by WENDY BURKE

TERRY MAYERS, 40, broadcaster and radio announcer, died at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday after suffering an asthma attack two Fridays ago.

Spokeswoman for the family Francine Alexander-Charles told the DAILY NATION doctors attending Mayers informed the family he died of complications due to a severe asthma attack.

Mayers, a former Lodge School student, worked in several areas of the media, beginning at the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in 1989 as a trainee radio announcer. He became a radio announcer and did several high-profile outside broadcasts in the areas of politics, culture and natural disaster before transferring to the sports department in 1996.

He left CBC in 2003 and formed his own media company in 2004, Amaya Productions.

He was also on the administrative end of sports, serving as the communications and marketing officer for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 and most recently as public relations manager with the Barbados Olympic Association.

Mayers leaves to mourn his wife Janelle, baby son Terrence, father Walter, mother Julia, sister Rachelle and brother Stuart Mayers.