THE Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) has joined in mourning the loss of 73-year-old Terrence Holder, a former Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) and Deputy General Manager of Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T), who passed away last Wednesday. 

In a press release, the association said, “The passing of Terrence (Terry) Holder, though not sudden, has cast a pall over the entire Board of Directors of the GMSA and our membership”.
“He had become a fixture on the Board since the mid 1990s as the representative of the GT&T. Terry served as Vice President responsible for Public Communications for more than six years before he demitted office due to his ill health,” it stated.
The GMSA described Holder, who is also a veteran broadcaster, as an “outstanding member, dependable and always articulate”.
“The GMSA has benefitted tremendously from the polite and appealing approach he brought to internal, national, and international situations and programmes, and from his broad expertise in verbal and written communication and programme planning,” it added.
“Terry represented extremely high standards in every aspect of his work for the GMSA, and the association has not missed an opportunity to express its gratitude to him, tangibly and intangibly, for more than a decade of dedication,” the association said.
It added further, “Our appreciation is even greater considering that he was able to offer the same level of service to the GCB, the Rotary Club, and a number of other local and regional non-governmental organisations”.
“He was a kind man who never passed on a chance to help. Terry loved life and embraced all of it, the good and the challenging, with quiet industriousness, and when kudos were being given out, he stepped aside and allowed others to receive,” the release went on.
“Terry Holder will not be easily forgotten; he has touched too many lives; given a hands-up to too many people; and unselfishly shared his life’s passion for communications in all its diversity with correctness and steady determination. He has, certainly, secured a place in the annals of the GMSA,” the association stated.