A Trinidad and Tobago mother is again calling for answers as the disappearance of her 21-year-old son in Antigua approaches the one-year mark, with no confirmed leads and no public alert issued by authorities.
According to Antigua News Room, Candy Vasquez recently marked her son Thomas's birthday without him, describing the occasion as "very hard" as uncertainty about his fate continues to weigh on the family.
Thomas travelled to Antigua for work and vanished on the morning of April 15 during a visit to a farm in Glanville's Piars, where he had gone to work alongside a friend. Nearly a year later, his mother reports no contact and no confirmed sighting.
Vasquez has raised concerns about the level of attention the case has received, pointing out that police have yet to issue an official missing persons alert despite the extended period her son has been unaccounted for.
She said she contacted Police Commissioner Everton Jeffers after learning of efforts to bring in outside assistance for cold cases. She was reportedly told, however, that Thomas's case remains an active investigation and has not been classified as a cold case.
Over the past year, Vasquez added, fragments of unconfirmed information have only deepened her fears about what may have happened to her son.
Despite the prolonged uncertainty, she continues to appeal to the public for assistance, insisting that "someone, somewhere, knows something" about Thomas's disappearance.
