Port Kaituma is a small village within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana. It became known internationally as a gateway village to the Peoples Temple settlement in nearby Jonestown. It has long been a hub for mining in the area.
^"$50M miners' block for Port Kaituma to include first bank". 3 March 2012.
^"2012 Population by Village". Statistics Guyana. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
PortKaituma is a small village within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana. It became known internationally as a gateway village to the Peoples...
Jonestown Georgetown PortKaituma The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name "Jonestown", was a remote settlement in Guyana...
PortKaituma Airport (IATA: PKM, ICAO: SYPK) is an airport serving the village of PortKaituma, in the Barima-Waini Region of Guyana. PortKaituma Airport...
PortKaituma Community School (PKCS) is a learning centre in PortKaituma within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana. Incorporating the Nursery...
Georgetown on November 15. Two days later, they traveled by airplane to PortKaituma, then were transported to Jonestown. Jones hosted a reception for the...
Ministries Television (MTM TV) channel 68 ZQI-TV; Channel 8, Port Antonio CVM TV; Channel 13, Port Antonio ZQI-TV; Channel 7, Coopers Hill, Jamaica CVM TV;...
representatives of the delegation boarded a small plane for the flight to PortKaituma Airport, a few miles outside of Jonestown. At first, only the Temple...
Congressman Leo Ryan and members of his visiting delegation at the nearby PortKaituma airstrip. The incident at Jonestown resulted in the greatest single loss...
in the 1970s, were a form of "destabilization". Jonestown Georgetown PortKaituma Burnham's control over Guyana began to weaken when the Jonestown massacre...
several defectors. Jim Jones sent Temple gunmen to ambush them at the PortKaituma airstrip, killing Ryan and four others. Later that day, Jones called...
swamps. The Kaituma and Barima Rivers were dredged to make enough room for ships to collect ore from the mines in the vicinity of PortKaituma. It was a...
refugees have settled in Guyana in Warao communities near Mabaruma and PortKaituma. Whitewater near Maburuma has limited infrastructure, however it does...
several defectors. Jim Jones sent Temple gunmen to ambush them at the PortKaituma airstrip, killing Ryan and four others and wounding Anthony. Later that...
uprising Leo Ryan Democratic 1978 (details) US Representative California PortKaituma, Guyana (on airport tarmac) gunshots Unknown members of the People's...
including the Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers. There are ports at Georgetown, PortKaituma, and New Amsterdam. There are two international airports (Cheddi...
in Jonestown followed the murder of five others by Temple members at PortKaituma, including United States Congressman Leo Ryan, an act that Jones ordered...
John Mackenzie High School Marian Academy North West Secondary School PortKaituma Community School President's College Queen's College, Georgetown Santa...
system and included several at bauxite mining sites and another linking PortKaituma and Matthew's Ridge in the Northwest District. In 1897, a 29.8-kilometre...
cyanide-laced Flavor Aid. In all, at Jonestown, at a nearby airstrip in PortKaituma, and in Georgetown, 918 people died, including over 270 children, resulting...
was declared a port-of-entry in the mid-1950s, and developed to facilitate the export of manganese from Matthew's Ridge and PortKaituma to Trinidad and...
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