How’s this for a bit of the history of gambling in Jamaica. On March 20, 1944, Phillip Wong of a Duke Street address in Kingston, pleaded guilty in court to a breach of the Gambling Law (namely – selling peaka pow tickets). He was fined £20 or three months in prison. Wong was arrested during a raid that was led by an “Inspector Lindop” at premises on nearby Orange Street on February 24, 1944.
Source: Gleaner Archives (This Day In Our Past)
My mother and grandmother were real Peaka pow players.they would play the morning game and the afternoon game and would take me to read the results with them early in the morning and late afternoon.i soon became fixed on the game and at the age of 10 i was an expert reader of the game and started to hide and put in my marks.it was then that i found out that my father was one of the original Peaka pow sellers and player..
BY THE WAY IS THE GAME STILL PLAYED IN JAMAICA?