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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Cheeky monkey makes mischief in Golconda community

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This cute and cheeky monkey has been on the run for three months, eating fruit from trees and turning these mud piles at Ridgewood Gardens, Golconda into its personal playground. Game wardens have been contacted, but are yet to capture the furry fugitive. It’s owner is said to be from the Ste Madeleine Trainline.

This cute and cheeky monkey has been on the run for three months, eating fruit from trees and turning these mud piles at Ridgewood Gardens, Golconda into its personal playground. Game wardens have been contacted, but are yet to capture the furry fugitive. It’s owner is said to be from the Ste Madeleine Trainline.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

A mis­chie­vous mon­key has turned the Ridge­wood Gar­dens, Gol­con­da com­mu­ni­ty in­to its per­son­al play­ground, leap­ing and dart­ing on mud piles left be­hind af­ter a pipe-lay­ing project.

Guardian Me­dia was in­formed that the mon­key, which es­caped its own­er three months ago, was spot­ted near the WASA treat­ment plant hold­ing a stick in its mouth, al­most as if it were a cig­a­rette.

Dogs in the com­mu­ni­ty were in an up­roar as the mon­key played on the dirt heap, dart­ing in and out of vines grow­ing on the edge of a con­crete cul­vert.

Res­i­dents con­tact­ed Hunters Search and Res­cue cap­tain Val­lence Ramb­harat who said mon­keys are usu­al­ly dif­fi­cult to ap­pre­hend. He ex­plained that game war­dens typ­i­cal­ly need to tran­quil­lise them be­fore cap­tur­ing them.

A per­son fa­mil­iar with the mon­key said it has been roam­ing var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ties since es­cap­ing its own­er at the Ste Madeleine Train­line near Vic­to­ria Vil­lage.

He said pri­or to the mon­key’s es­cape, it en­joyed pulling out mar­i­jua­na plants from res­i­dents’ homes. Game war­dens were alert­ed by res­i­dents and have been search­ing for the mon­key.


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