26/05/2026
"๐๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐๐ ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐
๐พ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐ด๐๐๐ 70"
For 48 years, Margrate Walcott has made her living from the sea; not on it, but beside it at the Meadow Bank Wharf. Born on August 24, 1960, she comes from a family rooted deeply in the fishing trade. Her mother was a fish vendor, her father a fisherman and from that foundation she built a life of her own at the wharf.
๐๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐ซ๐๐๐
Margrate has been selling fish since her school days, learning early the rhythm of early mornings, long nights and the steady demand of customers who depend on the seaโs daily catch. For her, it is tradition of survival passed down through her bloodline.
๐๐ข๐๐, ๐๐จ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ
A mother of one son, Margrate has strong views on relationships and marriage. When asked if she was ever married, she laughed it off. โNah, marriage does get yuh tie up. Yuh does get married when yuh meet 70,โ she said.
She speaks openly about trust and disappointment in relationships, warning that appearances can be deceiving. โYuh might trust this person and when you trust de person, they deh undercover,โ she explained.
๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ฒ๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฒ
Despite lifeโs lessons, her focus has always remained on work. โItโs a profitable business, I love to work,โ she said simply. That dedication is visible in her routine as she often arrives at the wharf as early as 7pm the night before, waiting for fishermen returning from sea so she can secure the best catch for her customers.
Her knife moves with speed and precision, shaped by decades of repetition at the wharf. Customers return often, she says, because she โtreat them good.โ
For Margrate, the wharf represents her lifetime carved in ice, steel and resilience.
