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TRINIDAD GUARDIAN: The mother of a 21-year-old man who has been missing in Antigua and Barbuda for the last 22 days is appealing to anyone with information to speak up.
Candy Jageshar Vasquez said her son, Thomas Jageshar, spent the last nine months travelling back and forth to the Caribbean island to work on a marijuana farm. She said the last time he returned home was on April 6 because his work permit expired but he left one week later (April 13).
“I know he going Monday morning. I ask him what time, he said ‘Mummy by 9 o’clock I should be in Antigua’. So I see 10 o’clock, 11 o’clock going so I message him but the message had only one tick,” she revealed.
Jageshar Vasquez said she was later informed by one of his friends in Trinidad that he arrived at his destination safely but lost his phone the night before his trip.
The mother of one said she did not see that as a red flag because he often lost his cellphones. Since then, however, she said has received limited information on her son’s whereabouts.
She said she knew he used someone’s cellphone to call his two friends in Antigua to let them know he was back there. Jageshar Vasquez said she was told her son spent was dropped off where he worked the next morning after arriving on the island.
“They took him back to the farm Tuesday morning around 9 or 10 since after that, that was the last time that anybody has ever seen or heard from him,” she said.
She confirmed that since his disappearance, his employer and the friends who dropped him to the farm had been questioned by police.
The worried mother said a group called Concerned Citizens of A&B have been helping with the approximately 3,000-mile search. However, she has been unable to join due to lack of documentation and funds.
“Antigua police have not contacted me, no one from Antigua, the commissioner, the Attorney General, nobody has called me and told me anything concerning my son… I’ve reached out,” she said.
At a media conference last week, Antigua’s acting Commissioner of Police Everton Jeffers pleaded with the public to help them find the 21-year-old.
Deputy police commissioner Wade Albert SNR added that a full complement of officers would be deployed into a unit to search for the missing man.
Guardian Media reached out to new Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs, Sean Sobers, who confirmed that the Ministry asked for a status update on the matter and would communicate with Jageshar’s mother when more information was forthcoming.
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You said your son has been coming to antigua back and fort for the past nine months, you also said he was back in trinidad because his permit was expired, but work permits usually take a year to expire, and i dont know about you but id have a problem with my 21 year old son going to a syrange island to work on marijuana farm , but i hope your son is return to you safe
The saga of missing persons in Antigua and Barbuda has gotten wide coverage not just locally and regionally but internationally as well. The number of people who vanish in Antigua is disproportionately high for a small 108 square miles island. These cases of missing persons are not random acts and suggests a serious crisis in Antigua and Barbuda. Regrettably I think that there is a lack of will locally to fully investigate the reasons behind all this and our local police force is woefully under resourced and seriously ineffective in their efforts. These missing cases saga have the impact of adversely affecting our tourism product if not addressed quickly and succinctly. People here know something and are keeping quiet. Until it involves a close family of theirs they might not understand the seriousness of this issue. I feel the agony and pain of this dear mother.
I feel for this mother wi… Smh I hope that he is safe
After what happen to Chantel i thought the government would take more action… SMH… This a foreign child … lost in Antigua and no one is doing nothing expect the mother
Everything is Antigua. Regrettably, it is extremely sad that this boy cannot be found, bit something is strangely amiss with this missing person. I’m just not understanding if the mother knowingly let her son come to our island to work on a marijuana farm, especially knowing it might very well be illegal. Also, who did he come to?
We also have a mindset in this country where we want crimes to be solved, but nobody wants to give up the information they have. So tell me where we go from here?
I believe something sinister is at play, the level of evil and corruption that goes is unprecedented and the innocent is paying the price and it will continue until we do right, the disappearances, the shootings and other criminal activities is a result of it
He’s 21. He makes his own decisions. His mother has no control.