons. In Haiti, include the plains of Cayes, the plain of Leogane, the plain of Cul-de-Sac, the Gonaives plain and the deserted Savannah, the Plaine du Nord. Ile de la Gonave and corresponding coastlines to the off-shore deposits. In this list, do not forget the large sedimentary basin of the Central Plateau of Haiti.

In the course of the 1950s, the Knappen-Tippen-Abbet company (nicknamed by the local people “the company for small bread and butter”) conducted drillings in La Gonave, in the Cul-de-Sac plains, in the Plateau-Central and in the region of Gonaives. All of these drillings had proved extremely promising and the results were beyond expectations. However, the big multinational oil companies operating in Haiti pushed for the discovered deposits not to be exploited. Haiti was neither Saudi Arabia nor Kuwait. At a time when a barrel of crude oil sold for just over a dollar, and the Persian Gulf provided oil galore, there was no reason for these companies to put in production these oil fields deemed much less profitable. Especially while ARAMCO [then known as the Arabian American Oil Company] was, rain or shine in Arabia, at a low price, even to the point of looting the precious oil resources of this kingdom.

[The attitude of these big multinational oil companies was] “We shall keep the Haitian deposits and other such layers of deposits in reserve for the 21st century when the Middle Eastern jackpot are depleted.” This is what happened! The wells of Knappen-Tippen-Abbet were numbered, carefully locked or sealed with cement and forgotten.

The reports of the huge drillings were not, it seems, supposed to be made public to the Haitians. Do you think they would ever hand over to a bunch of backward negroes, information that would allow them to work towards their own economic liberation? This would make them too strong and give too much power to little Haiti.

Haitians had to wait half a century or a century for that. However, the successful countryside of the Knappen-Tibben-Abbet company, allowed for a great deal of opportunity to many Haitian schools, preparing primary school students for their certificate and studying in the geography textbook of Haiti from the Brothers of Christian Instruction, to learn that our land had oil reservoirs in the Central Plateau and La Gonave. This did not fall on deaf ears …

It is generally known, in all circles, that there are petroleum hydrocarbon deposits in the bowels of the island of Haiti. But the petroleum industry/circles are not eager to put into production these so readily available Haiti oil reserves. Other more important areas were already identified as major oil producing regions of the world. [The thinking was] there will always be time to think about the island of Haiti.

However, [these big oil entities and the powerful nations] did think of us during the Gulf crisis when Kuwaiti deposits, the Saudis and other oil reservoirs were threatened by Saddam Hussein. If the Cubans had not made a great effort by themselves to put their own oil in exploitation, nobody would have done it for them. If it were not for the efforts of the Cubans, Cuban oil would still be housed in the bowels of the earth, as it remains for Haitian oil. The ball is in our camp …

If the big oil companies are not interested in our oil, we should ask our Cuban neighbors to come help us exploit it. In their dramatic search for oil, the Cubans have developed technology and know-how that we could, in return for their services, yield to the Cubans part of our domestic oil production and give them a share of profits. A mission of government officials and businessmen in Haiti should leave for Cuba in this direction.

The sad case of the international embargo clearly shows that we must fend for ourselves, and especially that we do not have to wait for the OK from the United States when our vital interests are in peril. The whole of our society is aware and sees well how our big northern neighbor has treated us and shall treat us in the future. Haiti will be saved by Haitians and Haitians only, that is the principle lesson of the embargo.

If our oil was available, we would not have been shamefully forced to capitulate after the oil embargo decided in defiance of international law with their infamous Resolution 841, by the great powers now bearing the pompous and ridiculous name of “international community”.

Our government, our big businessmen, our ultra-liberal economists, our big smugglers, our Chicago-Servant-Boys, our anti-nationalists and others ruffians, prefer to import [everything, even] air, rather than to put to use the resources of Haiti. With a zeal that is hard to understand, they blindly obey the bidding orders of the IMF and World Bank, and are put together with these two organizations to destroy the Haitian economy, especially our valuable agriculture.

Nevertheless, they find themselves caught out with us. And when imperialism, to meet its gruesome intentions, decides to impose an embargo, the last embargo (there will be perhaps more in the future, who knows?) has proven the need to accelerate economic integration with the Dominican Republic.

Both Republics should undertake, by treaty, to provide each other with some oil no matter the decisions of a third party. A trans-island pipeline, Barahona to Port-au-Prince, could be part of this oil integration between the two countries that share the island.

While waiting to be able to consume our own oil, whose surpluses shall also provide the valuable currency we need, we should increase the country’s storage capacity for oil products and consider how to stockpile important strategic reserves on the territory of the Republic. The oil embargo of 1991 is also a strong argument for rebuilding our railways.

The International Monetary Policy and Trade Subcommittee approved the Debt Relief for Earthquake Recovery in Haiti Act, introduced by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), which also aims to encourage direct assistance in the form of grants from those institutions, rather than loans.

