Guyana sits in the middle of neighbouring countries with cities highly listed for violent crimes.

Georgetown : Guyana the only English speaking country in South America with 83,000 square miles and a population of about 773,303.

Guyana is bordered by Suriname, Brazil and Venezuela.

violent crime has been a setback for the country since independence in 1966 and today is considered one of the poorest countries in Latin America.

Guyana’s economy is dependent on agriculture, mining (gold and bauxite), eco-tourism and foreign aid.

Guyana sits in the center of countries highly listed in the 50 most violent cities in the world with a rate of 111.33 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, in 2017.

The Mexican Los Cabos was the most violent city in the world and entered the ranking for the first time.

Five of the 10 most violent cities, among the 50 that include the ranking, are Mexican: in addition to those already mentioned are La Paz, Tijuana and Victoria. In the Brazilian Fortaleza the homicide rate went from 44.98 in 2016 to 83.48 in 2017, an increase of 85.59% in just one year.But the shot of the homicidal violence in Fortaleza pales in comparison to the one in Los Cabos: it went from 61 homicides in 2016 to 365 in 2017, almost 500% more in a year. The growing difficulty to recognize the magnitude of the homicidal violence in Venezuela, in addition to the demographic phenomenon that that country is suffering From previous years, but especially in 2017, there is a new phenomenon that expresses the very serious crisis that in all the orders that Venezuela faces: the growing inability to count its dead. Before official data, the press information on the subject in 2017 was much scarcer than in previous years, less periodic and less specific as regards the incidence in the cities. That is why two Venezuelan cities came out of the ranking, without us being certain that they should not appear. On the other hand, Venezuela is facing an accelerated process of depopulation. Four million of its inhabitants have left the country, more than half of them in the last three years. As a result, official population estimates are not real, nor are homicide rates based on them, but higher. Other novelties presented by the 2017 ranking are:

Included in the 2016 ranking, six cities came out of the 2017: Cuiabá (Brazil), Curitiba (Brazil), São Luís (Brazil), Armenia (Colombia), Cumaná (Venezuela) and Gran Barcelona (Venezuela). Of these, the last two came out because there are no data to calculate the rates, not because there is certainty that the homicide rates have dropped enough to no longer appear in the ranking. The four remaining cities had rates lower than that of Cúcuta, Colombia (34.78 homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants), which ranked 50th. The cities of Los Cabos (Mexico) entered the ranking for the first time; La Paz (Mexico), for the first time; Tepic (Mexico), which re-enters; San Juan (Puerto Rico), which re-enters; Porto Alegre (Brazil), a re-entry and Campina Grande (Brazil), which is also a re-entry. Of the 50 cities in the ranking 17 are located in Brazil, 12 in Mexico, 5 in Venezuela, 4 in the United States, 3 in Colombia, 3 in South Africa, and 2 in Honduras. There is a city in El Salvador, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and Jamaica. The overwhelming majority of the 50 most violent cities in the world are located in Latin America (42 cities). In the 50 cities the average rate was 59.17 (41,430 intentional homicides among 70,016,008 inhabitants). But only the first 16 cities exceeded that average. Lic. José Antonio Ortega Sánchez President of the Citizen Council for the Public Safety and Criminal Justice, A.C.

Guyana is ranked number nine with homicide if 879 a rate of 80.28 Below is a List of the 50 most violent cities in the world in 2017 in order of city, Population, Homicide and rate.

1 Los Cabos Mexico 365 328.245 111.332

4 Caracas Venezuela 3,387 3,046,104 111.

3 Acapulco Mexico 910 853,646 106.63

4 Natal Brazil 1,378 1,343,573 102.56

5 Tijuana Mexico 1,897 1,882,492 100.77

6 La Paz Mexico 259 305,455 84.79

7 Fortaleza Brazil 3,270 3,917,279 83.48

8 Victoria Mexico 301 361,078 83.32

9 Guayana 728 906,879 80.28

10 Belém Brazil 1,743 2,441,761 71.38

11 Vitória da Conquista Brasil 245 348,718 70.26

12 Culiacan Mexico 671 957,613 70.10

13 St. Louis United States 205 311,404 65.83

14 Maceió Brasil 658 1,029,129 63.94

15 Cape Town South Africa 2,493 4,004,793 62.25

16 Kingston Jamaica 705 1,180,771 59.71

17 San Salvador El Salvador 1,057 1,789,588 59.06

18 Aracaju Brazil 560 951,073 58.88

19 Feira de Santana Brasil 369 627477 58.81

20 Juárez Mexico 814 1,448,859 56.16

21 Baltimore United States 341 614,664 55.48

22 Recife Brazil 2,180 3,965,699 54.96

23 Maturín Venezuela 327 600,722 54.43

24 Guatemala Guatemala 1,705 3,187,293 53.49

25 Salvador Brazil 2,071 4,015,205 51.58

26 San Pedro Sula Honduras 392 765,864 51.18

27 Valencia Venezuela 784 1,576,071 49.74

28 Cali Colombia 1,261 2,542,876 49.59

29 Chihuahua Mexico 460 929,884 49.48

30 João Pessoa Brazil 554 1,126,613 49.17

Meanwhile Guyana enjoys bilateral relations with number one ranked global fire power of the world, the United States of America, number three China, number four India and number six the United Kingdom. However Guyana’s neighbours are included in that list of 132 nations with Brazil at number 17, Venezuela at 45 and Suriname at 132.