Go-Jamaica Weather Watch

A reader gave us these photographs of a crocodile which might have been trying to escape from Hurricane Dean on Sunday night. However the crocodile never contended with the residents of Portland Cottage, Clarendon. Encountering the crocodile they duly chopped and shot to the creature to death.

However those residents should be aware that crocodiles are a protected species in Jamaica and that the Wildlife Protection Act of 1971 prohibits the hunting, capturing or killing of the reptile. It is also illegal to have in your possession, the whole or any part of the crocodile.

Disobeying the law is punishable with a $100,000 fine or 12 months imprisonment.