Principal Magistrate's sharp rebuke of Azruddin Mohamed exposes deepening fault lines between judiciary, opposition, and the PPP administration

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA  |  WiredJa Staff  |  February 2026

The courtroom tension was thick enough to cut — much like, according to Guyana's Leader of the Opposition, the tyres that nearly cost him his freedom on Monday.

Azruddin Mohamed arrived approximately thirty minutes late for the resumption of his extradition committal proceedings before Principal Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrate's Courts, triggering a dramatic sequence of events that saw him briefly subjected to an arrest warrant, threatened with bail forfeiture, and ultimately released — but not before a stinging judicial dressing-down that laid bare the combustible intersection of law and politics in today's Guyana.