It was around two this afternoon that I heard the news. Journalist Terry Mayers had passed away, after being hospitalised and on life support for the last two weeks after a severe asthma attack on May 2.
I knew Terry through my work in the media, particularly my coverage of cricket. I got to know him better last year leading up to and during the ICC Cricket World Cup which I covered, when he was the media relations officer for the local Organising Committee.
Simply put, Terry's ambition and energy was inspiring. Particularly to me as a younger journalist it was instructive to see how he managed to successfully balance so many different freelance media roles and had really come into his own and was in control of his own destiny as a journalist, rather than trodding the safer road of sticking with a large company and rising through the ranks. He worked with the LOC, he worked with CMC, he was eagerly looking forward to covering the Beijing Olympics, he was the PR man for the Barbados Olympic Association... Terry stayed on his hustle boy! It was a sight to see. And he never gave off the vibe of being frazzled or overwhelmed by his multiple roles - he was good at them all and cool and affable and collected.
His passing is definitely a loss not just to the Barbadian journalistic fraternity but to the Caribbean journalistic community.
Fare thee well Terry. God be with you.
1 comments:
he would always be remembered for his homour
may he rest in peace
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