MOTHER and daughter, Shirley and Nurley Augustus, both Haitian nationals were fined $30,000 with an alternative of one month jail by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan after they admitted to entering Guyana illegally.Thirty-eight year old Shirley and her 22- year – old daughter, Nurley pleaded guilty to the charge which stated that on December 4, 2015 at Lethem they entered Guyana by crossing a land frontier without presenting themselves to an immigration officer.

According to the unrepresented women they came to Guyana via the Lethem trail by bus and while in Guyana they stayed at a house in Light Street, Georgetown. Nurley pointed out that she had spent three years in Brazil, studying at a university there.

The two women begged the Magistrate for leniency and said that when they arrived in Guyana there was no immigration officer in Lethem.

Police Prosecutor, Corporal Deniro Jones explained to the court that Nurley is the holder of a Haitian Passport, while the mother told police that she lost hers sometime in December, 2015.

The prosecutor pointed out that both women were arrested by police ranks during a raid at their Light Street home on June 27. The ranks had asked the woman to produce their passport when it was discovered that Nurley did not have any entry stamp to Guyana on the document, while her mother claimed that she had lost hers.

The Investigating rank, who was also present in court, disclosed that the police are currently making an application at the Immigration department to have the women immediately deported to Haiti.