The bill would require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and other institutions to use the voice, vote, and influence of the U.S. to accomplish the debt forgiveness. Waters has been a longtime champion of debt-relief for Haiti.

“The moral case for canceling Haiti’s debt is clear,” said Barney Frank (D-Mass.), Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services, “and the Committee stands prepared to continue to work with the Administration to authorize a swift and substantial U.S. commitment to comprehensive multilateral debt cancellation for Haiti.”

Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, owes $828 million to multilateral development institutions, according to the Department of the Treasury, including $447 million to the IDB, $284 million to the IMF, $39 million to the World Bank and $58 million to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The idea that Haiti owes anybody for anything is a striking one considering the nation’s history.

“Haiti faces enormous challenges now, and the burden of paying off foreign debt would prevent the nation from taking necessary steps to help its people at this perilous time,” said Waters. “I introduced H.R. 4573 so that Haiti can use its limited resources to make both immediate and long-term investments in essential humanitarian relief, reconstruction and development efforts.”

The equipment is designed to provide fast wireless phone and Internet connectivity at 100 holding centres for internally displaced people.

The wireless network will help reinforce ongoing efforts to bridge the gap created by the collapse of terrestrial networks, which remain largely non-operational because of earthquake damage. SmartBridges Solutions will also assign specialist engineers who will work alongside ITU experts to help get the network up and running as quickly as possible.

“I am very grateful to smartBridges Solutions for joining ITU in extending a helping hand to Haiti following this devastating disaster,” said Sami Al Basheer Al Morshid, Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau. “I look forward to working with smartBridges Solutions, not only to help save human lives during emergencies, but to fully leverage the power of ICTs to drive the ongoing development of Haiti and other developing nations. I call upon like-minded potential partners to join us in this worthy cause.”

Speaking from Haiti, where ITU continues to oversee network restoration efforts, Cosmas Zavazava, ITU Chief, Emergency Telecommunications, praised smartBridges Solutions’ commitment in contributing state-of-the-art wireless technology, which he said is very much needed to support ongoing aid work.

ITU has already contributed 100 satellite terminals to Haiti to help rapidly re-establish basic communication links, as well as installing a Qualcomm Deployable Base Station complete cellular network to provide the reliable wireless communications essential to disaster relief and clean-up efforts.

Between 1957 and 1986, the Duvaliers ruled Haiti with US backing ending in the popular overthrow of Baby Doc, the son. By the time he fled the country, the foreign debt amounted to over $750m. Since then, the debt continued to rise through interest and penalties. Meanwhile the Duvalier family seems to have over $900m in western bank accounts, the subject of a trial currently before the Swiss courts.

But the sheer cost of servicing these debts is crippling. The World Bank estimated that Haiti paid $321m just to service the debt between 1995 and 2001. Recently, the Paris Club announced debt relief for Haiti amounting to $214m. But the debt reduction includes an element for the interest they would otherwise have paid. When it is expressed as Net Present Value, the real figure is $84.9m.

Despite the finance packages being announced for Haiti, they are not gifts, but investments. Haiti will be paying interest on loans it has no choice but to accept. The European Network on Debt and Development estimate that Haiti will pay $16.2m in debt servicing this year. In the next four years to 2013 it will come to $130.4m and over the next 19 years it will amount to $661.5m.

And currently, the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank own 80% of the debt between them in equal measure. And there are rich pickings in a disaster zone because there will be major reconstruction projects. Haiti is forced to accept the loans and then to pay US corporations to carry out the reconstruction.

But it was US business that had such a major negative impact on the Haitian economy. Agricultural product dumping, including rice, meant that the rural economy of Haiti collapsed, sending two million people into the Port-au-Prince slums in the last 20 years. US companies took advantage of the cheap labour to set up clothing sweatshops.

The neo-liberal plan of massive loans and open markets overseen by puppet governments following the coups of 1991 and 2004 has destroyed the infrastructure and the rural economy. If there was any compassion at all in politics, or any sense of responsibility amongst the politicians who pushed such globalisation madness on a desperately poor country, they would cancel all the debts now, without conditions, and would restore sovereignty to Haiti.

But the sad fact is that when a nearby economy is so desperate, there are huge profits to be made. The construction companies will have a field day. We won’t see the necessary infrastructure develop, just those parts needed for foreign companies to export the goods produced by the available pool of cheap labour. We won’t see roads and hospitals, but we’ll see privatisation of anything that has a hint of potential profitability.

Despite all the posturing about Haiti, the hand-wringing and the tearful comments to camera, the hard truth is that Haiti’s parlous state is largely the responsibility of the policies of globalisation and the competitive accumulation of large corporations. And the only proposal on the table to help Haiti is more of the same poison.

source: Author: Bob Lloyd

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