"Yu nah go si mi face again," cried a mother of five who tried to smuggle drugs out of the island to earn money to finance her children's graduation, to Resident Magistrate Winsome Henry, as she begged for leniency.

Ivy Brown, 37, of Kingston 13, pleaded guilty with explanation to charges of possession, dealing and attempting to export ganja before the Montego Bay RM Court on Thursday.

An emotional Brown said her twin daughters were graduating from primary school and would be entering a prominent high school in Kingston. She said she had no money to finance their graduation, let alone their high school needs.

She explained that she was introduced to someone who gave her the contra-band to take to Curaçao.

She was granted $10,000 bail with surety and is to report to the Hunts Bay police on Tuesdays. She returns to court on July 30 for sentencing.