Eight Jamaican women who were arrested following a police raid at a West Bay Street strip club in the Bahamas have been fined and ordered to return home.
The Bahamas Tribune reported that some of the women were accused of working as exotic dancers in an unlicensed strip club.
Club owner, Dennis Halamino and Bahamian, Chantel Hill were offered bail in the sum of seven thousand, 500 dollars, with two sureties.
They're booked to return to court on January 18 next year.
Mr. Halamino owns at least three other clubs in New Providence.
The eight Jamaican women were each ordered to pay court fines ranging from one thousand five hundred dollars to two thousand five hundred.
Deputy Chief Magistrate, Carolita Bethel, advised the women to seek an honest living in their own country.
During the trial, the prosecution presented several graphic accounts based on the testimony of undercover officers on the night the club was shut down.
Immigration officials also testified that all of the women had, at some point, obtained fraudulent extension of stay stamps.
The women refused to say who gave them the fake stamps.
Each of them pleaded guilty to the charges, which ranged from overstaying their permitted time in the Bahamas, soliciting prostitution, and working without the proper documents.
The women were nabbed during an operation on September 8.
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