Exotic dancers fined for overstaying, illegal entry

Lydia Valero

Ten Latin American women, who have been working as exotic dancers at the Baroombar nightclub, were yesterday fined for immigration offences.

The women, through an interpreter, pleaded guilty to the respective charges against them when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, where Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry imposed a $30,000 fine with an alternative of six months’ imprisonment on each of them.

Catalane Osario, 21, of the Dominican Republic; Marcelle Arianna, 25, of Colombia; Patricia Ortega, 20, of the Dominican Republic; Canella Ramirez, 21, of Venezuela; Yacline Puertez, 32, of Panama; Britannia Cortez, 32, of the Dominican Republic, and Juana German, 20, of the Dominican Republic, admitted to