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Mother Pleads for Answers in Disappearance of Son in Antigua
The mother of a missing Trinidadian man is pleading for answers more than a month after his disappearance in Antigua and Barbuda.
Candy Jageshar last heard from her 21-year-old son, Thomas Vasquez, on April 13, 2025, before he left Trinidad for Antigua.
He had planned a short visit and was picked up at the airport by his employer, Andre Solomon, to return to a farm in Glanville where he had previously worked.
Vasquez was reportedly last seen on April 15, and both his distinctive yellow suitcase and grey backpack are also missing.
His mother said he had lost his phone before departing Trinidad, and she believes he was growing vegetables—not marijuana, as some have claimed.
Jageshar described a troubling phone call with Solomon, saying: “He told me, ‘Tommy good, don’t worry,’ but then later, from a strange number, warned me to stop talking about him or he’d ‘expose’ Thomas.”
The case gained national attention after Prime Minister Gaston Browne commented that Vasquez may have been involved in drug trafficking.
“It is well known that this young man travelled here consistently by plane and then left clandestinely by boat,” Browne said, while also expressing sympathy to the family.
Jageshar rejected the claim and questioned why no action was taken if such suspicions existed.
“How could you have this young man, according to you, pedalling drugs and you did nothing about it?”
She also criticised the lack of urgency from local authorities, saying: “If there was an Antiguan missing in Trinidad, believe you me, it would have been top of the headlines.”
Thomas Vasquez is described as six feet tall, brown-skinned, with a chipped front tooth. His mother is holding on to hope. “I don’t want to think that Thomas is… you know what. I want to keep my hope alive.”
The investigation remains open.
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No mother deserve to go through this. Need atleast closure. But still havent had any closure on all the other missing people. Antigua is becoming a bit of nightmare to live in, the cost of living is already high and now it seems like ppl going missing regularly.
How many weeks have gone by since we heard of a decomposing body found in the swetes area? Yet we can’t hear anything else from this body found. Antiguans are holding on to strings the way informations take a lifestyle to come out. WHO DOES THE DECOMPOSED BODY BELONG TO?
Crying families and shattered glasses. A mother’s cry is evident! Someone is or should be held responsible for Thomas disappearance. We let every disappearance go by so quickly and to date we are still doing it. This is becoming a trend and we have to do better than this. As a nation, as a country, as the authority.
They didn’t say two people were arrested in connection with this case? What’s the latest?
If you don’t safe guard and protect yourself, you will round up missing and your family will remain hurting.
A mother’s cry is something not even the sun can dry! Hearing that lady beginning to cry over that phone has shaken me a bit. She’s away and hurting with no answers. The boss comments are beyond sus, but the authorities are not going to look into matters like these. So many people has disappeared without a clue and here is a mother trying to cope with the shattering news that her son is yet to be seen. Question tho, where could the luggage be? Could it be that this young man left by boat, according to PM Browne and is in another country with no means of connection as she said he lost his phone before leaving Trinidad? Mr. Gaston, if you knew this young man was smuggling drugs our the country by boat and then coming in by plane, why wasn’t there any arrest made or why wasn’t he sent away from the country for good? Could the boss be a main in suspect in this case? So many questions, who’s going to answer?
He is missing, what if he is not missing in Antigua, based on what we have heard about his movements? He comes in by plane and then leaves by boat, and he was working on a marijuana farm which had no license to operate.
@ Hannah, that body found in Sweetes was BURIED LONG TIME AGO. No funeral home took him he was badly decomposing. They said stab wounds, so they say. And forensic evidence was collected before they bury him oh boy. My question is nobody reported a missing person? Did he not have family here? Do they know who he is?
Mr PM if this was a known fact about the young man, coming by plane leaving by boat, why nothing was done?
Amazing story. Congrats guys
Yet another wonderful production by antigua.news. keep up the good work. Unless you are a mother you cannot understand the depth of her hurt. Whether he went missing from Antigua or somewhere else…his final legal place of arrival was Antigua. So this is where we have to look out for him first. Where else can we look but Antigua? We have no proof that he left the country. The proof is that he entered. How does one dissappear in thin air? If he was making a drop off where is his suitcase? I would think he would leave his luggage behind. Something is not adding up.
Justice for this poor guy
They need scoutlandyard to come in antigua why take so long is it have to do with people in high places Involve and make it worst antigua need help
Too many of these missing persons in Antigia. I use to hear alot of these in bigger countries like the US. But when it is so close to home it feels a different type of way. I hope the this mother finds closure. It’s a really sad situation down there in little antigua
Passo. Remember I told you so. These investigators are jokers. Sent forensic samples overseas. When clearly they saw it was passo. Came depend on these jokers for justice
These stories are truly hearts breaking. Last week we saw this woman Roman mother. I believe they are from Russia.8 years and this woman is still searching for her son. Chances are he isn’t alive. How can any mother truly ever forget her child? I pray for all mothers of this land to find peace. I’m speaking directly to those with children they have lost
I totally agree
They will never bring Scotland Yard in for fear the truth comes out about the greed and corruption in Antigua and the people in high places involved.
These people who are involved in the disappearance to all missing persons, how can they live with themselves? Do they have a conscience? How they sleep at night? Do they have children of their own?
I thought anyone visiting the island should have a return ticket. Does he have a work permit? If not, he should have a return ticket. His return ticket is for returning on a boat instead of a plane, I guess.
Dear Mother. Yes. Your son was an Altar Boy. Don’t you understand that your son, his employer and the illegal weed farm were under surveillance for quite a while. All of this started when Immigration realised that your son was arriving legally but never leaving legally. But in any case, your son is a small fish. It was the shark or sharks that they wanted.
Lord, mi heart go out to she. Mi cyan imagine wah she going through.
Praying Thomas is found safe. No parent should have to endure this pain.
If anybody know anything, even small—please talk up. Silence killing she slowly.
This kind of story should shake the whole nation. We can’t normalize people disappearing.
Mi praying hard. God guide him and bring peace to di family.
Someone knows something. Please have the courage to speak up.
Imagine going to sleep every night not knowing if your child alive. That’s torment.
No one deserves to just disappear without a trace. We can’t rest until Thomas is found.
Sending strength to the family. The whole country should be rallying around this.
If you hiding something, remember: karma real. Do the right thing.
No one deserves to just disappear without a trace. We can’t rest until Thomas is found.
i really dont like how the police is going about that situation…. After what happent with Chantel … The police should putting all theri effort in locating this boy..
Why hasnt his mother come to Antigua??