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Guyanese-born Winston Kassim invested with Order of Ontario
…receives Guyana’s High Commissioner to Canada award for excellence
The Order of Ontario was bestowed on Winston Kassim on June 16, 2025 for his four plus decades of world-wide humanitarian and volunteerism work in more than 25 countries
Kaieteur News – Guyanese-born businessman and philanthropist, Winston Kassim who was recognized with the Province of Ontario’s highest civilian award in January 2025, is formally invested with Order of Ontario.
The order was bestowed on him on June 16, 2025 for his four plus decades of world-wide humanitarian and volunteerism work in more than 25 countries.
He was the first-born Guyanese to be awarded a Member of the Order of Canada (C.M.), the nation’s highest civilian honour for Canadian citizens in 2009 and was accorded with the Guyana High Commissioner’s award for excellence on June 1st in Ottawa. He is also a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and many other awards for Volunteerism.
Mr. Kassim began his business career with Barclays Bank in Guyana and the Caribbean before immigrating to Canada in 1975. He then joined Royal Bank of Canada where he enjoyed a distinguished 40 year career, eventually retiring as the executive Head of Financial Performance Management and Business Strategy.
Guyanese-born businessman and philanthropist, Winston Kassim
The awardee is a certified board director and has served on a variety of boards including Royal Bank Barbados Limited. He also supported a number of not-for-profit Boards including the Institute for Canadian Citizenship, Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, Canadian Museum of Indian Civilization, Sunatul Jamaat of Ontario Canada and private companies.
In Guyana, he, his late mother Noorun Nisa Kassim, late brother Dr. Sultan Farook Kassm, retired Deputy Commissioner of Police, Sultan Feroze Kassim, sisters Bibi, Dolly, Anne and Ingrid have been supporting the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana for over 40 years. Mr. Kassim also played a key role in establishing the Canada Guyana Chamber of Commerce and the Doobay Gafoor Medical Centre. In Canada, “
Mr. Kassim along with his wife, Kameni and children, Nadina, Shaun and Sara have been significant supporters of the One Guyana Forum (Canada) initiatives” according to Mr. Jerry Karamat, one of OGF’s primary convenors.
Mr. Kassim has advised global organizations on business opportunities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, India, South America, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration (MBA), an Advanced Graduate Diploma in Management (AGDM) and is a Certified Corporate Director, Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD.D. University of Toronto).
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Of course he would have the Order of Canada he got on his knees to the Liberal Party he sat in high ranking to one of the top banks in the world ate steak and lobster every night wise other Canadians and Guyanese immigrant did family suffered in Canada yeah this means nothing it’s nothing to brag about Guyana should be well aware and be aware of individuals like this that attach themselves back in Guyana as individuals like him bent over people he’ll do the same to Guyanese