Grove woman charged with trafficking girl, 16, for labour

A Plantation Grove woman was yesterday placed on $650,000 bail by a city court after she denied a charge that she trafficked an underage girl for labour exploitation.

Joyce Lawrence, 43, of 306 Track X, Plantation Grove, was read three indictable charges by Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan yesterday.

The first charge stated that Lawrence, between July 1, 2014 and December 12, 2014, at a nightclub, at Aishalton, South Rupununi, engaged in trafficking in persons, whereby she recruited and harboured the girl by