KINGSTON, Jamaica (CMC) – Two Guyanese nationals were sentenced to 10 months hard labour on Friday after they were held at the Sangster International Airport on April 4 with a total of 21 pounds of cocaine.

The women, who are cousins, were arrested and charged after they sought to transport the cocaine, which has a street value of J$120 million, onto a flight destined for London. The drugs were found in false compartments in the women’s luggage.

Oshaura Moses, a 21-year-old nail technician, and Abiki Moses, a 27-year-old cook, were each sentenced when they made a brief appearance before presiding parish judge Sasha-Marie Ashley at the St James Parish Court.

The women pleaded guilty to the charges of possession of, dealing in, and attempting to export cocaine. But they pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiracy to export cocaine.

This saw a no-evidence motion being entered by the prosecution in relation to that offence.

Despite pleading guilty to the charge of dealing in cocaine, the women were admonished and discharged by the court for that offence.

In addition to the mandatory 10-month sentence, the women were each ordered to pay a fine of one million dollars or six months on the possession charge and J$500,000 or six months on the attempting to export charge.