We saw him surrounded by handcarts, hammering away at the wheels of one of them.

His name is John Pryce and he can be called the handcart man of the Port Antonio market. He builds, repairs and rents handcarts from his base at the back of the Port Antonio market.

"I go by the hardware, buy old board, make the wheels, everything. Yuh si, living is a mus'," he said. He doesn't see his work as demeaning labour but rather something from a higher calling.

"My work is to fulfil the works of the Almighty. Every man deh yah pon di earth fi do im t'ing. So dis a my t'ing," he said.

Pryce went on to explain that, based on the Christian teachings, any honest work was good work, hence his conclusion. But how did he get started?

"A inspiration yuh know. I see other men were doing it and I jus' feel seh mi can do it too. I have neva had no training," he explained.

Pryce's mother sells coal not too far from his work area while he works to support his two children.

"From yuh have yute and yuh a work, dat haffi support dem," he said. We asked him about Port Antonio and he paused before painting a grim picture.

"Nutt'n nuh good bout di capital but dat a jus wheh mi experience," he said. "Anadda man might seh sump'n else." He felt that much of the negatives came from those who prefer a less holy way of life.

"A peer (pure) wickedness mi see a gwaan yah now!" he lamented.

We asked if there was any hope and he said there was, on one condition.

"Dem (people) haffi waan change though," he warned.

Dale Westin, general manager of the Errol Flynn Marina, talks about some of the benefits of the marina.

A section of the Errol Flynn Marina.

It's hard work but John Pryce prefers to make a living the honest way.